AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science (2017)

Posted on August 16, 2017January 31, 2019 by Dana Crawford

Dr. Dana Crawford presented both "Reducing clinical noise for body mass index measures due to unit and transcription errors in the electronic health record" and "Extracting country-of-origin from electronic health records for gene-environment studies as part of the Epidemiologic Architecture for Genes Linked to Environment (EAGLE)" at the 2017 AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science meeting San Francisco, CA.

AMIA Joint Summits talk on body mass index in the EHR (2017)

AMIA Joint Summits talk on country-of-origin in the EHR (2017)

A Belated Spring 2017 Update

Posted on August 11, 2017August 15, 2017 by Dana Crawford

As I stare at my calendar, I am realizing that classes start in two and a half weeks. Geez, where did the summer go? Wait—what happened to spring??? Well, technically I did post about the 2017 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) and the 2017 Joint Summits on Translational Science before 2018 rolled around, so I […]

2017 Joint Summits on Translational Science

Posted on July 8, 2017September 12, 2019 by Dana Crawford

Informatics in all its different forms has without a doubt risen in popularity over the last five to ten years. Informatics is not exactly new and as a discipline or professional society has been around for several decades, evolving with the increase in the importance of computers. The recent surge in its popularity and cross-disciplinary […]

An update on the Lacks family

Posted on April 18, 2017April 18, 2017 by Dana Crawford

Our second annual symposium featured members of the Henrietta Lacks family Shirley Lacks and Veronica (Robinson) Spencer. Ms. Lacks is the sister-in-law of the late Henrietta Lacks, and she was good friends with Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Veronica (Robinson) Spencer is the great-granddaughter of Henrietta Lacks. The Lacks family story has become and continues to be […]

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2017: the aloha lives on!

Posted on March 21, 2017July 17, 2020 by Dana Crawford

It’s the first day of spring, so you know what that means! It means I haven’t posted since winter! Grant, papers, classes…what can I say? I have been very busy, indeed! But, there’s always time for PSB. Always. If you have read my previous posts, you know all about PSB. For the uninitiated, the Pacific […]

Welcome to the Symposium Blog!

Posted on March 9, 2017March 9, 2017 by Dana Crawford

We have now organized two symposia focusing on big data and precision medicine topics with a third one in the works focusing on measuring exposures. In an effort to sustain the dialog initiated by each of these events, we are hosting a blog on this website. This blog will feature short opinion pieces and articles […]

Dr. Marylyn Ritchie and DiscovEHR

Posted on March 9, 2017February 18, 2018 by Dana Crawford

In biomedical research, “precision medicine” is the buzz-word or phrase du jour permeating the latest conference abstracts, manuscripts, and grant proposals. Precision medicine is broadly defined as using a data-driven approach to offer tailored treatments or prevention strategies to patients. The recent popularity of the precision medicine term is likely due to the 2015 White […]

Recent Reflections

Posted on January 15, 2017July 17, 2020 by Dana Crawford

We are well into 2017, and I have yet to post an update on the lab’s accomplishments as of the end of 2016. If you were a human being like the rest of us living in 2016, you probably feel the same as many of us about that year. It was a year very much […]

Faculty positions available at CWRU

Posted on December 28, 2016December 28, 2016 by Dana Crawford

We have a trio of open faculty positions available here at CWRU. The positions are within the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, with some having the opportunity for an additional appointment in the Institute of Computational Biology: Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty with Expertise in Biomedical Data Science Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Cancer Epidemiology Director of the MPH […]

American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2016 in Vancouver, Canada

Posted on December 22, 2016December 22, 2016 by Dana Crawford

This year’s American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) was held—where else?—in Vancouver, Canada! Our northern neighbors invited human geneticists far and wide for five days of presentations, networking, and some scientific fun. Of course, I hardly ever pass up the opportunity to attend this meeting. As I have written before, ASHG is a great place […]

The Million Veteran Program (MVP) Phenotype Workshop in Washington, DC, September 12-13, 2016

Posted on December 21, 2016April 17, 2018 by Dana Crawford

It has been a few months since my last post, so you might be asking, “Girl, what have you been up to lately?” Well, let me tell you…. The fall semester is always crazy busy. Classes begin. Our annual symposium is in full swing. And, the conferences. So many conferences. One unexpected meeting to hit […]

Gordon Research Conference 2016, Human Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms & Disease, Mount Holyoke College

Posted on October 5, 2016July 11, 2020 by Dana Crawford

As I alluded in my previous post, I was invited to give talks at two prestigious meetings this year. The second meeting was the Gordon Research Conference Human Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms & Disease conference “Understanding the Mechanisms of Variant Effects in the Era of Genome Sequencing” held at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts […]