8^th International Conference on Health Informatics & Telemedicine September 28-29, 2018 | Chicago, Illinois, USA

John P. Hoyt is Executive Vice President Emeritus, HIMSS Analytics at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the largest U.S. not-for-profit healthcare caused-based organization focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology. While a full time Executive Vice President, Mr. Hoyt was responsible for providing executive leadership and direction to HIMSS Analytics worldwide where he also provided direction for all Stage 6 and Stage 7 validations and derivative research. Now as EVP Emeritus, Mr. Hoyt continues to conduct Stage 6 and Stage 7 validations, conduct consulting engagements globally and is the principle architect and interpreter of the revised acute care EMRAM standards which were announced at HIMSS 2016 in Las Vegas for use in 2017.Throughout his healthcare career, Hoyt has been instrumental in defining business and IT strategy as well as selecting, implementing and integrating mission-critical healthcare information systems across the enterprise. Before joining HIMSS, Hoyt served as a hospital Chief Operating Officer and twice as a Chief Information Officer with various healthcare organizations accumulating in over 22 years of hospital executive committee leadership experience. Mr. Hoyt served in consultancy practices, including: IBM Healthlink Services and First Data Health Systems Group. Hoyt holds a BSBA in Economics from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and an MHA from St. Louis University in Missouri. He is a HIMSS Fellow and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

Healthcare information systems and Data Health Systems

Dr. Michael W. Popejoy, a Fellow at the Royal Society for Public Health, received his Ph.D. in public administration from Florida Atlantic University, an M.B.A. from Barry University, the M.P.H. from Florida International University, and the M.S. in Health Administration from Strayer University. He has served as professor and Applied Business Institute research professor and consultant, department chair, institute director and president of the faculty senate at the Rinker School at Palm Beach Atlantic University; and currently serves as adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University (public safety), Florida International University (public health), and Central Michigan University (clinical research administration). He is Assistant Editor and Book Review Editor for White House Studies, Discussion Papers Editor for The Innovation Journal; and Book Review Editor for the Journal of Public Affairs Education; and is a frequent contributor to Public Health (UK) and Perspectives in Public Health (UK). He also serves on editorial boards for many academic journals in public administration, public health, qualitative research, and the humanities. His first co-edited book Global Public Health Policy is forthcoming this year from Nova Science Publishers, and his second co-edited book as yet untitled is on the topic of public health and public administration partnership initiatives which constitutes on of his major areas of scholarly interest today.

Big Data Predictive Analytics and data mining

Dusanka Janezic is professor of Mathematics in Natural Sciences, Univesrity of Primorska (Slovenia). Founder of molecular modeling research in Slovenia with her research group currently ranking as one of the top research group in the field wordwide. Has publised 2 scientific books and 105 publications with over 1500 pure citations in Web of Science database, and h-index 19. One of the Editors in the ACS Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (2001-2014, EAB member 2015-present). In 2013, Recipient of Žiga Zois Award (highest form of scientific recognition in Slovenia) for outstanding research achievements in mathematics in natural sciences. In 1999, Recipient of Ambassador in Science of the Republic of Slovenia Award. In 2009, Full Professor promotion, University of Primorska.Since 2013 she is appointed by the government of Republic of Slovenia as council member of the National Agency of Qualitative Evaluation of Higher Education in Slovenia.

Her research interests include protein dynamics, structure in molecular liquids, biomolecular simulations, protein binding sites and protein-protein binding. She is expert in all modern computer systems and programs used to solve these problems and is eager to bring these methods to bear on problems in drug discovery.

Vladimir Bajic is Professor and director of the Computational Bioscience Research Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. He was professor of bioinformatics and acting and deputy director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), South Africa. He worked in industry and several academic and research institutions in Yugoslavia, South Africa, Singapore and Saudi Arabia, including the Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore, where he was head of the Knowledge Extraction Laboratory. Several bioinformatic tools and a knowledge discovery platform he developed found commercial applications. Prof. Bajic was awarded the first South African National Research (Tier 1) Chair in Bioinformatics and Human Health. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He earned graduate and master’s degrees (University of Belgrade, Serbia), and a doctorate of engineering sciences (University of Zagreb, Croatia) all in electrical engineering. Research interest: development of platforms to facilitate knowledge-mining in biomedical domain; medical informatics; diagnostic biomarkers; in silico screening; drug repositioning.

development of platforms to facilitate knowledge-mining in biomedical domain; medical informatics; diagnostic biomarkers; in silico screening; drug repositioning

Dr. Fuhai Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, the Ohio State University. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Peking University in 2008 with research focus on computational biomedical informatics. Dr. Li did his pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training in bioinformatics at Harvard Medical School and Houston Methodist Research Institute. Dr. Li has 10 years of experience in computational biomedical informatics, and published over 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. His research interest is to develop computational approaches and software to integrate personal genomics data with big data of pharmacogenomics and convert the big data into knowledge of precision medicine, drug combination prediction, drug response prediction, as well as uncovering the mechanisms of tumor-stroma interaction in tumor progression.

Data-driven precision medicine, personalized medicine, drug combination prediction

Dr. Fu-Kwun Wang received the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University, USA. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial Management at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. His research interests are reliability, quality control, predictive analytics, and supply chain management. He has authored and co-authored 124 journal papers and 42 conference papers in these fields.

reliability, quality control, predictive analytics, and supply chain management

Amir M. Tahmasebi is the Cluster Leader and Senior Research Scientist in Clinical informatics department at Philips Research North America, Cambridge, MA. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada in 2010. Dr. Tahmasebi also holds associate adjunct professor position at Columbia University, NY. His research interests are in Healthcare Informatics, Medical Image Analysis and Medical Image-guided Interventions. Dr. Tahmasebi has received numerous awards and grants for his research achievements in the area of medical image analysis. He currently serves on the program committee of International Conference on Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions (IPCAI).

Medical image analysis