{"603993":{"#nid":"603993","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Precision Medicine Retreat Held at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Precision Medicine day-long retreat took place on March 2 at the Georgia Tech TSRB building.\u0026nbsp; The retreat, organized and facilitated by Deirdre Shoemaker, was the first step toward establishing strong connections between Emory University and Georgia Tech at the intersection of data science and precision medicine. The retreat was hosted by Srinivas Aluru, the co-executive director of IDEaS at Georgia Tech, and Lance Waller, the chair of the department of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe morning involved hearing about the opportunities and challenges related to precision medicine and data science from Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s and Emory\u0026rsquo;s points of view, with Srinivas Aluru, Krish Roy, Jon Duke, Greg Gibson, and May Wang delivering for Georgia Tech and Lance Waller, Mike Zwick (presented by Lance Waller), Vicki Hertzberg and Arshed Quyyumi delivering for Emory. The afternoon was devoted to break-out sessions to identify critical needs and paths forward.\u0026nbsp; Several action items were identified.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEvent participants and affiliations:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDeirdre Shoemaker (professor in the School of Physics, College of Science at Georgia Tech)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESrinivas Aluru (professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, and co-executive director of IDEaS at Georgia Tech)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EKrish Roy (Robert A. Milton Endowed Chair, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJon Duke (director of Health Analytics and Informatics at GTRI at Georgia Tech)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EGreg Gibson (professor in the School of Biological Sciences in the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMay Wang (associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ELance Waller (Rollins Professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMike Zwick (associate professor in the departments of Human Genetics and Pediatrics in the School of Medicine at Emory University)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EVicki Hertzberg (professor of\u0026nbsp;Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EArshed Quyyumi (professor of medicine, Division of Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Precision Medicine day-long on March 2 at Georgia Tech established connections between Emory University and Georgia Tech at the intersection of data science and precision medicine. "}],"uid":"27343","created_gmt":"2018-03-19 18:38:16","changed_gmt":"2018-03-19 18:39:49","author":"Jennifer Salazar","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594883":{"id":"594883","type":"image","title":"Institute for Data Engineering and Science","body":null,"created":"1503522744","gmt_created":"2017-08-23 21:12:24","changed":"1504816895","gmt_changed":"2017-09-07 20:41:35","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226996","name":"IDEaS_placeholder.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IDEaS_placeholder_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IDEaS_placeholder_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":453440,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IDEaS_placeholder_0.jpg?itok=dDwvaSa_"}}},"media_ids":["594883"],"groups":[{"id":"545781","name":"Institute for Data Engineering and Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJennifer Salazar\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\njsalazar@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}