The Saban Research Institute 2019 Annual Symposium: “Big Data – Big Impact”
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On February 12, 2019, The Saban Research Institute hosted its annual symposium on “Big Data – Big Impact,” which focused on how our capacity to rapidly collect and distribute substantial amounts of basic and clinical information through big data technology can be used to improve pediatric best practices, promote child health, and improve lifelong outcomes.
Learning from such massive amounts of complex data has become routine for commercial enterprises like Google and Facebook, and government organizations such as the National Security Administration. The techniques, also widely used in biomedical research, employ computer programs to uncover patterns and relationships that might not otherwise be apparent. Information on this scale has been termed “big data” and is defined by its volume, variety and velocity.
Big data in medicine holds the promise of becoming an engine to address unmet needs of patients, clinicians, researchers and policymakers. Novel approaches that leverage these massive data assets could lead to an explosion of discoveries that has the potential to truly transform medicine and the care of children.
The symposium featured presentations by the following distinguished group of speakers who discussed their work and their future plans for using big data to alter the trajectory of discovery and advance efforts to improve lives.
Keynote Speakers:
Sara L. Van Driest, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Ed Lein, PhD, Allen Institute for Brain Science; University of Washington
Elaine R. Mardis, PhD, The Ohio State University
Scott L. Delp, PhD, Stanford University
Additional Speakers Included:
Sunhye Lee, PhD, The Saban Research Institute of CHLA
John D. Carpten, PhD, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Leslie A. Saxon, MD, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Maja J. Matarić, PhD, Viterbi School of Engineering of USC
Juan Espinoza, MD, The Saban Research Institute of CHLA; Keck School of Medicine of USC
John P. Wilson, PhD, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences of USC