Amia: Why Informatics? Podcasts

Host: Leyla B. Warsame, MD, Clinical Informatics Fellow, Geisinger  Guest Interview: Pagan Kennedy, Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times This series draws attention to the stories of historical women and how their contributions continue to affect today’s world, including those whose contributions were not recognized at the time, corrects the historical record, provides inspiration for current generations, and suggests contemporary lessons for working scientists. In 1972, a homeless shelter volunteer began to realize the prevalence of rape among the women she was working with. The volunteer, Marty Goddard, also realized that these rapes were rarely prosecuted because of a lack of coordination between hospitals and police. Her brilliant idea was the group of checklists, procedures, and evidence containers now called the rape kit. Her idea changed the medico-legal landscape and helped bring justice for thousands of victims. Yet it became successful only after a man patented and promoted it.

Host: Karmen S. Williams, DrPH, MBA,Assistant Professor at the City University of New York in the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Dr. Williams is also the director of ‘For Your Informatics’ podcast, Co-Chair of the Pipeline Subcommittee of Women in AMIA, and the Chair of the Dental Informatics Working Group. Guest Interviews:  Vicki Hertzberg, PhD American biostatistician, who is currently a professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing of Emory University, where she founded and continues to direct its Center for Data Science. She is an internationally recognized expert on “big data” and its impact on health care. She is widely known for her work measuring social contacts that enable disease transmission in emergency departments and on airplanes. Andi Plotsky, MSPH Serves as the Director of Database Projects for the Nell Hodgson School of Nursing at Emory University and the lead database architect for Project NeLL.  Andi is lead database architect of Project NeLL and manages a t

Host: Maria Adela Grando, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Arizona State University and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Her area of expertise in patient-centered technology. Guest Interview: Scott McGrath, PhD, Clinical Informatics Education Specialist at Providence St. Joseph Health, and the chair of the AMIA Student Working Group  

Host: Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Guest Interview: Rebecca Grochow Mishuris, MD, MS, MPH Chief Medical Information Officer at Boston Medical Center Health System, the largest safety-net hospital in New England. Also, she is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.  

Host: Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Guest Interview: Dr. Suzanne B. Bakken, RN, DNSc, FAAN, FACMI Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. She has conducted federally-funded clinical informatics research for more than 25 years. She currently serves as Director of the Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved and of the Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics Pre- and Post-doctoral Training Program, both supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research. Dr. Bakken is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and American College of Medical Informatics and a member of the Institute of Medicine. 

Host: Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Guest Interview: Dr. Hongfang Liu, PhD, Consultant, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Sciences Research, Chair, Division of Digital Health Sciences, Department of Health Sciences Research, Professor, Biomedical Informatics Dr. Hongfang Liu's in informatics has resulted in informatics systems that unlock clinical information stored in clinical narratives. Her work accelerates the pace of knowledge discovery, implementation and delivery for improved health care. Dr. Liu's primary research is to facilitate the secondary use of clinical data for clinical and translational science research and health care delivery improvement using data science, artificial intelligence and informatics approaches. Dr. Liu's research has been extensively funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health (NIH) since 2003. Dr. Liu is a member of seve

Host: Dr. Randa Perkins, MD, FAMIA Randa Perkins, MD is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Moffitt Cancer Center. In her role as CMIO she is responsible for contributing to the long-term vision of IT health systems at Moffitt, and the Clinical Informatics Department, which facilitates both implementation and optimization of the electronic health record (EHR) and its various uses.  Guest Interview: Dr. Thankam P. Thyvalikakath, DMD, MDS, PhD Dr. Thankam Thyvalikakath is a biomedical informatics researcher and dentist. She is Director of the dental informatics core initiative at the Indiana University School of Dentistry. The core’s primary objective is to enhance patient care through improved data capture, documentation and analysis of electronic health record data. Dr. Thyvalikakath’s research focuses on leveraging electronic health record data for clinical research and quality improvement purposes; applying user-centered design and cognitive engineering methods to design clinical systems that b

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, is a Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Guest Interview: Dr. Emily Webber, MD, FAAP, FAMIA, is the chief medical information officer at Riley Children’s Health and Associate CMIO for Indiana University (IU) Health. She is a pediatric hospitalist at Riley Hospital for Children and also is focused on the optimization of health IT, applications to improve quality care and patient safety and promoting the health of Indiana children and communities.

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, is a Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Guest Interview: Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NLM is the world’s largest biomedical library and the producer of digital information services used by scientists, health professionals and members of the public worldwide. Since assuming the directorship in August 2016, Dr. Brennan has positioned the Library to be the hub of data science at NIH and a national and international leader in the field. She spearheaded the development of a new strategic plan that envisions NLM a platform for biomedical discovery and data-powered health.  Leveraging NLM’s heavily used data and information resources, intramural research, and extramural research and training programs, Brennan aims for NLM to accelerate data-driven discovery and health, engage with new users in new ways, and develop the

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, is a Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Guest Interview: Peter Embi, MD, is the President and CEO of Regenstrief Institute. He is a research scientist, an associate dean at Indiana University School of Medicine, and Vice President for Learning Health Systems at IU Health in Indianapolis.  In addition, he was the chair of the board of directors here at AMIA from 2018-19.  

Hosts: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, is a Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Randa Perkins, MD, FAMIA, is the Chief Medical Information Officer at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. Guest Interviews: Wendy Chapman, PhD, Associate Dean for Digital Health and Informatics and a Director of a new Centre for Clinical and Public Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne in Australia. She is also the founding chair of the Women in AMIA Committee. Tiffani J. Bright, PhD, Biomedical Informatician Evaluation Research Team Lead at IBM Watson. Dr. Bright supports the Watson Health Evaluation Research Center by providing technical, informatics, and evaluative leadership in the design, development, and execution of evaluation research for Watson Health products.  

Host: Pamela Garcia-Filion, PhD, MPH, a research scientist and associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine  Guest Interview: Gondy Leroy, PhD, Professor, Management Information Systems, University of Arizona Dr. Leroy joined the Eller College of Management in 2013. Before coming to Eller, she taught at Claremont Graduate College, which she joined after earning her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona in 2003. Her areas of expertise include natural language processing, text mining, text analytics, search engines, information retrieval and extraction and understanding by consumers, medical and biomedical informatics and human computer interaction and user studies. She is a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.  Topics:Natural Language Processing Importance of data sharing Transdisciplinary research How to navigate the

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health  Guest Interview: Lisa Moon, PhD, RN, Healthcare Consultant, Interim CIO, and Board Member at Advocacy Consulting for Healthcare. Dr. Moon is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with over 30 years of nursing experience. She is an expert in designing healthcare for the future with the focus on consumerism.  Topics:  Nursing informatics Policy Consulting Consumer centered systems and data

Host: Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Psychiatric Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health  Guest Interview: Tiffani J. Bright, PhD, Biomedical Informatician Evaluation Research Team Lead at IBM Watson. Dr. Bright supports the Watson Health Evaluation Research Center by providing technical, informatics, and evaluative leadership in the design, development, and execution of evaluation research for Watson Health products. Topics: Finding your larger vision Translating research to practice Making the circle larger through outreach

Host: Jessica S. Ancker, MPH, PhD, FACMI, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Healthcare Policy & Research at Weill Cornell Medical College, NYC. Guest Interview: Omolola I. Ogunyemi, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Preventive and Social Medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) and Director of CDU’s Center for Biomedical Informatics. She currently leads an NLM-funded study that applies machine learning to clinical records to identify diabetic patients who have latent/undiagnosed diabetic retinopathy.  Her short stories are published in various literary magazines. Topics: Career Trajectory Research Projects Publishing Fiction

Host: Randa Perkins, MD, FAMIA, is the Chief Medical Information Officer at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. Guest Interview: Wendy W. Chapman, PhD, University of Utah, is the founding chair of the Women in AMIA Committee and talks about her outlook on confidence and the role mentors and sponsors play in that. Topics: Confidence and Competence Mentorship vs Sponsorship

Host: Merida Johns PhD, Founder and Director, The Monarch Center for Women's Leadership Development   Co-Host: Catherine K. Craven, PhD, MA, MLS, Senior Clinical Research Informaticist, Clinical Informatics Group, IT Department, Mount Sinai Health System, and Institute for Health Care Delivery Science, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, NY Guest Interviews: Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD, is a Professor at the Information School and Discovery Fellow attached to the Virtual Environments Group at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was an NLM Medical Informatics Trainee at the Center (now Department) of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, from which she received her MSIS and PhD.   Wanda Pratt, PhD, is a Professor in the Information School with an adjunct appointment in the Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics in the Medical School at the University of Washington. Topics: Mentoring

Host: Randa Perkins, MD, FAMIA, is the Chief Medical Information Officer at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. Guest Interview: Carol Friedman, PhD, FACMI, is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. She is also the 2017 AMIA Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence winner, which is only awarded to the most distinguished informaticians. Dr. Friedman is recognized within the biomedical domain as a pioneer in Natural Language Processing (NLP). She was the first researcher to demonstrate the value of NLP for a broad range of clinical and biomedical applications, and was also one of the first to demonstrate that a general NLP system could be used to improve patient care. She has more than 125 publications and has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics, the National Academy of Medicine, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She has also been honored with the AMIA Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Biomedical Informatics.  Topics: Natural language processi