Conference Sessions
Friday, February 5, 2021
Plenary Session | 9:00am – 12:00pm
9:00am – 9:15am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Robert L. Caslen, UofSC President
G. Thomas Chandler, Dean UofSC Arnold School of Public Health
9:15am – 9:30am
Announcement of Students Case Competition Winning Teams
9:30am – 9:45am
Tea Break
9:45am – 10:30am
Keynote Presentation:
Title: Using Data Science to Address a Global Pandemic
Susan Gregurick (NIH)
10:30am – 11:15am
Keynote Presentation：
Title: Big Biomedical Data Analysis Using Ontology and AI Technologies
Cui Tao (University of Texas)
11:15am – 12:00pm
Keynote Presentation:
Title: COVID-19 in South Carolina: Applying A Big Data Science Driven Approach
Bankole Olatosi (UofSC)
Breakout Sessions (Set 1) | 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Electronic Health Records Core (1st Session)
The Promise of Big Data in Health Care: Improving Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes
Moderator: Jiajia Zhang (UofSC)
Presentation 1
Title: Leveraging Different Approaches in Big Data and Machine Learning to Conduct Infoveillance Studies for the COVID-19 Pandemic
Timothy Mackey (University of California)
Presentation 2
Title: Harnessing Network Medicine for Drug Repurposing in COVID-19
Feixiong Cheng (Case Western Reserve University and Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic)
Presentation 3
Title: Artificial intelligence-enabled rapid diagnosis of patients with COVID-19
Yang Yang (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Presentation 4
Title: Using Real World Data For Personalized Treatment Effects: Heterogeneity In The Benefits of Oral Antidiabetic Medications.
Jeffrey McCullough (University of Michigan)
Geospatial Core
Health Geography and Infectious Diseases
Moderator: Jan Eberth (UofSC)
Presentation 1
Title: Understanding the G in Geospatial Analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic
Susan Cutter (UofSC)
Presentation 2
Title: Social determinants of health data in AIDSVu: A new public health data resource
Patrick Sullivan (Emory University)
Presentation 3
Title: Staying Connected while Social Distant: A Spatial Analysis of Broadband Access and Implications for Peri-Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Times
Whitney Zahnd (UofSC)
Presentation 4
Title: Monitoring the Spatial Spread of COVID-19 and Effectiveness of the Control Measures through Human Movement using Big Social Media Data
Zhenlong Li (UofSC)
Social Media Core
Mining Social Media Big Data for Health Applications
Moderator: Amir Karami (UofSC)
Presentation 1
Title: Challenges in Digital Epidemiology: Using Social Media Mining for Health Research
Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez (University of Pennsylvania)
Presentation 2
Title: Using Media Data for Monitoring and Prediction of Public Health Outcomes
Wei Wang (University of California, Los Angeles)
Genomic Core
Moderator: Homayoun Valafar (UofSC)
Presentation 1
Title: Proximity-dependent Biotinylation to Study Host Shutoff Nonstructural Protein 1 of SARS Coronavirus
Anita Nag (UofSC)
Presentation 2
Title: Abnormalities in Behavior, Sleep, and Brain Gene Expression Profile in a Developmental Rodent Model: Relevance to Psychotic Disorder
Ana Pocivavsek (UofSC)
Presentation 3
Title: Transcriptomic Studies in Outbred Deer Mice
Hippokratis Kiaris (UofSC)
Presentation 4
Title: Applying msTALI to Active Site Identification Studies on SARS-Co-V-2
Devaun McFarland (UofSC)
Presentation 5
Title: Predicting Individual Outcomes of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Patients to Cardiac Re-Synchronization Therapy Using Artificial Intelligence
Brendan Odigwe (UofSC)
Breakout Sessions (Set 2) | 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Electronic Health Records Core (2nd Session)
Challenges of Complex Analysis in EHR Data
Moderator: Peiyin Hung (UofSC)
Presentation 1
Title: Network-based Statistical Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data in Post-stroke Aphasia
Xingpei Zhao, Yuan Wang, Alexander C McLain, Roozbeh Behroozmand, Chris Rorden, Julius Fridriksson (UofSC)
Presentation 2
Title: Challenges in AI-infused Telehealth in the Post-Covid19 Era
Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Kaushik Roy, Amit Sheth (UofSC)
Presentation 3
Title: Using behavior of wearable activity trackers and its relation with HbA1c among type 2 diabetes patients (T2DM)
Xinying Sun, Ying Shen (Peking University)
Presentation 4
Title: Emergence and Evolution of Big Data Analytics in HIV Research: Bibliometric Analysis of Federally Sponsored Studies in HIV 2000-2019
Chen Liang, Shan Qiao, Bankole Olatosi, Tianchu Lyu, Xiaoming Li (UofSC)
BDHSC 2021 Pilot Project Showcase
Moderator: Jan Eberth (UofSC)
Panel 1
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Title: Topological Network Analysis and Graph-Based Deep Learning of Multimodal MRI: An ENIGMA-Epilepsy Study
Yuan Wang (UofSC)
Title: Big Genomic Data Analysis to characterize TME-methylation-expression Regulatory Axis in Colorectal Tumors
Guoshuai Cai (UofSC)
Title: Utilization of Artificial Intelligence assisted data analytics to better predict progression of chronic kidney disease to end stage than currently available predictive markers
Homayoun Valafar (UofSC)
Panel 2
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Title: Evaluating a Technology EMR-Based Strategy to Intervene on Social Determinants of Health-Related Needs in a Large Health System
Caroline Rudisill (UofSC)
Title: Electronic health records to estimate effects of dental treatment on systemic health
Anwar Merchant (UofSC)
Title: Using Natural Language Processing to Generate Treatment Decision Themes from Clinical Encounter Notes for Patients with Shoulder Conditions
Benjamin Schooley (UofSC)
SC RFA Workshop
Accessing Data Housed at SC Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office
Moderator: Bankole Olatosi (UofSC)
Presenter 1
David Patterson (SC RFA)
Presenter 2
Dianne Davis (SC RFA)
Presenter 3
Elizabeth Hall (SC RFA)
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Plenary Session | 9:15am – 12:00pm
9:15am – 10:15am
Keynote Presentation:
Title: Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Optimal Treatment Regime Estimation and Inference
Wenbin Lu (North Carolina State University)
10:15am – 11:00am
Keynote Presentation:
Title: Integrating Big Data into Theory and Applications on Health-Behavioral Change
Dolores Albarracin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11:00am – 11:15am
Tea Break
11:15am – 12:00pm
Keynote Presentation:
Title: Operational Analytics in Veteran Healthcare
Hugh Welch (Columbia VA HCS)
Plenary Session | 1:00pm – 4:00pm
1:00pm – 1:45pm
Keynote Presentation:
Title: Saving lives and livelihoods: data and analytics in the fight against COVID-19.
Steve Bennett (SAS)
1:45pm – 2:30pm
Keynote Presentation:
Title: Reading between the tweets: using social data for predicting and changing public health behaviors
Sean Young (University of California)
2:30pm – 2:45pm
Tea Break
2:45pm – 3:30pm
Keynote Presentation:
Title: Elaboration of Disease Pathways to Drive Future Requirements for Healthcare Systems Using Innovation Think Tank
Sultan Haider (Siemens Healthineers)
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Closing Remarks
Stephen Cutler, Dean UofSC College of Pharmacy
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