Informatics, Computational Power and Understanding Disease in Tissue: The Enterprise, the Laboratory and the Future of Surgical Pathology

Department of Biomedical Informatics Lecture Series
Biomedical Informatics

Informatics, Computational Power and Understanding Disease in Tissue: The Enterprise, the Laboratory and the Future of Surgical Pathology

John R. Gilbertson, MD
Associate Chief of Pathology; Associate Professor of Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
December 18, 2017 - 11:00am
5607 Baum Blvd., Fourth Floor, Conference Room 407 A/B

Abstract:

We will discuss the growth and evolution of bio-medical informatics/pathology informatics over the past 20 years from two, complementary, perspectives:

 

At the enterprise level – at the perspective of an Associate Chief of Pathology and Director of Pathology Informatics – we will discuss how information, information systems, informatics trained personnel (and training programs), analytics, data sciences and artificial intelligence – has become not only a operational and strategic asset, but also part of the medicine’s vision of itself.

 

At the level of the research lab – at the perspective of an informatics researcher – how whole slide imaging, the ability to digitize slides rapidly, automatically and at high fidelity, has been approved by the FDA and is poised to become the foundation on which developments in software, microscopy, staining and robotics will open multiple windows to the understanding of disease in tissue.

 

Attendees will learn:

- Ways in which Departments and Healthcare systems are investing in informatics, informatics trained personnel and artificial intelligence
- The studies and data behind the FDA approval of WSI for primary diagnosis
- Evolving techniques, based on enterprise informatics and whole slide images, that will allow us to look at disease in tissue

LOCATION:

Department of Biomedical Informatics

5607 Baum Blvd., Fourth Floor, Conference Room 407 A/B

Pittsburgh, PA 15206