2019 Symposium Highlights (slideshow)

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2019 Symposium Highlights (slideshow)

Vicki Ellingrod, PharmD, FCCP, introduced the event. Ellingrod leads Precision Health's Education & Training Workgroup, which organized the Symposium.
Precision Health Co-Director Sachin Kheterpal, MD, MBA, welcomes guests and presents Precision Health's goals and milestones.
Marschall S. Runge, MD, PhD--Dean of U-M Medical School, Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs, and CEO of Michigan Medicine--gave opening remarks.
Gonçalo Abecasis, DPhil, Vice President of Analytical Genomics & Data Sciences at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, delivered the keynote address.
Scholars Awardees took part in a Three-Minute Thesis competition at the event. Here, Ellingrod provides voting instructions.
Scholar Abhinav Achreja, PhD, won second place in the Three-Minute Thesis competition and was the People's Choice winner. His poster also won first place among Scholars in the category "Most Potential To Be Transformative."
Mariel Lavieri, MS, PhD, Associate Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering, presented as part of the morning's moderated panel discussion.
Lavieri was joined on the panel by Michael Dorsch, MS, PharmD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy (left), and Srijan Sen, MD, PhD, the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Professor of Depression and Neurosciences (right).
Scholars and Investigators Awardees, as well as precision-health-related programs and initiatives, presented their work during the poster session.
Awanti Sambarey, PhD, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biomedical Engineering, presents on optimizing combination therapies for tuberculosis--the work of Investigator Sriram Chandrasekaran, PhD. At the Symposium, the poster won first place among Investigators for "Most Potential To Be Transformative."
Investigator Kenneth Alex Shorter, PhD, stands near his poster "Understanding Cardiac Health Through Innovative Wearable Sensing."
Scholar Aaron Morris, MS, MPhil, PhD, won first place in the Three-Minute Thesis competition and second place in the Scholars poster competition for "Most Potential To Be Transformative."
In the afternoon, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, MD, Co-Lead of Precision Health's Data Analytics & IT Workgroup, had a "fireside" chat with H.V. Jagadish, PhD, Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science.
Vanderbilt's Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI--Vice President for Health Equity, Associate Dean for Health Equity, and Associate Professor of Medicine--was the afternoon's special guest speaker.
Representatives from the Department of Learning Health Sciences and the Medical School data Office were on hand to discuss, respectively, Precision Health's Graduate Certificate Program and Analytics Platform.
The daylong event was held in the NCRC Dining Hall in Building 18.

June 20, 2019

Precision Health’s inaugural symposium on May 29 drew more than 100 attendees from across campus. Featured guest speakers, a panel discussion, a competitive poster session, lunch, and a Three Minute Thesis competition were among the activities that made the day a success.

Awards:

Most Interdisciplinary (Investigators) Poster:
1st place: Scott Peltier and Ben Hampstead
2nd place: Stephanie Bielas and Stephen Parker

Most Potential To Be Transformative (Investigators) Poster:
1st place: Sriram Chandrasekaran and Awanti Sambarey
2nd place: Scott Peltier and Ben Hampstead

Most Potential To Be Transformative (Scholars) Poster:
1st place: Abhinav Achreja
2nd place: Aaron Morris

Three-Minute Thesis Competition (Scholars):
1st place: Aaron Morris
2nd place: Abhinav Achreja
People’s Choice: Abhinav Achreja