Program
Day 1
Tuesday, April 6
(All times are US Eastern Time)
12:00 pm ET – 12:15 pm ET
Advancing the State of the Art in Applied Natural Language Processing
David Talby – CTO at John Snow Labs
12:15 pm ET – 12.25 pm ET
Industry Survey Analysis: AI in Healthcare 2021
Paco Nathan – Evil Mad Scientist & Founder at Derwen AI
12:25 pm ET – 12:45 pm ET
Explainable Deep Learning for Automated Extraction from Free-Text Medical Reports to enable Precision Healthcare
Vishakha Sharma – Principal Data Scientist at Roche
12:45 pm ET – 1:05 pm ET
EHR Question Answering
Preethi Raghavan – Senior NLP Research Scientist at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
1:05 pm ET – 1:25 pm ET
Learning to Summarize Visits from Doctor-Patient Conversations
Zachary Lipton – Assistant Professor of Operations Research & Machine Learning at CMU
1:25 pm ET – 1:45 pm ET
Language based Pre-training for Drug Discovery
Bharath Ramsundar – Co-founder and CEO at Computable Labs
2:00 pm ET – 2:30 pm ET
Analyzing Biomedical and Clinical Text with the Stanza Python NLP Library
Yuhao Zhang – Researcher at Stanford University & Stanza Committer
Application of Spark NLP for Development of Multi-Modal Prediction Model from Electronic Healthcare Records
Sutanay Choudhury – Chief Scientist at PNNL
Training a Distributed Named Entity Recognition model for drug, disease and condition identification
Mukesh Mithrakumar – Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at IQVIA
2:35 pm ET – 3:05 pm ET
Sending BERT to Med School – Injecting Medical Knowledge into BERT
Rachel Wities – NLP Data Scientist at Zebra Medical Vision
Applying off-the-shelf NLP in healthcare? More dangerous than you think
Ayush Singh – Sr. NLP Machine Learning Engineer at Cigna
Benefits and challenges in de-identifying and linking unstructured records
Mark Ungerer – Head of Product at Datavant
Linda Chen – Strategic Partnerships Development Manager at John Snow Labs
3:10 pm ET – 3:40 pm ET
Accelerating clinical risk adjustment through Natural Language Processing
Fola Soyoye – Director of Product Management at iQuartic
Xue Yang – Data Scientist at iQuartic
Alina Petukhova – Data Scientist at John Snow Labs
Addressing Baumol’s Cost Disease in Healthcare with Machine Learning
Byung-Hak Kim – AI Technology Lead at AKASA
Linguistically informed NLP for healthcare experience data
Zach Childers – Data Science Lead at Press Ganey
3:45 pm ET – 4:15 pm ET
Understanding Human-Machine conversation patterns for seniors aging in place
Christopher Brousseau – Chief Technology Officer at TranZynergy
Burden Reduction – Use of NLP to provide assistive intelligence in documenting evidence-based guidelines
Sreenivas Reddy Mallipeddi – Principal Solution Architect at MCG Health LLC
Justin Allred – Actuary at Milliman
Patient Experience and Value-Based Care
Ram Gautam – Director, Software Engineering at Altais (Blue Shield of California)
Day 2
Wednesday, April 7
(All times are US Eastern Time)
12:00 pm ET – 12:25 pm ET
Connecting the Dots in Clinical Document Understanding and Information Extraction
Veysel Kocaman – Principal Data Scientist and ML Engineer at John Snow Labs
12:25 pm ET – 12.45 pm ET
The Language Interpretability Tool: Interactive analysis of NLP models
James Wexler – Staff Software Engineer at Google
12:45 pm ET – 1:05 pm ET
Secure collaborative learning using the MC^2 platform
Raluca Ada Popa – Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, CTO and co-founder at PreVeil
1:05 pm ET – 1:25 pm ET
AI for healthcare in the COVID-19 age: An online virtual care approach
Xavier Amatriain – Co-founder/CTO at Curai
1:25 pm ET – 1:45 pm ET
Accelerating Clinical Data Abstraction and Real-World Data Curation with Active Learning
Dia Trambitas – Product Lead at John Snow Labs
2:00 pm ET – 2:30 pm ET
Domain-Specific Language Model Pretraining for Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Hoifung Poon – Senior Director of Biomedical NLP at Microsoft
AI in Healthcare – Promise and Perils
Juggy Jagannathan – AI Evangelist at 3M|M*Modal
How This NLP-Driven Literature Search Engine Can Help In Extracting Relevant COVID Information For Medical Innovation
Prathamesh Karmalkar – Principal Data Scientist at Merck
2:35 pm ET – 3:05 pm ET
NLP aspects in medical records- from visit texts to medical concepts matrix
Moran Beladev – Senior ML Researcher at Diagnostic Robotics
AWS CORD-19 Search: A Neural Search Engine and Knowledge Graph for COVID-19 Literature
Parminder Bhatia – Applied Science Manager at Amazon Health AI
Best Practices in Improving NLP Accuracy for Clinical Use Cases
Rajesh Chamarthi – Senior Big Data Engineer at MetiStream
Veysel Kocaman– Lead Data Scientist at John Snow Labs
3:10 pm ET – 3:40 pm ET
Beyond Context: Answering Deeper Questions by Combining Spark NLP and Graph Database Analytics
Abhishek Mehta – Director Field Engineering at TigerGraph
Christian Kasim Loan – Senior Data Scientist at John Snow Labs
Sampling ADE’s: A Guide for Corpus Creation
Joseph Plasek – Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Mass General Brigham
NLP for scaling healthcare access to everyone
Anitha Kannan – Head of Machine Learning Research at Curai
3:45 pm ET – 4:15 pm ET
Use of NLP in Identifying the Risk Assessments of the Patients
Jayant Thomas – Sr. Director AI Engineering at Change Healthcare
Applying Open Q&A Systems as Knowledge Graph Entry Points
Rohan D’Souza – Chief Product Officer at Olive
Benjamin Elbert – Director of Engineering, Deep Purple at Olive
Using NLP for Diagnosis of Mental Health Disorders
Kfir Bar – Chief Scientist at Basis Tech
NLP Training
Spark NLP for Data Scientists
Training & Certification
April 1, 2021 – 9:00 to 12:00 PST
April 2, 2021 – 9:00 to 12:00 PST
Spark NLP for Healthcare Data Scientists
Training & Certification
Day 1: April 8, 2021 – 9:00 to 12:00 PST
Day 2: April 9, 2021 – 9:00 to 12:00 PST
Natural Language Processing for Business Leaders
Training
April 5, 2021 – 9:00 to 14:00 PST
