Precision Convergence Webinar Series with Dr. Jonathan Silverstein
Convergence at scale among health care, data, and open science: Can secure, liquid, data drive precise decision-making and practice?
Dr. Jonathan Silverstein
With a high-level panel of leaders in science, technology, on-the-ground action, investment, and policy
In the biomedical domain, individuals of all types (clinicians, payers, patients, scientists, innovators) must make precise decisions based upon data. Yet the data relevant to their decisions spans vast domains inaccessible in usable form to each. In this talk we explore the collection, assembly, and re-use of data fit to purpose. Considerations include policy and technology that can lead to collaborative socio-technical systems. What is permitted? How do U.S. Federal regulations such as HIPAA impact the assembly of data for open scientific use. What impact does the privacy and confidentiality of -omics data have? How do we manage authentication and authorization of individual actors in flexible ways? Can data be normalized and does it have to be? Can we achieve the secure data liquidity we need to build converged collaboration focusing on the individual. What role do learning health systems play?
About the speaker
Jonathan Silverstein, MD, MS, FACS, FACMI, is internationally known for his expertise in the application of advanced computing architectures to biomedicine. He serves as Chief Research Informatics Officer and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Previous positions include Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Tempus, Vice President and Davis Family Chair of Informatics at NorthShore University HealthSystem, and asso-ciate director of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Labor-atory. Recognized as a founding scientific director of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, and most recently as a Principal Investigator for the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) Infra-structure, he was an attending general surgeon while serving as lead physician informatician for mul-tiple enterprise electronic health record deployments. Dr. Silverstein earned his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis and his Master of Science from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the American College of Medical Informatics.
Current projects include: (1) the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the resilience of global supply chains; (2) the impact of U.S. protectionism on jobs and regional trade agreements; (3) evaluating how the digital economy and Industry 4.0 are likely to affect international business strategies and economic, social and environmental upgrading; and (4) shifting regional interdependencies in East Asia and North America, with a focus on China, South Korea and Mexico vis-à-vis the United States. Gereffi was invited to testify at the US Senate Commerce Committee hearings on “Implementing Supply Chain Resiliency” in Washington, DC on July 15, 2021. The hearing details, including a list of speakers, their written statements, and the video recording (webcast) are presented online.
About the series
The Precision Convergence series is launched to catalyze unique synergy between, on the one hand, novel partnerships across sciences, sectors and jurisdictions around targeted domains of real-world solutions, and on the other hand, a next generation convergence of AI with advanced research computing and other data and digital architectures such as PSC’s Bridges-2, and supporting data sharing frameworks such as HuBMAP, informing in a real time as possible the design, deployment and monitoring of solutions for adaptive real-world behavior and context.
The Precision Convergence Webinar Series is co-hosted by The McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at McGill University and The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint computational research center between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
