Discovery and Innovation in Health IT - Committee Bios
Susan Graham, PhD, co-chair of the organizing committee
Susan L. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita and a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research spans many aspects of programming language implementation, software tools, software development environments, and high-performance computing. As a participant in the Berkeley Unix project, she and her students built the Berkeley Pascal system and the widely used program profiling tool gprof. She has done seminal research in compiler code generation and optimization. Her most recent projects are the Titanium system for language and compiler support of explicitly parallel programs and the Harmonia framework for high-level interactive software development. Professor Graham was the founding editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. She has served on numerous advisory committees; among them, the U.S. President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). She served as the Chief Computer Scientist for the NSF-sponsored National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) from 1997 to 2005. She currently serves as vice-chair of the Council of the NSF-sponsored Computing Community Consortium. Professor Graham is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among her awards are the ACM SIGPLAN Career Programming Language Achievement Award (2000), the ACM Distinguished Service Award (2006), the Harvard Medal (2008), the IEEE von Neumann Medal (2009), and the Berkeley Citation (2009). [ More ]
Isaac “Zak” Kohane, MD, PhD, co-chair of the organizing committee
Isaac “Zak” Kohane is the director of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program and is the Henderson Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is also the co-Director of the HMS Center for Biomedical Library and Director of the HMS Countway Library of Medicine. Dr. Kohane leads multiple collaborations at HMS and its hospital affiliates in the use of genomics and computer science to study diseases (particularly cancer and autism) through the perspective of biological development. He also has developed several computer systems to allow multiple hospital systems to be used as “living laboratories” to study the genetic basis of disease while preserving patient privacy. Among these, the i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) National Computing Center has been deployed at over 23 academic health centers internationally. Dr. Kohane has published over 180 papers in the medical literature and authored a widely used book on Microarrays for an Integrative Genomics. He has been elected to multiple honor societies including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American College of Medical Informatics, and the Institute of Medicine. He leads a doctoral program in genomics and bioinformatics at the Division of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT. He is also a practicing pediatric endocrinologist and father of three energetic children. [ More ]
Deborah Estrin, PhD
Deborah Estrin (PhD, MIT 1985; BS, UCB 1980) holds the Jon Postel Chair in Computer Networks at UCLA, and is founding Director of the NSF-funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. Professor Estrin is currently exploring Participatory Sensing systems that leverage location, motion, image, and attached-sensor data streams increasingly available from mobile phones; with emphasis on human and environmental health applications and privacy architectures. Professor Estrin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. She was granted Doctor Honoris Causa, EPFL (2008); the first ACM Athena Lecturer award (2006); and the SigMobile award (2009). [ More ]
Guido Gerig, PhD
Guido Gerig was recruited from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to the University of Utah under the USTAR program in 2007. Professor Gerig received his PhD in 1987 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He joined the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill as Taylor Grandy professor in August 1998 and with a joint appointment in the Departments of Computer Science and Psychiatry. At the University of Utah, Professor Gerig is currently a faculty in the School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute USTAR program, with adjunct appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry. USTAR is an innovative, aggressive and far-reaching effort to bolster Utah's economy with high-paying jobs and keep the state vibrant in the Knowledge Age. The USTAR Support Coalition and the Salt Lake Chamber sought public and private investment to recruit world-class research teams in carefully targeted disciplines. These teams will develop products and services that can be commercialized in new businesses and industries. Dr. Gerig is also the director of the UTAH Center for Neuroimage Analysis (UCNIA) and supports a number of clinical neuroimaging projects with methodology for image processing, registration, atlas building, segmentation, shape analysis, and statistical analysis. Current key research topics are analysis and modeling of the early developing brain, longitudinal analysis of multi-shape complexes, and new methodologies for statistical analysis of white matter using diffusion tensor imaging. Method developments are driven by challenging clinical applications that include research in schizophrenia, autism, multiple sclerosis, infants at risk for mental illness and aging. New tools and methods are open source and are made available to public. [ More ]
John Guttag, PhD
John V. Guttag received a bachelor's degree in English from Brown University in 1971, and a master's degree in applied mathematics from Brown in 1972. In 1975, he received a doctorate in computer science from the University of Toronto. He was a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California from 1975-1978, and joined the MIT faculty in 1979. From 1993 to 1998, Professor Guttag served as Associate Department Head for Computer Science of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department. From January of 1999 through August of 2004, Professor Guttag served as Head of that department. EECS, with approximately 1800 students and 125 faculty members, is the largest department at MIT. Professor Guttag also co-heads the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Networks and Mobile Systems Group. This group studies issues related to computer networks, applications of networked and mobile systems, and advanced software-based medical instrumentation and decision systems. Professor Guttag currently serves on the technical advisory board of Vanu, Inc., on the Board of Directors of Empirix, and on the Board of Trustees of the MGH Institute of Health Professions. He is also a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [ More ]
Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD
Eric Horvitz is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and a cofounder of Microsoft's Healthcare Solutions group. His interests span theoretical and practical challenges with developing computing systems that sense, learn, and reason, and that can assist people with decision making. His contributions include advances in machine perception, learning, and decision making, and the fielding of computing applications in multiple realms including healthcare, information retrieval, location-based services, ecommerce, and aerospace. Eric is the Immediate Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and is a fellow of the organization. He has served on the NSF’s Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee, DARPA's Information Science and Technology Study Group (ISAT), the Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC), and on the Carnegie-Mellon University Machine Learning Advisory Board. Eric received his PhD and MD degrees at Stanford University [ More ]
Yoky Matsuoka, PhD
Yoky Matsuoka is Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. She received her PhD at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience in 1998. She received an MS from MIT in 1995 and a BS from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993, both in EECS. She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT and in Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University. In her Neurobotics Laboratory, robotic models and virtual environments are used to understand the biomechanics and neuromuscular control of human limbs. In parallel, robotic and virtual environments are developed to augment, replace and enhance human sensorimotor capabilities. Her work has been recognized with a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, acclaimed as one of “The Brilliant Ten” in Popular Science Magazine and "Power 25” in Seattle Magazine. In addition, she was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), an Anna Loomis McCandless Chair from Carnegie Mellon University, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award. [ More ]
Beth Mynatt, PhD
Elizabeth Mynatt is associate dean and professor in the College of Computing and director of the GVU Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The GVU center hosts fifty-five faculty drawn from computer science, psychology, liberal arts, new media design, history of science and technology, engineering, architecture, management, and music. Mynatt played a pivotal role in creating the College of Computing Ph.D. program in Human-Centered Computing, integrating studies in human-computer interaction, learning sciences and technology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, robotics, software engineering, and information security. In the last decade, Mynatt has directed a research program in ubiquitous computing and technologies adapted to everyday life. With work that began at Xerox PARC and has grown to fruition at Georgia Tech, she examines the pervasive presence of computation in everyday life. Mynatt earned her Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in computer science from North Carolina State University and her Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech. [ More ]
Ted Shortliffe, MD, PhD, MACP, FACMI
Edward H. Shortliffe is President and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, based in Bethesda, MD. His academic appointment has been as Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University, although he will be moving to the School of Health Information Sciences at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, effective November 1, 2009. Until May 2008 he served as the founding dean of the Phoenix campus of the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine. Previously he was the Rolf A. Scholdager Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (2000-2007) and Professor of Medicine and of Computer Science at Stanford University (1979-2000). Dr. Shortliffe has spearheaded the formation and evolution of graduate degree programs in biomedical informatics at Stanford, Columbia, and Arizona State Universities. His research interests include the broad range of issues related to integrated decision-support systems, their effective implementation, and the role of the Internet in health care. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Association of American Physicians. He has also been elected to fellowship in the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. A Master of the American College of Physicians, he received the Grace Murray Hopper Award of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1976. Currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Dr. Shortliffe has authored over 300 articles and books in the fields of biomedical computing and artificial intelligence. [ More ]
Bill Stead, MD
William W. Stead is Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Chief Strategy and Information Officer, McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. He received his BA, MD, and training in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at Duke University. His interest in systems to support health care dates to 1968. He moved to Vanderbilt University in 1991 and assembled a team that has translated informatics research into approaches to information infrastructure that reduce cost to implement and barriers to adoption. The resulting enterprise-wide electronic patient chart and communication/decision support tools support his current focus on system-supported, evidence-based practice and research leading toward personalized medicine. He is a Founding Fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Institute for Engineering in Biology and Medicine, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He served as Chairman of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, as a Presidential appointee to the Commission on Systemic Interoperability, and as co-editor of the NRC report Computational Technology for Effective Healthcare: immediate steps and strategic directions. He is a member of the Council of the Institute of Medicine. [ More ]
Keith Strier, JD
Keith Strier is a Principal with the Health Sciences & Government Practice at Deloitte & Touche LLP, and is an internationally eminent advisor on the biomedical innovation, emerging technologies and translational medicine. Mr. Strier works with private and public sector clients worldwide and is currently advising the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on the development of a global charter on health data. Mr. Strier is a frequent lecturer on health innovation at the Harvard Medical School / MIT Health Science Technology Program. He has also served as visiting faculty at UC Berkeley’s BioExec Institute, UCLA’s LA BioMedical Research Institute, UC Irvine’s School of Business Healthcare MBA Program and USC’s Marshall School of Business, Global BioBusiness Initiative. Mr. Strier has received numerous industry honors including serving as a featured speaker at the Mayo Clinic’s Inaugural Symposium on Innovation in Healthcare, and as the keynote at the Summit on Information Systems in Translational Research at Seoul National University in South Korea. In March 2009, Keith was an invited speaker to the surgical residents and teachers at Peking Union Medical College in Beijing. Mr. Strier earned his Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial & Labor Relations with Honors from Cornell University and a Law Degree from New York University’s School of Law.
