AMIA: Why Informatics? Podcasts

Host: Leyla Warsame, MD Guests: Josh Vest, PhD and Tiffany Harman, MSN Description: This episode revisits a discussion on social determinants of health with our experts at the 2023 AMIA Annual Symposium. This reflection focuses on addressing SDOH from the healthcare organization to the individual level, budget impacts, and making informatics strategy actionable.

Host: Karmen S. Williams, DrPH, MBA, MSPH, MA, CPH, Assistant Professor, City University of New York Guest: Peter Tippett, MD, PhD, CEO, careMESH Description: Listen in on our fireside chat with a true pioneer in the informatics field. Dr. Peter Tippett discusses his career from clinical practice to startup to the White House.

Host: Leyla Warsame, MD, M Health Fairview Guest: Manijeh Berenji, MD, MPH, UC Irvine, VA Long Beach Description: This conversation discusses real-world practice and research in environmental and public health informatics with the chair-elect of the Climate, Health, and Informatics Working Group, leader of the Public Health Informatics Working Group, and 2024 AMIA Leadership Award Recipient. #WomensHistoryMonth

Host: Dr. Leyla Warsame, ACMIO, M Health Fairview Guest: Jays'on Davidson, PhD Candidate, UCSF Description: Listen in to this episode with PhD Candidate Jays'on Davidson on his educational path to informatics and his work with data and social determinants of health.

Host: Vivian Hui, RN, BSN, PhD Guests: Bill Hersh, MD, FACMI, FAMIA Wendy Chapman, PhD; Jay Patel, BDS,MS, PhD Description: Recorded live at the 2024 AMIA Annual Symposium, join our experts on this episode as they explore the excitement and hesitancy of AI in healthcare.

Host: Karmen S. Williams, DrPH, MBA Guests: Humayera Islam, PhD, University of Chicago Description: This conversation focuses on the current leader of AMIA's Student Working Group, Dr. Humayera Islam, "Where the future leaders of AMIA are in making". Join the AMIA Student Working Group via the AMIA website https://amia.org/community/working-groups/student, LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/amia-stwg, and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AMIAStudentWorkingGroup.

Host: Anita Murcko, MD, FAMIA Guests: Denis Newman-Griffis, PhD, MSc, University of Sheffield Description:In celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (and Disability Awareness Month in March), listen in on this exciting discussion that intersects AI, disability, and responsible design. Dr. Newman-Griffis describes their work as "Designing ethical AI systems to improve equity of all populations".  

Host: Leyla Warsame, MD Guest: Dr. Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, MBA, Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute Description: More and more we are seeing the urgent need to discuss and address climate change and its effects on health. We are joined by a pioneer in biomedical informatics to discuss Climate Health in Informatics. "The Climate, Health and Informatics Working Group is committed to supporting AMIA in its vital role in applying informatics to facilitate action addressing climate change and its negative impacts on human health https://amia.org/community/working-groups/climate-health-and-informatics

Host: Leyla Warsame, MD Guests: Dr. Heidi Twedt, MD, ACMIO/Program Director, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Dr. Peter Kleinschmidt, MD, Internal Medicine Physician, Clinical Informatics Director of Quality and Safety, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Health Description: Listen in on this episode for an insightful dive into the world of Electronic Health Record (EHR) documentation! In this episode, we unravel the complexities of note bloat – the challenge healthcare providers face when recording patients' crucial information. Discover the innovative strategies and future initiatives aimed at tackling note bloat head-on. Tune in to stay ahead in the evolving landscape of healthcare documentation!

Hosts: Dr. Sabrina Hsueh, Director of Ethical AI and External Innovation, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Dr. Karmen S. Williams, Assistant Professor, CUNY SPH Guest: Dr. Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader Description: In this episode of the Association of Computing Machinery and AMIA Joint Podcast Series, we learn more about the career trajectory and the global outlook on artificial intelligence outlook through our chat with an IBM fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader, Dr. Francesca Rossi. You can also listen on ACM - https://learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep53-francesca-rossi.

Hosts: Leyla Warsame, MD Guest: Dr. Terika McCall, PhD, MPH, MBA, Yale School of Public Health Description: The Consumer Health Informatics Lab at Yale University is engaging in cutting-edge research and practice tailored to the consumer. In this episode, we delve into the latest breakthroughs and insights at the intersection of digital health and mental health. From innovative apps to personalized interventions, we uncover how technology is revolutionizing the way we understand and address mental health challenges.

Co-Hosts: Leyla Warsame, MD and Davina Zamanzadeh, PhD Guest: Dr. Victoria Nichols Johnson, MD, retired Associate Professor and Physician from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is the founder and past president of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, and past chair of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Work Group of AMIA. Description: This latest installment of the Forgotten No More Series perfectly intersects with the observance of Black History Month and the start of Women's History Month as we focus on Henrietta Lacks. Listen and share this storytelling and historical perspective of the no longer forgotten, Henrietta Lacks.

Guest Host: Kevin Wiley, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina  Guest: Prof. Meredith Broussard, Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Insititute of New York University and Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, BBC, Wired, the Economist, and more. She appears in the Emmy-nominated documentary "Coded Bias" on Netflix and serves on the advisory board for the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies. In this eye-opening episode, we dive deep into the world of Artificial Intelligence and its pervasive impact on the field of medicine and healthcare. While AI holds incredible promise to revolutionize healthcare and benefit patients, regardless of background, it is not all roses and sunshine. Join us as we explore the crucial and often overlooked issue of AI bias in medicine and healthcare.  

Hosts: Sabrina Hsueh PhD Adela Grando, PhD Guest: Regina Barzilay, School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI & Health in the Department of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the AI Faculty Lead at MIG Jameel Clinic In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)'s For Your Informatics podcast, hosts Sabrina Hsueh and Adela Grando welcome Regina Barzilay, a School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI & Health in the Department of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the AI Faculty Lead at MIT Jameel Clinic. She develops machine learning methods for drug discovery and clinical AI. In the past, she worked on natural language processing. Her research has been recognized with the MacArthur Fellowship, an NSF Career Award, and the AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. Regina is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Regina describes her career journey, and how a personal experience with the healthcare system led her to work on an AI-based system for the early detection—and prediction of—breast cancer. She explains why entering the interdisciplinary field of clinical AI is so challenging and offers valuable advice on how to overcome some of these challenges. Regina also opines on new models for using AI, including the promise of ChatGPT in healthcare. Finally, she talks about inequity in medicine, and offers actionable insights on how to mitigate these shortfalls while moving the field of clinical AI forward.

Hosts: Sabrina Hsueh, PhD Adela Grando, PhD Guest: Mor Peleg, PhD, University of Haifa's Data Science Research Center In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)'s For Your Informatics podcast, hosts Sabrina Hsueh and Adela Grando welcome Mor Peleg, Professor of Information Systems at the University of Haifa and Founding Director and Head of its Data Science Research Center. She is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and an international fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). She received AMIA's New Investigator Award for work on the GLIF3 guideline modeling language. Mor is a renowned researcher in clinical guideline-based decision support. Initially fascinated by biomedical engineering, Mor shares how she arrived at the intersection of information systems and medicine, after working in IT and completing her postdoctoral research at Stanford. She mentions her recent project, MobiGuide, which aims to narrow the gap between clinical guidance and patient needs by providing 24/7 decision support to patients and providers. With a current focus on improving the mental well-being of cancer patients through evidence-based practices such as exercise, yoga, and positive psychology. Mor also shares advice for people (especially women) looking to work in interdisciplinary fields. She emphasizes the importance of health equity and how AI can be employed in the service of detecting unfairness.

Host:  Dr. Sabrina Hsueh and Dr. Sullafa Kadura Guest: Dr. Holly Urban, MD, MBA, VP of Clinical Product Design at Clinicomp Fireside chat with Dr. Holly Urban: Career transition from clinician to product management Dr. Holly Urban is a pediatrician and clinical informaticist.  She received her BA from Stanford, her MD from the University of Colorado, and her MBA from Regis University.  After working for several years as a practicing pediatrician, Holly transitioned to working in product management roles for Healthcare IT vendors, including product leadership roles at McKesson and Hearst Health.  Most recently, Holly was CMIO at Oracle Cerner before recently starting a new role as VP of Clinical Product Design at CliniComp.  

Host: Anita Murcko, MD, MACP, FAMIA Guests: Marianne Sharko, MD, MS, and Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, FACMI, FAMIA Description: This podcast is focused on information blocking and sensitive health data, more specifically, the newly implemented 21st Century Cures Act and the unanticipated impact these regulations have on teens, parents, and providers. Our experts will explore the policy and practice landscape of the 21 Century Cures Act with a focus on adolescent health data sharing and its sometimes direful consequences.  

Host: Leyla Warsame, MD Guests: Kevin Wiley, PhD Kenrick Cato, PhD, RN, CPHIMS, FAAN Tina Hernandez-Boussard, PhD Adrienne Pichon, MPH, PhD Description: Listen in on the discussion of defining and reducing AI Bias during the live recording at the AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium.

Host: Anita Murcko, MD, FACP, FAMIA Clinical Associate Professor, Arizona State University Introduction: Dina Santucci, Vice President of Business Development Guests: Eileen Koski, MPhil, FAMIA Program Director, Health Data & Insights, Health Care & Life Sciences, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Russell B. Leftwich, MD, FAMIA Senior Clinical Advisor, Interoperability, InterSystems Description: Academic and clinical informatics are well-known career paths in informatics, but what about the industry side of informatics? What is industry? What is the role of informatics in industry organizations? Learn this and more about the partnerships with industry within AMIA and the potential career paths toward industry.

Host: Karmen Williams, DrPH, MBA, MSPH, MA , CPH., City University of New York  Director of the For Your Informatics Podcast Guest: April Morena, Founder and CEO of the Public Health Podcast Network For Your Informatics Podcast has joined the Public Health Podcast Network's Directory to share in the mission of building powerful communities through public health communication. We are the first informatics-based podcast on this network. Dr. April Moreno explains the network and how we can continue the mission.

Co-Hosted: Sabrina Hsueh, PhD, Bayesian Health  Karmen Williams, DrPH, MBA, MSPH, MA , CPH., City University of New York  Guest: Dr. Wendy Chapman, Director of the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, University of Melbourne Dr. Chapman's research focuses on developing computer algorithms to understand information typed into electronic medical records - natural language processing of clinical text. She sees incredible opportunities for improving healthcare delivery and individual health if we can harness information to support decision making, improved processes, and behaviour change. She enjoys skiing, mountain biking, cooking, and visiting dog parks and beaches with her two huskies. She moved to Melbourne with her husband and youngest son and looks forward to the time when her older children can visit. ACM-AMIA Joint Podcast Series is a joint effort of the Women in AMIA's For Your Informatics (FYI) podcast and the ACM ByteCast, is a podcast series exploring the interdisciplinary field of medical informatics where both the practitioners of AI /ML solution builders and the stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystems take interest.  The two host professional societies, ACM's practitioner's board and the Women in AMIA (WIA) steering committee, have extended the effort of the two successful flagship podcast series to start this new series. This series will be jointly hosted by Rashmi Mohan, Karmen Williams, Adela Grando, and Sabrina Hsueh, who will interview female leaders (researchers, practitioners, and innovators) who have first-hand experience enabling AI/ML in real-world applications in healthcare and life science. Special emphasis will be given to the guest's career path in this highly interdisciplinary field and how each of them navigates and chooses their path and establishes their reputation within the field.  We would also welcome the guest to discuss how she evaluates and governs their own AI applications and builds trust in their own field. In each bi-monthly episode, guests will share their experiences handling interdisciplinary communication and workforce equity issues, the lessons they've learned on their own career paths, and their own visions for the future of computing.

Host: Mindy Ross, MD, MAS, MBA, UCLA Health Guest: Amy Gottlieb, MD, FACP, Baystate Health, UMass Chan - Baystate Introduction: William Hersh, MD, Oregon Health & Science University Description: Equal Pay Day in the United States represents how much longer women have to work, including their earnings from the previous year, to earn what men earn for the previous year. These earnings also vary by race, ethnicity, and region. We bring this special episode to highlight the gender-based pay inequities in medicine for Equal Pay Day 2022.  

Host: Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Co-Founder, and CEO of Dragonfly Mental Health and Research Scientist at Geisinger Health Meet a few of AMIA's 23 Working Groups and learn about their missions and goals, as well as, how you can get involved! Working Groups:  Mental Health WG - Wendy Marie Ingram AMIA Working Group Steering Committee - Vicki Tiase Education WG - Kris Alpi Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues WG - Melissa Clarkson Consumer Health Informatics WG - Katherine Kim Dental Informatics WG - Karmen Williams Nursing Informatics WG - Karen Dunn Lopez

Host: Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO of Dragonfly Mental Health and Research Scientist at Geisinger Health Guest: Irene Dankwa-Mullan, MD, MPH - A nationally recognized physician, researcher, and industry thought leader working at the intersection of healthcare, health equity, public health Informatics, data science, and applied artificial intelligence. She serves as the Chief Health Equity Officer and Deputy Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson Health. Live from AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium,  an intimate conversation with the closing speaker about HI, the human side of artificial intelligence

Host: Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO of Dragonfly Mental Health and Research Scientist at Geisinger Health Guests: Judy Murphy, RN, BSN, FACMI, FAAN, nursing executive with a long history in health informatics, and Amanda Moy, MPhil, MPH, MA, PhD student at Columbia University Description: An AMIA-led project to reduce documentation burden to 25% of what it is today within 5 years. This project was led by a Steering Committee of AMIA members who organized and convened a Symposium on the topic, called “25 by 5”, in 2020 and 2021. This episode highlights the 25x5 Symposium, results, and next steps. Additionally, the guests describe the survey that was initiated by the Steering Committee to evaluate informatics professionals' thoughts on documentation reduction strategies instituted during Covid.

Host – Adela Grando, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University   Guests - Josephine Nabukenya, PhD and Raniah Aldekhyyel, PhD    Dr. Nabukenya is an Associate Professor of Informatics and the former Dean of the School of Computing and Informatics Technology at Makerere University in Uganda. She founded and chairs the Health Informatics Research Group at the Makerere University to solve fundamental health challenges in Uganda, the African Region, and other low- and middle-income countries.   Dr. Aldekeyel is an Assistant Professor in health informatics at the College of Medicine, King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. She published this year a JAMIA paper on “What it means to be a woman in the field of biomedical informatics in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”. She is a member of several committees to review health informatics standards and develop national-level training programs in Saudi Arabia.

Host: Karmen S. Williams, DrPH and Meera Subash, MD Series Introduction: Bryan McConomy, MD Guest: Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Director of the National Library of Medicine This joint podcast series discusss the history of medical informatics through the lens of pioneers in the field. We aim to highlight historical events in health informatics as well as topics of interest to new and upcoming professionals. We begin with the topic of mentorship and how to build mentorship in areas that are non-existent, new, and up-and-coming. Enjoy!

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.  Guests: Christina Eldredge, MD,PhD, Victoria Ngo,PhD, Lu He, PhD Candidate, and Xiaoyu Liu, PhD Student Discussion on the power of networking and collaboration. Specifically, the role of AMIA to support team science.

Host: Anita Murcko, MD, FACP, FAMIA - Clinical Associate Professor, Arizona State University Guest Interview: Deepti Pandita, MD, FACP, FAMIA - Chief Health Information Officer (CHIO) and Program Director of the Clinical Informatics Fellowship at Hennepin Healthcare; Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota Special Introduction by: Tiffany Leung, MD, MPH, FACP, FAMIA - Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, Netherlands   In this episode, we explore the underrepresentation among fellows and directors in clinical informatics fellowship programs. Dr. Pandita Deepti, the first female director of an accredited clinical informatics fellowship, guides us on this journey.   Further resources:   1. Griffin et al 2021 https://academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jamia/ocaa344/6130712 2. Bell et al 2018 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6371309/  

As part of the Women in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Leadership Training Program, future leaders interviewed each other, leadership coaches, and leaders of AMIA about leadership advice. For Your Informatics podcast where we explore the limitless world of medical informatics showcases these short gems of information in our "Summer Leadership Series. You can find more information about the Women in AMIA Leadership Training Program at the following site http://wialeadership.com/  

As part of the Women in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Leadership Training Program, future leaders interviewed each other, leadership coaches, and leaders of AMIA about leadership advice. For Your Informatics podcast where we explore the limitless world of medical informatics showcases these short gems of information in our "Summer Leadership Series. You can find more information about the Women in AMIA Leadership Training Program at the following site http://wialeadership.com/

As part of the Women in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Leadership Training Program, future leaders interviewed each other, leadership coaches, and leaders of AMIA about leadership advice. For Your Informatics podcast where we explore the limitless world of medical informatics showcases these short gems of information in our "Summer Leadership Series. You can find more information about the Women in AMIA Leadership Training Program at the following site http://wialeadership.com/  

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 team of programmers and students in the development of this product.  She has also served as a Data Manager with the Emory-UGA Center of Excellence in Influenza Research, as well as having she taught a "Database Development for Public Health" course in the Rollins School of Public Health – preaching the gospel of database standards.

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 several professional societies, including the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

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 better support clinicians’ decision-making processes; implementation and evaluation of clinical decision support systems; and facilitating health information exchange to promote coordinated care between medical and dental care providers.  

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 workforce for a data-driven future. Her professional accomplishments reflect her background, which unites engineering, information technology, and clinical care to improve the public health and ensure the best possible experience in patient care.  

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 leading edge of research

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 processing Juggling career and family Perseverance