Sep 1, 2018
Host: Randa Perkins, MD, FAMIA, is the
Chief Medical Information Officer at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer
Center in Tampa, FL.
Guest Interview: Carol Friedman, PhD, FACMI,
is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University.
She is also the 2017 AMIA Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence
winner, which is only awarded to the most distinguished
informaticians. Dr. Friedman is recognized within the biomedical
domain as a pioneer in Natural Language Processing (NLP). She was
the first researcher to demonstrate the value of NLP for a broad
range of clinical and biomedical applications, and was also one of
the first to demonstrate that a general NLP system could be used to
improve patient care. She has more than 125 publications and has
been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics, the
National Academy of Medicine, and the New York Academy of Medicine.
She has also been honored with the AMIA Donald A.B. Lindberg Award
for Innovation in Biomedical Informatics.
Topics:
Natural language processing
Juggling career and family
Perseverance