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Ritu Khare

Ritu Khare is a Research Fellow with the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She conducts health informatics research focused on data and text mining, natural language processing, information extraction, and data integration. Her ongoing projects include drug indication …

Prasanna Desikan

Prasanna Desikan is currently Senior Research Scientist at Division of Applied Research, Office of Clinical Excellence, Allina Health. Previously he worked in Boston Scientific on advanced remote patient monitoring system. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Researcher for Infobionics Inc, based in Eden …

Akhil Kumar

Akhil Kumar is a Professor of Information Systems at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has previously been on the faculties at Cornell University and the University of Colorado. His research …

Simon Lin

Simon Lin is Director of the Biomedical Informatics Research Center at Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation and he holds the Dr. John Melski Endowed Physician Scientist at Marshfield Clinic. With more than 40 full time employees, the Biomedical Informatics Research Center (BIRC) at the Marshfield Clinic …

Rebecca Chiu

Rebecca Chiu heads up Business Development for MedHelp, the leading online social media and mobile health platform. She works with strategic partners to help them engage patients and personalize their services, as well as building the partner ecosystem for MedHelp’s platform service. Before MedHelp, Ms. …

Christopher C. Yang

Christopher C. Yang is an associate professor in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. His recent research interests include healthcare informatics, social intelligence and technology, Web search and mining, knowledge management, and information visualization. He has published over 230 referred journal and …

Aniruddha Datta

Aniruddha Datta received the B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1985, the M.S.E.E. degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 1987 and the M.S. (Applied Mathematics) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California in 1991. In August 1991, he …

Brian T. Cunningham

Brian T. Cunningham is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also serves as the Interim Director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, and as Director of the …

Mikulas Chavko

Mikulas Chavko received the Masters degree in Physical Chemistry from Czech Technical University in Prague and PhD degree in Biochemistry from University of Veterinary Medicine in Kosice, Czechoslovakia. Dr. Chavko had been involved in research related to mechanisms of ischemic brain and spinal cord damage …

Usmah Kawoos

Usmah Kawoos (S ’05-M ’09) received the B.E. degree in medical electronics from the Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India, in 2002, the M.S. and Ph.D degree in biomedical engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Dr. Kawoos  is currently working as …

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