HOBI Grand Rounds has continuously hosted renowned speakers, scientists and educators from across the country to present the latest research, trends and perspectives on health outcomes, implementation science and biomedical informatics.
Explore our archive of past speakers and presentations below. Links to video recordings of presentations are provided when available.
Fall 2024
Click on a photo to view larger size with caption, and scroll through the series. Photos courtesy of HOBI student Aman Pathak.
- September 11 | Leng Han, PhD
Indiana University School of Medicine
“Harnessing Big Data for Precision Medicine”
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- August 14 | Pedro Valdes-Hernandez, PhD
University of Florida College of Dentistry
“Presenting Advancing Mechanistic Clinical Research through Neuroimformatics and Ai”
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Spring 2024
- April 10 | Xiaobo Zhou, PhD
UTHealth Houston
“Computational Systems Medicine: Present and Future Perspectives.”
WATCH RECORDING - March 20 | Katilya Ware, PhD, RN
Auburn University
“Bridging Gaps and Transforming Outcomes: Advancing Black Maternal Healthcare”
WATCH RECORDING - February 14 | Xuhong Zhang, PhD
Indiana University Bloomington
“Optimizing Medical Imaging in Resource Constrained Settings” - January 31 | Andria B. Eisman, PhD
Wayne State University
“Maximizing Impact and Minimizing Costs: A pragmatic perspective on economic evaluation of implementation strategies in communities”
Fall 2023
- December 1 | Zhongming Zhao, PhD
UT Health Houston
“The Road to Precision Health: Harnessing Big Data” - November 15 | Jonathan Bricker, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; University of Washington
“Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence for Addressing Health Disparities” - October 11 | Shyam Visweswaran, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
“Development of Clinical Decision Support at an Academic Medical Center.” - September 13 | Yunlong Liu, PhD
Indiana University’s School of Medicine
“Roles of Regulatory Variants in Complex Diseases”
Spring 2023
- January 10 – Ronald I. Shorr, MD, MS, Department of Epidemiology and Director, Geriatric Research Education & Clinical Center (GRECC), Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, “Fall Prevention in Hospitals: A Matter of Balance”
- February 6 – Carla Fisher, PhD, UF College of Journalism & Communications, Director of UF’s Family·Health·Lifespan Communication Lab and a member of the UF Health Cancer Center, “Family-Centered Psychosocial Oncology Care: Helping Families Engage in Health-Promoting Communication Across the Lifespan and Disease Continuum” CTRB 2161 and via Zoom
- February 14 – Daniel Almirall, PhD, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, “Multi-level Adaptive Implementation Strategies (MAISYs): Design Principles, Optimization Questions and Choosing the Right Experimental Design”
- March 21 – Qianqian Song, PhD, Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, “Data Driven Informatics Approaches for Advancing Precision Medicine”
Fall 2023
- August 9 – Lisa Carter-Harris, PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, “Why Lung Cancer Screening is a Process and Not a Yes/No Visit: Making the Case for Shared Decision-Making”
- September 15 – Gregor Stiglic, PhD, University of Maribor, Slovenia, “AI-based prediction models in primary healthcare”
- October 11 – Lawrence Hunter, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver, “Knowledge-based biomedical data science”
- November 15 – Skyler Johnson, MD, University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute, “Impacts, New Insights and Challenges of Cancer Misinformation”
Spring 2022
- January 11 – Todd Manini, PhD, Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, UF, “The Road Leading to ROAMM: Remote Online Assessment and Mobility Monitor.”
- February 8 – Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, “Opportunities to Advance Health Equity Through Implementation Science.”
- March 8 – Kun Huang, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, “Challenges and Opportunities in Informatics for Precision Medicine.”
- April 19 – Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, University of California, San Francisco and Emory University, “Achieving Health Equity: Naming Racism and Moving to Action.”
Fall 2021
- November 9 – Melanie Guldi, PhD, University of Central Florida, “Leveraging the RDC to analyze the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey (The Effects of Pregnancy-Related Medicaid Expansions on Maternal, Infant, and Child Health).”
- October 12 – Joshua Vest, PhD, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, “Assessment of Structured Data Elements for Use in Social Risk Factor Computable Phenotyping: A Delphi Panel Study.”
- September 14 – Timnit Gebru, PhD, Black in AI, “Behind the Fairness Rhetoric of Machine Learning.”
Spring 2021
- January 12 – Garry Bennett, PhD, Duke University, “Digitally Treating Obesity and Comorbidities among the Medically Vulnerable.”
- March 16 – Sara Birken, PhD, Wake Forest University, “Selecting and Applying Implementation Science Theories, Models and Frameworks.”
- April 13 – Alicia Fernandez, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, “Reflecting on COVID Disparities.”
- May 11 – Ziaogian Jiang, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center, “Recent Artificial Intelligence Applications in Biomedicine.”
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