Speaker Profile
Biography
Ms. Simona Carini is a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she specializes in healthcare informatics with a focus on data harmonization. Throughout her career, she has worked tirelessly to develop strategies that facilitate the seamless integration of diverse datasets, enhancing the scope and depth of research outcomes in the medical field. Ms. Carini brings to the table a deep understanding of the intricacies involved in harmonizing data from disparate sources, and a critical approach to querying this data to extract meaningful insights. Her expertise in leveraging big data to drive insights into complex health issues makes her a valuable voice in the ongoing discourse on the future of healthcare research.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2024 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- PMWC 2024 Luminary Award
Luminary Honoree: Heidi Rehm, MGH and Broad Institute
- Opening Talk: The Power of Data by Track Chair Gaddy Getz, Broad Institute
- Challenges of Remote Data Harmonization and Querying (PANEL)
Chair: Heidi Rhem, MGH and Broad Institute
- Andrea Ramirez, All of Us
- Simona Carini, UCSF
- Josh Peterson, Emerge/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Nara Sobreira, Johns Hopkins/GeneMatcher - Promoting Global Collaboration for Data Sharing: Overcoming Organizational and Sectoral Barriers (PANEL)
Chair: Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- Peter Goodhand, GA4GH
- Valentina Di Francesco, NHGRI
- Melanie Courtot, ICGC-ARGO
- Duncan MacCannell, CDC SPHERES Consortium
- Erica Galvez, Manifest MedEx - Keynote: Machine Learning for Therapeutic Discovery
- Daphne Koller, insitro
- Exploring the Power of AI and Data Sciences in Drug Discovery (PANEL)
Chair: Shweta Maniar, Google
- Kim Branson, GSK
- Laszlo Radvanyi, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- Sun-Gou Ji, BridgeBio
- Angela Oliveira Pisco, Insitro - Foundation Models to Advance Precision Medicine (PANEL)
Chair: Nigam Shah, Stanford
- Aashima Gupta, Google
- Matthew Lungren, Microsoft
- Rod Tarrago, AWS
- PMWC Showcase
- Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure