Guest speakers of the IMPACT Collaboratory Technical Data Core, David Dorr, MD, MS, and V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran, PhD will present on “Not all approaches to data are created equal: Data-related challenges for pragmatic trials involving PLWD.”

Webinar Date and Time

Thursday, September 17, 2020 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

Speakers

David Dorr, MD, MS earned his BA in Economics and his MD from Washington University in St. Louis. He completed Internal Medicine residency at OHSU, and earned a Master’s in Medical Informatics and Health Services Administration from the University of Utah. Broadly, Dr. Dorr’s interests lie in complex care management, especially for older adults and other at-risk populations, coordination of care, collaborative care, chronic disease management, quality, and the requirements of clinical information systems to support these areas. He has also broadened into clinical information needs, Electronic Health Record (EHR) deployment and Health Information Exchange as a way to expand systems-based approaches to all of health care. Dr. Dorr performs evaluations of care management and informatics initiatives using a variety of methodologies.

V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran, PhD earned his Masters in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is an assistant professor of learning health sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School and assistant professor of information, School of Information. Dr. Vydiswaran’s areas of interest include natural language processing, text and data mining, health information extraction, and information trustworthiness. His current research focus is on mining and analyzing health information from multiple sources, including electronic health records, community health forums, scientific literature, and social and information networks, with a special interest in analyzing textual health information to infer credibility of medical assertions.

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