4  Publications

4.1 Conferences & Workshops

• Organizer, ICBO 2022: International Conference on Biomedical Ontology – Sept. 2022, Ann Arbor, MI
• Organizer, Workshop on COVID-19 Ontologies (WCO 2020) – Oct 2020
• Organizer, Natural Language Processing Workshop – AMIA 2016, 2017
• Organizer, Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2015) – July 2015, ICBO 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
• Co-chair, 5th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO’14) – October 2014, Houston, TX
• Health 2.0 code-a-thon – Mentor – March 2013, Houston, TX
• Building Ontologies for Clinical and Translational Research – Tutorial and Workshop – June 2011, Emory University, Atlanta

4.2 Invited talks

• Design in the era of Big Data (and AI) – April 2019, EPFL/Campus Biotech, Geneva
• ESMO2018: Real World Evidence & Quality Improvement Workshop – October 2018, Novartis, Munich
• An Ontologist journey into CDISC land – November 2014, FDA workshop
• Big Data for Personalized Medicine – May 2013, Houston Technology Center
• SMART Content for Health: harnessing the power of medical taxonomy to build clinically intelligent applications – June 2012, American Society for Microbiology
• Panel discussion: Making Semantics Work – May 2012, Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting
• Clinical Data Integration: Challenges & Solutions – July 2011, Southeast Regional NBS & Genetics Collaborative (SERC/SERGG) Annual Meeting
• Application Ontologies – December 2010, Cleveland Clinic
• Developing an Application Ontology for the Sleep Domain – April 2010, National Center for Biomedical Ontology

4.3 Publications

• Ontology in Healthcare: a Survey - presentation in Jan 2023, Data Day Texas 2023
• Clinical Decision Support, AI, and Ontology – March 2022, 8th CTSOntology Workshop
• CIDO: The Community-based Coronavirus Infectious Disease Ontology – ICBO 2020
• Work Domain Ontology – presentation in Sept. 2017 at the Clinical & Translation Science Ontology annual workshop, Buffalo, NY
• Summarizing and Visualizing Structural Changes during the Evolution of Biomedical Ontologies Using a Diff Abstraction Network – J Biomed Inform. 2015 Aug;56:127-44. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2015.05.018. Epub 2015 Jun 3. PubMed PMID: 26048076; PMCID: PMC4532611
• Biomedical imaging ontologies: A survey and proposal for future work – J Pathol Inform. 2015 Jun 23;6:37. doi: 10.4103/2153-3539.159214. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 26167381
• Auditing Redundant Import in Reuse of a Top Level Ontology for the Drug Discovery Investigations Ontology – ICBO 2013, Montreal, Canada
• ONSTR: The Ontology for Newborn Screening Follow-up and Translational Research – ICBO 2013, Montreal, Canada
• Choosing the Granularity of Abstraction Networks for Orientation and Quality Assurance of the Sleep Domain Ontology – ICBO 2013, Montreal, Canada
• Proceedings of the ICBO2013 Workshops: International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2013)
• ClinicalKey: Terminology driven Semantic Search – demo at ICBO 2012, Graz, Austria
• Graph-Based Methods for Discovery Browsing with Semantic Predications – AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011; 2011: 1514–1523. PMCID: PMC3243228
• Design patterns for Clinical Application Ontologies – presentation at Semtech 2011, San Francisco
• Mapping multi-institution data sources to domain ontology for data federation: the PhysioMIMI approach – 2011 CRI Summit, American Medical Informatics Association, San Francisco
• Segmenting and Merging Domain-specific Ontology Modules for Clinical Informatics – paper at 2010 Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), Toronto, Canada
• VISAGE: A Query Interface for Clinical Research – AMIA Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2010 Mar 1;2010:76-80. PubMed PMID: 21347154; PubMed Central PMCID:PMC3041531
• Developing a Sleep Domain Ontology – poster at 2010 AMIA TBI/CRI Summit, San Francisco
• Developing a Sleep Domain Ontology – presentation in Sept. 2009 at the SSFW09 Workshop, Milan, Italy
• The Infective Endocarditis Ontology and SemanticDB – presentation in Sept. 2008 at the Infectious Disease Ontology [IDO] 2008 Workshop, Buffalo, NY
• Reasoning with clinical exam and laboratory findings: The Cleveland experience – presentation in Sept. 2008 at the Ontology of Clinical Phenotypes Workshop, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
• Semantic Integration of Clinical Data for Outcomes Research and Reporting – poster at 2007 AMIA Annual Conference
• Infectious Disease Ontology [IDO] workshop – Sept. 2007, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, Cold Springs Hbr., NY