Scholarship Committee Meeting

beau hilton, 2023-04-21

Scholarship Committee Meeting

beau hilton, 2023-04-21

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Background

undergrad = anthropology + musicology + activism == ethnomusicology

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Background

ethnomusicology + lasers + MATLAB == ?

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Background

automated quantitative differential diagnosis, explainable ML

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Background

hello anthro, my old friend

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Career goals

clinical oncologist

head/neck/esophagus

data scientist

computational anthropology, metascience

(🦒 + 🤖)

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Current project

(click here)

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Where in the world is hematology?

¹Gómez-De León

~5000 abstracts reviewed, ~500 had author from LMICs — ~5000 abstracts reviewed, ~500 had author from LMICs¹

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Right [patient, drug, time, dose, route, place]

Léon Tshilolo, MD, PhD. ASH 2018, speaking on hydroxyurea in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Myopia

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Current project

automate the extraction and structuring of all ~100k abstracts

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Current project

keep it public, keep it safe

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Current project

analysis pipeline

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Current project

BYOA (bring your own analysis)

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Planned analyses

trends
- geographic
- chronologic
- topologic
- ontologic
- biographic
disparities
- e.g. overlay maps of the disease itself (incidence, morbidity, etc.) and research about that disease
funding/resource allocation
- link with National Clinical Trial number (NCT)

h/t Hans Rosling

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Next steps

finalize data structure
rewrite web scraper
redundant data storage
analyses (interactive)
automatic updates
abstract submission to ASCO (Feb 2024), ASH (Aug 2024)
manuscript (mid 2024)

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Mentorship committee

Clinical Mentors

Dr Jennifer Choe (HN)
Dr Mike Gibson (HN/UGI)
alternate clinics

Research Mentors

Dr Travis Osterman (primary, local, EMR, structured pt journeys)
- 1:1 meetings at least monthly
Dr Jeremy Warner (second primary, abroad, HemOnc.org, ontology)
- 1:1 meetings at least q2mo
Dr Josh Peterson (Directer, Center for Precision Medicine, sequencing across large populations, clinical decision support)
- hope to meet soon

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Other current projects

multiomics for sarcoma (PI: Osterman)
extreme biometry database (validated extremes in lab and radiographic parameters, to be used for data cleaning and exploration)

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Future directions in fellowship

Goal 1: Develop clinical expertise in HN/UGI

Goal 2: Develop funding sources

early/training awards - e.g. T15
later awards - e.g. ITCR U01, U24, etc.
Links to relevant, current available FOA: Enhancement & Dissemination, Sustainment, Biomedical Data Repository, Biomedical Knowledgebase

Goal 3: ?Pursue clinical informatics fellowship

-> MS-ACI [21mo program]
r/b discussion ongoing (e.g. qualify for T15, opportunity cost)

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Discuss!

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moar slides follow, use prn

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Challenges

Structure, standards

https://schema.datacite.org
FAIR
- Findable
- Accessible
- Interoperable
- Reusable

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Challenges

`robots.txt`

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Challenges

missing, incomplete, wrong

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Challenges

Web scraping is the bug. Not sure who the other guy is.

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Challenges (also a feature)

If you can write SQL, you can analyze the data.

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Challenges (also a feature)

ChatGPT to the rescue?

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