Past Series

2019–2020 Schedule

Fall 2019

Date	Topic	Speaker
12/3/19	Prediction of Patient Placement (POPP): Reducing Emergency Department Boarding Times	Andrew Fire, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Boston Children's Hospital
11/26/19	Patient Safety Learning Laboratory: Improving Diagnostic Safety in Acute Care	Anuj K. Dalal, MD Associate Physician, Hospital Medicine Unit, Division of General Internal Medicine; Associate Director, Harvard-Brigham Research Fellowship in Hospital Medicine
11/12/19	FHIR and Interoperability	Brian Anderson, MD Chief Digital Health Physician, MITRE Corporation
11/5/19	Using IT to Identify Social Determinants of Health Needs and Resources	Rebecca Mishuris, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Boston Medical Center
10/29/19	MHS GENESIS: Is New Technology the Answer?	Colonel Thomas Cantilina, MD Chief Health Informatics Officer, Military Health System (MHS); Deputy MHS EHR Functional Champion, Defense Health Agency (DHA)
10/22/19	Health Information Exchanges: the Promise and the Potential	Laura Adams Catalyst, X4Health; Oversight Council, Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Exchange; Co-Chair, National Academy of Medicine Health Data Trust Initiative Steering Committee
10/15/19	Network Fundamentals	Tim White Vice President, Infrastructure Technology Services, Partners Healthcare
10/8/19	Fairness, Ethics, and Bias in Machine Learning	Irene Chen PhD Student, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
10/1/19	Panel Session A conversation with recently graduated fellows: Job search, First Jobs, and their experience with EHR roll-outs	Jorge A. Rodriguez, MD Hospitalist-Researcher, Department of General Internal Medicine, BWH Terrance Lee, MD, MPH Chief Medical Information Officer, BIDMC community hospitals Frank Pandolfe, MD, MMSc Clinical Product Specialist, InterSystems
9/24/19	Journal Club Consensus Development of a Modern Ontology of Emergency Department Presenting Problems—The Hierarchical Presenting Problem Ontology (HaPPy) Estimating the impact of deploying an electronic clinical decision support tool as part of a national practice improvement project	Lin Shen, MD Associate Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy; Clinical Informatics Fellow, BWH Peter Hong, MD, FAAP Clinical Fellow, Clinical Informatics & Pediatric Hospital Medicine, BCH
9/17/19	Deep Learning Based Quantification of Pulmonary Edema Severity from Chest Radiographs	Ruizhi Liao PhD Student, MIT
9/10/19	Open Data: The story of MIMIC and its future	Alistair Johnson, PhD Research Scientist, MIT

Spring 2020

Date	Topic	Speaker
5/5/20	Lessons from the Pandemic: 22 Days Addressing the NP Swab Shortage Telemedicine in the Emergency Department for COVID-19 Response	Ramy Arnaout, MD, DPhil, FCAP, FASCP Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology Faculty, Division of Clinical Informatics, Department of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Faculty, Department of Systems Biology, HMS Larry A. Nathanson, MD Director of Emergency Medicine Informatics, BIDMC Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
4/28/20	Artificial Intelligence: Nuts and Bolts of Machine Learning for Medical Imaging	Katherine Andriole, PhD Director of Research Strategy and Operations, MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
4/21/20	Natural Language Processing for Healthcare	Geeticka Chauhan Graduate Student, MIT CSAIL
4/14/20	Telehealth for Covid-19 COVID Pass: A Web-based, Mobile Responsive Application to Screen Healthcare Workers for COVID Symptoms	Oren Mechanic, MD Director of Telehealth, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians (HMFP) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Core Faculty, Clinical Skills Course, Harvard Medical School Haipeng (Mark) Zhang, DO, MMSc Digital Innovation Hub, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
4/7/20	COVID-19 Response: Experience to date at Boston Children's Hospital	Jonathan Hron, MD Pediatric Hospitalist and Physician Lead for Inpatient Informatics, Program Director, Boston Children’s Hospital Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s HospitalInstructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Chase Parsons, DO, MBI Pediatric Hospitalist, Department of Pediatrics; Physician Lead for Prescriber Education and Clinical Decision Support, Boston Children's Hospital Marvin Harper, MD Senior Associate Physician in Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine Associate Physician, Boston Children's Hospital; Chief Medical Information Officer, Boston Children's Hospital
3/31/20	Secondary use of EHR audit log data: The Hope and the Hype	Jonathan Hron, MD Hospitalist and Clinical Informaticist, Boston Children's Hospital; Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Hojjat Salmasian, MD, PhD, MPH Medical Director, Data Science and Analytics Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Quality and Safety, Instructor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
3/24/20	Clinical Imaging Informatics in Action: Extracting Valuable Knowledge from Archival Pediatric Brain MRI	Randy L. Gollub, MD, PhD Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Associate Director for Translational Research, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Co-Director HST Neuroimaging Training Program Yangming Ou, PhD Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Faculty, Fetal-Neontal NeuroImaging Data Science Center (FNNDSC); Affiliate Faculty, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP)
3/3/20	Machine Learning to Predict Inpatient Deterioration and Alert Clinicians: From Raw Data to Clinical Implementation	Santiago Romero-Brufau, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Healthcare Systems Engineering and Medicine, Mayo Clinic
2/25/20	Pediatric and Adolescent OpenNotes: Adoption and Implementation Challenges	Fabienne Bourgeois, MD, MPH Pediatric Hospitalist, Clinical Informatician Boston Children’s Hospital
2/11/20	OpenNotes: Contemplating Fully Transparent Medical Records	Tom Delbanco, MD, MACP Keane Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2/4/20	Cybersecurity for the Clinical Informaticist	Marvin Harper, MD Senior Associate Physician in Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine Associate Physician, Boston Children's Hospital; Chief Medical Information Officer, Boston Children's Hospital
1/21/20	Journal Club	Nicole Benson, MD Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Instructor in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital Vivek Upadhyay, MD Clinical Fellow in Hematology & Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
1/14/20	Boston Children’s Hospital / MITRE Corporation Collaborative Projects	David Slater Lead Operations Research Analyst, Corporation's Operations Research Department, MITRE

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