Electronic Health Records: Challenges from a bioinformatics perspective

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Approximate schedule:

6:30: doors open, 🍕🍻
6:45: chitchat, announcements
7:00: talk starts

Our upcoming gathering is approaching fast and is all about Electronic Health Records! Dr. Aylin Cakiroglu, our invited speaker, will start the discussion on EHR, and more specifically about the challenges and opportunities from a bioinformatics perspective. This meetup will also include exciting announcements so don't miss out!

Dr. Cakiroglu is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Nick Luscombe’s Computational Biology and Bioinformatics laboratory, at the Francis Crick Institute.

While her background is in pure mathematics (PhD), her work now focuses on understanding how variation in certain genetic regions affects gene expression. To answer these questions, she leverages machine learning methods such as deep neural networks to sequencing data. Her research also includes developing methods to integrate time-dependent clinical and genetic data to understand the underlying biological mechanisms.

We are looking forward to an intriguing discussion about challenges but also insights in best practices.

Selected publications from our speaker:

1. Denaxas S, Direk K, Gonzalez-Izquierdo A, Pikoula M, Cakiroglu A, Moore J, et al. “Methods for enhancing the reproducibility of biomedical research findings using electronic health records”. BioData Min. 2017;10:31. doi:10.1186/s13040-017-0151-7.2.

2. Barrett JE, Cakiroglu A, Bunce C, Shah A, Denaxas S. “Selective recruitment designs for improving observational studies using electronic health records”. 2019. http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06676.