2024–2025 Schedule

DateTopicSpeaker
11/5/24Data Conversion - Trials and Tribulations of an enterprise EHR transition

Jonathan Hron, MD
Co-Founder, Boston Children’s Hospital Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program

Pediatrician, Boston Children's Hospital

11/19/24CybersecurityDana A. Schinasi, MD, MSHI
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
12/9/24Special Session with Micky Tripathi

Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP
Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy

National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (Acting)

12/10/24Pediatric Cancer Data Commons - Samuel Volchenboum, MD, PhD

Samuel Volchenboum, MD, PhD
Pediatric Cancer Data Commons

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Chicago 

Associate Chief Research Informatics Officer, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago

12/17/24Liquid AI: Precision Hematology Diagnostics

Gregory Goldgof, MD, PhD, MS
Assistant Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine

Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Hematopathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

1/14/25A Tale of Two Epic Go LivesTerrance Lee, MD, MPH
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health

Chase Parsons, DO, MBI
Chief Medical Information Officer, Boston Children's Hospital
1/21/25Incorporating Simulation and Human Factors into an Enterprise EHR TransitionJonathan Hron, MD, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer of Boston Children's Hospital, and members of the Boston Children's Hospital Immersive Design Systems Team
1/28/24Implementing AI/Automation

Nirav Shah, MD, MPH
Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, AI and Innovation

Director of Investigational Innovation at Endeavor Health

2/4/25An Introduction to (and Insights from) a New Division of Clinical Informatics at UCSF

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD
Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics & Digital Transformation (DoC-IT)

Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

2/11/25Informatics, eh?: Clinical Informatics Experience from Canada

Adam Yan, MD, MBI, FRCPC, FAAP
Oncology Informatics Lead,

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), University of Toronto

2/25/25Fostering a Data-Driven Culture Through Data Literacy and GovernanceHojjat Salmasian, MD, MPH, PhD
Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
3/11/25Clinical Decision Support: An Improvement Science and Human Factors-Based Approach

Swaminathan Kandaswamy, PhD
Assistant Professor
Director of Human Factors in Information System Design, Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics

Julia Yarahuan, MD
Medical Director of Clinical Decision Support Operations
Pediatric Hospitalist, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine

3/25/25Two EHR medication safety issues in the wild: The vendor perspective on antecedents and responsesEthan D. Gershon, MD
Physician Informaticist 
4/29/25Climate Health Informatics

Chethan Sarabu, MD, FAMIA, FAAP
Director of Clinical Innovation,Health Tech Hub at Cornell Tech

Co-Founder, the Climate Health Innovation & Learning Lab

Vice-Chair, AMIA Climate, Health, and Informatics Working Group

5/6/25Machine Translation

Joss Moorkens, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies in Dublin City University (DCU)

Science Lead, ADAPT Centre

Member, DCU’s Institute of Ethics and Centre for Translation and Textual Studies

Board Member, European Masters in Translation Network