4TH IIC/OPEN HEALTH SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM

 

Biomedical Data Sciences – New Name with New Opportunities for Change?

Lead presentation by Prof. Philip E. Bourne, Stephenson Dean of the School of Data Science, Professor of Data Science & Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, USA

 

Discussants: Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, Architect of India’s initiative in supercomputing and Chancellor, Nalanda University, Bihar; Dr. B. Jayaram, Professor Emeritus, Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems; and Dr. Jefferey Buchsbaum, Radiation Oncologist and Programme Director, Radiation Research Programme, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda

 

Chair: Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology

 

Biomedicine, always at the forefront of open data aggregation and reuse, is now being influenced by other fields where the application of data science is rapidly expanding. What are other fields telling us and what do we, scientists, funders and governments need to do differently to instill a cultural change, which is never easy?