Event Locations
- Registration will take place in the South Gallery Business Center
- Workshop will take place in Salon DE (Sept 11)
- Breakfast will take place in the East Hallway (Sept 11) and West Lobby (Sept 12-13)
- Oral Presentations will be in Salons A, B & G
- Poster Sessions will be held in Salons CH
- Exhibitors will be in Salons CH
- Lunch will be served in the West Lobby
- Wine & Cheese Reception will be held at the East Hallway Salon CH
- Networking Event will be held in Conference rooms CH
- Exhibitors display will be in rooms CH
Key Dates*
- Abstract submission : CLOSED
- Notification of acceptance: On a rolling basis.
- Early bird registration Extended: August 30, 2019
- Online registration ends: September 11th, 2019
*Dates are subject to change.
DAY 1: September 11, 2019
(Pre-Conference Workshop) Limited Spots
LOCATION: SALON DE, CONFERENCE CENTER
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
"MECHANISM-BASED DISEASE DEFINITIONS FOR PRECISION THERANOSTICS"
Harald H.H.W. Schmidt, MD, PhD, PharmD, Maastricht University, Netherlands
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
"FROM GENETICS TO NETWORK MEDICINE IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE"
Ed Silverman, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
10:30 AM – NOON
HANDS-ON SESSION (COMPUTER NEEDED)
"FROM COMPLEX NETWORKS TO CLINICAL DECISIONS WITH BAYESIAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE"
Tavpritesh Sethi, MBBS, PhD, IIIT, Delhi, India
NOON – 1:00 PM
LUNCH BREAK
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
HANDS-ON SESSION (COMPUTER NEEDED)
PRECISIONFDA CHALLENGE: CREATING AND SUBMITTING BIOCOMPUTE OBJECTS
Jonathon Keeney, PhD, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Project in Collaboration with the FDA
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM COFFEE BREAK
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
HANDS-ON SESSION (COMPUTER NEEDED)
"FROM DATA TO INTERPRETATION-MINING DATA FOR ANSWERS ABOUT HEALTH AND DISEASE"
Elia Brodsky, CEO, Pine Biotech, New Orleans, LA, USA
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM COFFEE BREAK
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
HANDS-ON SESSION (COMPUTER NEEDED)
"MOLECULAR MEDICINE WITH THREE DIMENSIONAL INSIGHTS"
Shuchismita Dutta, PhD, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
SPONSORED BY
NETWORKING EVENT : MEET AND GREET WITH WINE & CHEESE
Organizer: Caleb C. McKinney, PhD, Assistant Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Training & Development , Georgetown University
DAY 2, September 12, 2019
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
REGISTRATION & CHECK-IN FOLLOWED BY CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:55 AM - 8:00 AM Blessing and Prayers, Fr. Jerry Hayes, SJ, Director of Ignatian Programs, Office of Mission & Ministry, Georgetown University
8:00 AM – 8:05 AM
CONFERENCE CHAIR INTRODUCTION
Sona Vasudevan, PhD, Director, Systems Medicine Program, Georgetown University
8:05 AM – 8:10 AM
WELCOME MESSAGE FROM GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Ed Healton, MD, Excecutive Vice-President, Georgetown University Medical Center
8:10 AM – 8:15 AM
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS FROM GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Elliott Crooke, PhD, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs, Georgetown University Medical Center
8:15 AM – 8:25 AM
WELCOME MESSAGE
IASYM
Harald H.H.W. Schmidt, MD, PhD, PharmD, Maastricht University, Netherlands
INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF NETWORK MEDICINE
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, MA Hersey Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
8:25 AM – 8:30 AM
WELCOME MESSAGE PRESIDENT EASYM
Timothy Radstake, MD, PhD, UMC Utrecht, Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Science, Utrecht, Netherlands.
8:30 AM – 9:50 AM
PLENARY SESSION 1
8:30 AM – 9:10 AM
PLENARY ADDRESS 1
"HEALTH INFORMATICS: SYSTEMS MEDICINE FOR THE 21st CENTURY"
Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, FACP, FACMI, President and CEO, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Washington DC, USA
9:10 AM – 9:50 AM
PLENARY ADDRESS 2
“NETWORK MEDICINE: APPROACH TO THE DEFINITION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE IN THE ERA OF PRECISION MEDICINE.”
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, MA Hersey Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
9:50 AM – 10:10 AM
COFFEE BREAK
10:10 AM – NOON
SESSION 1
SYSTEMS/NETWORK MEDICINE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
10:10 AM – 10:40 AM
KEYNOTE: “SYSTEMS MEDICINE IN IMMUNE MEDIATED DISEASE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR DRUG DISCOVERY AND MOLECULAR CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASE”
Tim Radstake MD, PhD, UMC Utrecht, Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Science, Utrecht, Netherlands.
10:40 AM – 11:00 AM
"PRECISION MEDICINE IN RESPIRATORY DISEASE. ARE WE BEYOND FICTION?”
Anke-Hilse Maitland-Van der Zee, PhD, University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
11:00 AM – 11:20 AM
"NETWORK MEDICINE, RISK STRATIFICATION, AND PULMONARY HYPERTENSION"
Bradley A. Maron, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM: "APPLYING NETWORK MEDICINE TO CHANGE THE WAY PATIENTS WITH AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES ARE TREATED"
Alif Saleh, MS, CEO, Scipher Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM
“SYSTEMS RESEARCH, CLINICAL PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT: THE ITALIAN ROAD TO SYSTEMS MEDICINE”
Christian Pristipino, MD, Founding President, Italian Association for Systems Medicine (ASSIMSS); Outreach and communication officer, European Association of Systems Medicine (EASYM). Rome, Italy.
NOON – 1:00 PM
LUNCH BREAK
1:00 PM – 2:10 PM
SESSION 2
-OMIC TECHNOLOGIES AND COMPLEX DISEASES
Session Chairs: Geeta Upadhyay, PhD, Damjana Rozman, PhD
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
KEYNOTE: “TOWARDS CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT IN ONCOLOGY: IDENTIFYING DRIVER ALTERATIONS AND THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS”
Nikolaus Schultz, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
1:30 PM – 1:50 PM
“COMPARATIVE ONCOGENOMICS OF LIVER DISEASE: THE SEX MATTERS.”
Damjana Rozman, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1:50 PM – 2:20 PM
"METABOLOMIC BIOMARKERS PREDICTIVE OF RADIATION LATE EFFECTS."
Amrita Cheema, Ph.D, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
2:20 PM – 3:20 PM
PANEL DISCUSSION 1
TECHNOLOGY AND REGULATION OF DIGITAL MEDICINE
Panel Moderator: Robert Jarrin, JD, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
Panelist: Kapil Parakh, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Panelist: Sylvia Trujillo, MPP, JD, Senior Washington Counsel, The American Medical Association, Washington DC, USA
Panelist: Pat Baird, MBA, Head of Global Software Standards, Philips, Chicago, IL, USA
Panelist: Bakul Patel, MBA, Associate Director for Digital Health, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), SilverSpring, MD, USA
3:20 PM - 3:30 PM
COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
SESSION 3
ETHICS AND EDUCATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE ERA OF PRECISION MEDICINE
Session Chairs: James Giordano, PhD, Anke-Hilse Maitland-Van der Zee, PhD
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
KEYNOTE: ETHICS, EDUCATION AND ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA.”
Igor Švab MD, Department of Family Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
"BIG DATA, BRAIN SCIENCE AND NEUROETHICS: EXPANDING POSSIBILITIES, ADDRESSING THE PROBLEMATIC"
James Giordano, PhD, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
"AN ETHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE USE OF CONSUMER GENERATED DATA IN HEALTH CARE"
Jessica Skopac, PhD, JD, MA, Health Technical Center, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, USA
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM
"EDUCATIONAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR GENETIC TEST IMPLEMENTATION WITHIN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS "
Emma Kurnat-Thoma, PhD, MS, RN, DHHS/NIH/NINR and Georgetown University NHS, Washington DC, USA
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
POSTER SESSION WITH WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION
DAY 3, September 13, 2019
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00 AM – 9:20 AM
PLENARY SESSIONS
Session Chairs: Sona Vasudevan, PhD and Dinesh Verma, PhD
8:00 AM – 8:40 AM
PLENARY ADDRESS 1
“SYSTEMS THINKING & THE US POPULATION HEALTH ECOSYSTEM”
William B. Rouse, PhD, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
8:40 AM – 9:20 AM
PLENARY ADDRESS 2
“PARADOX ENTAILS NEW KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE IN MEDICINE AND ELSEWHERE”
Bruce J. West, PhD, Army Research Office, Durham, NC, USA
9:20 AM – 10:30 AM
SESSION 4
DRUG REPURPOSING AND NETWORK MEDICINE
Session Chairs: Shuchismita Dutta, PhD, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, Christian Pristipino, MD
9:20 AM – 9:50 AM
KEYNOTE: “NETWORK MEDICINE: THE END OF MEDICINE AS WE KNOW IT?.”
Harald H.H.W. Schmidt, MD, PhD, PharmD, Maastricht University, Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Science, Utrecht, Netherlands.
9:50 AM – 10:10 AM
"PATHWAY NETWORKS GENERATED FROM HUMAN DISEASE PHENOME"
Maricel Kann, PhD. University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD, USA.
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM
"NETWORK-BASED ANALYSIS TO PRIORITIZE METABOLIC INTERVENTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ANTHRACYCLINE-INDUCED CARDIAC DYSFUNCTION"
Feixiong Cheng, PhD. Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
COFFEE BREAK
10: 45 AM – 12:15
SESSION 5
RARE DISEASES AND THE ROLE OF SYSTEMS/NETWORK MEDICINE
Session Chairs: Harsha K. Rajasimha PhD, James Baraniuk MD
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
KEYNOTE: "THE FOUNDATION FOR RARE DISEASE DRUG DEVELOPMENT IN THE ERA OF SYSTEMS MEDICINE"
James E. Valentine, JD, MHS, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara PC, Washington DC, USA
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM
"LONGITUDINAL PROFILING OF CARRIERS AS A KEY TO UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BODY HOMEOSTASIS"
Ancha Baranova, PhD, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM
"NETWORKS AND TOOLS FOR RARE DISEASES SYSTEMS MEDICINE RESEARCH"
Anne R. Pariser, MD, Office of Rare Diseases Research, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
"PATIENT STORIES AND HOW THEY DRIVE SYSTEMS MEDICINE RESEARCH"
Christina Grant, MD, PhD, Childrens National Health System, Washington DC, USA
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM
"JEEVA'S AI-BASED VIRTUAL TRIALS SITE ACCELERATES CLINICAL TRIALS, SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES COST AND PATIENT TRAVEL BURDEN"
Harsha K. Rajasimha, PhD. Jeeva informatics Solutions Inc., Reston, VA, USA
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
LUNCH
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
PANEL DISCUSSION 2
CURRENT CHALLENGES IN HEALTH CARE
Panel Moderator: Dinesh Verma, PhD, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, USA
Panelist: William B. Rouse, PhD, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, “Population Health in the US”
Panelist: Guru Madhavan, PhD,MBA, National Academy of Engineering, Washington DC, USA, “Systems Approaches to Health”
Panelist: Dennis McBride, PhD, SourceAmerica, Vienna, VA, USA, “Disabled and Older Adults”
Panelist: Maeve McKean, JD, Georgetown University Global Health Initiative, Washington DC, USA, “Global Health”
Panelist: James C. Palmer, Caldwell Palmer, Denver, CO, USA
2:30 PM – 2:45PM
COFFEE BREAK
2:45 PM – 4:15 PM
SESSION 6
AI/DEEP LEARNING IN MEDICINE & NLP
Session Chairs: Linda Fischetti, RN, Nawar Shara, PhD
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
KEYNOTE: "PRECISELY PRACTICING MEDICINE FROM 700 TRILLION POINTS OF DATA"
Atul Butte, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), CA, USA
3:15 PM – 3:35 PM
“LEARNINGS TO PREDICT CRITICAL OUTCOMES IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: THE SAFE-ICU PERSPECTIVE”
Tavpritesh Sethi, MBBS, PhD. IIIT, New Delhi, India.
3:35 PM – 3:55 PM
"ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING: LESSON LEARNED AND POSSIBLE ROADMAP AHEAD"
Seong K. Mun, PhD. Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA, USA
3:55 PM – 4:15 PM General Discussions