FALL 2014

Day One Presentations from Cancer Genomics Workshop


  • Workshop Overview and Introductions: Dr. Shannon McWeeney OHSU
  • MD Anderson's Personalized Cancer Therapy Knowledge Base for Precision Oncology: Dr. Funda Meriic-Bernstam
  • Guiding Cancer Therapy with "MyCancerGenome"; Past, Present and Future: Dr. Ingrid Anderson
  • Cancer Center Directors Keynote: Modern Biologic Therapeutics for Cancer: Dr. Steve Rosen COH CCC 


Day Two Presentations

  • NIH Roadmaps & National Data Sharing Initiatives of Relevance: Dr. Michael Becich
  • High Dimensional Fused Informatics, Radiology and Imaging Informatics: Dr. Joel Saltz
  • Evolving State of Biospecimen Management: Dr. Sarah Ramsey
  • Biospecimen Informatics at WUSTL: Dr. Rakesh Nagarajan
  • Modern Cancer Center Biorepository: Dr. Alex Felmeister
  • Cancer Registries as Strategic Data Sources: Challenges & Opportunities: Dr. Frank Manion
  • Cancer Registreis as a Strategic Data Resource: Dr. Joyce Niland
  • Cancer Registry Data Utilization for Cancer Center Development & Discovery: Dr. Kevin Ward
  • A Case Study of Registry Operational Challenges: Dr. Christina Moisa
  • Linking Record Level Data Between Cancer Registry & Biobanking Sources: Dr. Patricia Lewis
  • Central Cancer Registries: Data Standards and Use in Cancer Center Research: Dr. Eric Durbin
  • Panel on Clinical & Omics Data Security, Integration and Sharing, BIG Data Management, Data Warehousing: Dr.'s Don Johann, Sorena Nadaf, Jack London, Rakesh Nagarajan, Brady Davis, & Panel Chair Dr. Umit Topaloglu
  • CI4CC Corporate Gold Keynote Address: Oracle Health Sciences. "Patient Engagement & Collaboration in Precision Medicine" - Dr. Brady Davis 
  • Methods for incorporating multi-omic markers to predict response to cancer treatment: Dr. Subha Madhavan
  • Tools & SOPs for Molecular Tumor Boards: Dr. Patrick Mergler
  • Keynote Address: Clinical Trials Research in the Era of Precision Medicine: Dr. Robert L. Comis




  • Day Three Presentations

    Corporate Keynote Address: "State of Clinical Research": Dr. Srini Kalluri, Founder, President/CEO & Chief Customer Officer Forte Research Systems, Inc
  • An Update on the Iterative Interactive Enrichment (IIE) NLP Collaborative Project on IHC with HCI Using i2e: Dr. Joyce Niland
  • Improving Quality of Clinical Research the Natural Way (NLP): Dr. Samir Courdy
  • Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) - "Searching for Diamonds Among Mountains of Narrative Clinical Text": Dr. Sorena Nadaf
  • CI4CC Initiatives: Linguamatics Update
  • Jefferson SKCC Collaborative project with TriNetX: Dr. Jack London
  • Creating Public/Private Partnerships to Accelerate Clinical Research: Dr. Michael Kamerick TriNetX
  • Research Resonance: Improving Clinical Research Performance Through Collaboration: Dr.'s Laura Hilty, Therica Miller, and Regina Schwind
  • Project Management Approaches for Cancer Center Informatics Programs and Cores: Dr. Eric Durbin
  • Ucore - UAMS' Shared Resource Management System: Dr. Umit Topaloglu
  • Project Management to Pay the Bills: Dr. Scott Sobecki
  • Cancer Informatics and a Learning Healthcare System: Dr. Warren Kibbe