Program

BD 2019 Program

Sunday, May 26
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:30-09:15	Registration and Gathering
08:30-09:15
09:15-10:45	Opening Session
09:15-10:00	Opening Remarks: Eran Segal Professor, Computer Science Department Weizmann Institute of Science Joao Monteiro Chief Editor, Nature Medicine Yitzhak Hen Professor, Department of General History Ben-Gurion University Moshe Bar Siman Tov Director General of the Ministry of Health of Israel
10:00-10:45	Keynote: Jeff Dean, Google The Potential of AI in Healthcare
10:45-11:15	Coffee Break
10:45-11:15
11:15-13:00	Session 1
11:15-11:50	Zhengming Chen, Biobank Kadoorie China, University Oxford Realising the power of big biobanks in diverse populations
11:50-12:25	Eran Segal, Weizmann Institute of Science Harnessing big data for personalized medicine
12:25-13:00	Noémie Elhadad , Columbia University Lecture
13:00-14:15	Lunch
13:00-14:15
14:15-15:25	Session 2
14:15-14:50	Ran Balicer, Clalit Health Services Transforming healthcare with big data and AI: When the rubber meets the road
14:50-15:25	Suchi Saria, Johns Hopkins University Lecture
15:25-16:15	Panel Discussion
15:25-16:15	Jeff Dean, Isaac Kohane, Robert Gentleman, Rachel Ramoni Panel discussion
16:15-16:45	Coffee Break
16:15-16:45
16:45-18:30	Session 3
16:45-17:20	Nigam Shah, Stanford University Good machine learning for better healthcare
17:20-17:55	Uri Shalit, Technion Predicting individual-level treatment effects in patients: challenges and proposed best practices
17:55-18:30	Yaniv Erlich , Chief Science Officer, MyHeritage and Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University. MyHeritage Health
18:30-20:30	Cocktail Dinner
18:30-20:30

Monday, May 27
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:30-09:00	Registration and Gathering
08:30-09:00
09:00-10:45	Session 4
09:00-09:35	Rachel Ramoni, Million Veterans program Mine is Big ? Ours is Bigger: Million Veteran Program and the Case for Coordinated Collaboration
09:35-10:10	Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley Using machine learning to understand and improve physician decision making
10:10-10:45	Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science Modeling ageing in longitudinal electronic health records
10:45-11:15	Coffee Break
10:45-11:15
11:15-13:00	Session 5
11:15-11:50	Robert Gentleman, 23andme Big Data Meets Drug Target Discovery
11:50-12:25	Isaac Kohane, Harvard Medical School Turning the muddy waters of big data into wine
12:25-13:00	Eyal Toledano, Zebra medical Transforming Medical Imaging with AI
13:00-14:15	Lunch
13:00-14:15
14:15-15:50	Session 6
14:15-14:40	Rohan Hastie, Metabolon Realizing the Power of Big Data with Metabolomics
14:40-15:15	Varda Shalev, Maccabi Health Services Big data- from research to value
15:15-15:50	Miguel Hernan, Harvard University How do we learn what works? A two-step algorithm for causal inference from healthcare data
15:50-16:20	Coffee Break
15:50-16:20
16:20-18:05	Session 7
16:20-16:55	Ron Milo, Weizmann Institute of Science The number of human and bacteria cells in the body and their turnover rates
16:55-17:30	Ronan Lyons, HDR UK Distributed Team Science: real world and cohort data
17:30-18:05	Barbara Engelhardt, Princeton Challenges and opportunities for reinforcement learning for treating hospital patients
18:05-18:15	Closing Remarks
18:05-18:15
18:15-20:30	Dinner
18:15-20:30

Tuesday, May 28
Time	Session/Lecture info
09:00-13:00	Morning tutorial
09:00-10:15	Miguel Hernan, Harvard University Comparative Effectiveness of Dynamic Treatment Strategies: The renaissance of the g-formula
10:15-10:30	Coffee Break,
10:30-11:45	Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley What’s new about machine learning? a framework for thinking about how ML is different from traditional statistical tools (prediction vs causation), what it does well and what it does poorly, and a few illustrative applications in health.
11:45-13:00	Barbara Engelhardt, Princeton Gaussian processes for inpatient hospital data

In collaboration with

Sponsor:

The Chorafas Institute for Scientific Exchange

Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

Organizing committee

Eran Segal
Weizmann Institute of Science
Joao Monteiro
Chief Editor, Nature Medicine

Conference Coordinator

Inbal Azoulay
inbal.azoulay@weizmann.ac.il

Program

BD 2019 Program

Sunday, May 26

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Organizing committee

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