I2B2 TRANSMART - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and CEO, ITTM
Over 20 years of experience in Pharma, Clinical Research and Diagnostics always focusing on data quality and interoperability aspects. ITTM (Information Technology for Translational Medicine) provides data integration and knowledge management solutions and services, especially data curation and harmonization incl. hosting of knowledge platforms and process optimization solutions.
Job Titles:
- Chief Innovation Officer, Dell Technologies
Dave's charter is to establish alliance partner collaborations to drive joint engineering, develop and commercialize of data intensive cloud-based platforms for healthcare. Dave was strategic advisor to healthcare startups and investment banks, co-founding WhatNext, social media for sharing patient experience with the American Cancer Society and philanthropic organizations.
Diane was the Executive Director of the i2b2 Foundation prior to being named the Executive Director of the combine i2b2 tranSMART Foundation. Diane has extensive Healthcare IT experience including academic medical centers, community and specialty hospitals, provider networks, industry, and biomedical research with a major focus on developing scalable enterprise strategies and solutions.
Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga is the UMass Memorial Health Care Chair in Biomedical Research
Professor of Molecular Medicine, and Vice Provost for Clinical and Translational Research at the UMass Chan Medical School. Her research on viral and host factors that contribute to the persistence of viral infections has contributed to the development of prevention and treatment strategies for pediatric HIV-1 infection and informed global treatment guidelines and policies. In her current role as Director of the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Dr. Luzuriaga leads efforts to translate scientific discoveries into products and approaches that improve individual and population health.
Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, & Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Omenn's research focuses on cancer proteogenomics, splice isoforms, and prediction of functions of unannotated proteins. He is a leader of the global Human Proteome Project. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and past president of the AAAS.
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- Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Department of Medicine, Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology (IMBIO), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Previously, Dr Weber was Chief Technology Officer at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr Weber was the original author of the i2b2 WebClient.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Chairman of the Board / Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School Dr. Kohane is driven by the vision of what biomedical researchers could do to find new cures, provide new diagnoses and deliver the best care available if data could be converted more rapidly to knowledge and knowledge to practice. Dr. Kohane created DBMI at Harvard and was instrumental in the creation and support of the i2b2 platform. Dr. Kohane serves as the Chairman of the Board of the i2b2 tranSMART Foundation.
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- Professor of Pediatrics Isaac Kohane
Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics Isaac Kohane is the new head of the new Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He is pictured in Countway Library in the rare books collection, the original big data, at HMS. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
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- Physcian Executive, InterSystems
Innovator, entrepreneur, product management, research, and global business development. Leading innovation initiatives in product, technology, and market segment including life science, research, precision medicine, real world evidence, and AI. He led product development, strategy, and UK/China healthcare IT market entry. At Partners HealthCare, led the development of LMR, enterprise EMR solution, and grants. Passionate about translational research and disruptive technology.
Rudy Potenzone is the Secretary and VP Marketing for the i2b2 tranSMART Foundation. He also serves as the Chair of the tranSMART Product Management Committee (PMC) and is the Managing Director of SciencePoint Solutions. Rudy has been developing and delivering scientific software and content products to the pharmaceutical, life science and chemical research community for 30 years.
Job Titles:
- Chief Research Information Officer, Partners HealthCare
- Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
Dr Murphy is also Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He has developed the initial Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR) for Partners HealthCare, a large data warehouse with 7 million patients and 3 billion rows. Dr. Murphy is the chief architect of the NIH Sponsored Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2).
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of DBMI
- Executive Director, DBMI, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Churchill is executive director of DBMI, and the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Center of Excellence. Dr. Churchill also serves as the executive director of the N-GRID (neuropsychiatric genome-scale and RDoC-Individualized domains). She also serves at the Center of Excellence in Genome Science and program director for the Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics (SIBMI).
Susanne Churchill received her PhD from Boston University School of Medicine and did her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School in the field of cardiovascular and renal physiology, progressing to instructor and lecturer. She co-founded the Institute for Circadian Physiology in Boston, where she served as chief operating officer while continuing her research in space medicine and teaching. She returned full time to HMS to serve as director of sponsored programs administration and subsequently was appointed associate dean for research. Churchill next joined forces with Isaac Kohane to lead the successful Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) National Center for Biomedical Computing at Partners HealthCare as its executive director and principle investigator of the educational core. She joined DBMI in 2015 as executive director of the department, executive director of the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Center of Excellence, executive director of the N-GRID (neuropsychiatric genome-scale and RDoC-Individualized domains) Center of Excellence in Genome Science and program director for the long-running Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics (SIBMI). Churchill is also an instructor in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Vice head of the Department of Medical Informatics, University Medical Center. Long term experience in design, operation and validation of IT infrastructure for health care and translational research. He heads the Interoperability working group of the German Medical Informatics Initiative. Dr. Sax is active in the Technology and Method Platform for Networked Medical Research, including spokesman for the quality management working group.