Sunday, June 13, 2021

GHLC at JHU: Dr. Habibul Ahsan

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Dr. Habibul Ahsan, MD, Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor Director, Institute for Population and Precision Health at UChicago

Cancer and Precision Health:

- Institute for Population and Precision Health
    Epidemiology, early diagnosis and prevention
    Environmental health and genomics
    Cancer, CVD, diabetes, and respiratory disease
    COVID-19

Evolution of medicine



- Cancer is a growing public health threat
- Not enough funding
- Lower-income countries have higher mortality rates from cancer

Human health research study designs
    Laboratory-based mechanistic studies
    Observational
    Interventional

Small particulates are bad

Treatment is effective against things like arsenic and they are important

Key AI tools
-Supervised
    Artificial, convolutional, recurrent neural network
-Unsupervised
    Self-organizing maps, Boltzmann machine, auto-encoders

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