Health Informatics - NECHS 2018
Second NorthEast Computational Health Summit 2018 (April 27, 2018)
Theme: AI in Healthcare
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, 75 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA
On Friday April 27th, MIT and IBM Research co-hosted the 2nd North East Computational Health Summit. The theme of this year’s summit was AI in Healthcare, with the objective of bringing together machine learning, medical informatics and computational health professionals to share latest developments and explore potential collaborations to unlock the potential of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare.
We also featured an interactive panel, as well as submitted papers and posters on various aspects of computational health including deep learning, observational studies, predictive modelling, translational informatics, patient engagement, explanatory models, health behavior and digital health.
Featured Keynotes
Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH
Donald A.B. Lindberg Professor of Pediatrics & Biomedical Informatics,
Harvard Medical School
Peter Szolovits, PhD
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, EECS,
MIT
Featured Panelists
Finale Doshi-Velez, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computer Science,
Harvard University
Anil Jain, MD, FACP
VP & Chief Health Information Officer,
IBM Watson Health
Byron Wallace, PhD
Assistant Professor, College of Computer and Information Science,
Northeastern University
David Sontag, PhD
Assistant Professor, EECS,
MIT
Ziad Obermeyer, MD, MPhil
Assistant Professor, Health Care Policy,
Harvard Medical School
Summit Chairs
Regina Barzilay
Delta Electronics Professor, EECS, MIT
David Sontag
Assistant Professor, EECS, MIT
Amar Das
Learning Health Systems, IBM Research
Jianying Hu
Center for Computational Health, IBM Research AI
Organizing Committee
Eileen Koski
Morgan Foreman
Daby Sow
Soumya Ghosh
Li-Wei H. Lehman
Szymon Fedor
Varesh Prasad
Di Jin
Location
75 Binney St, Cambridge, MA 02142
We are located in Kendall square and are easily accessible by public transportaion.
We are a short walk from the Kendall/MIT stop on the red line and from Lechmere on the green line.
We highly encourage using public transportation to get here.
Contact
Eileen Koski, ekoski@us.ibm.com
Morgan Foreman, morgan.foreman@ibm.com
Soumya Ghosh, ghoshso@us.ibm.com
Daby Sow, sowdaby@us.ibm.com