S4E5: Dr. Jon Duke's Journey in Health Informatics

On this episode, host Tanmay Shah chats with Dr. Jon Duke. He is the Director of the Health Emerging and Advanced Technologies Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Principal Research Scientist in the Georgia Tech College of Computing, and instructor for CS 6440 Graduate Intro to Health Informatics. He holds an MD from Harvard Medical School and a Master’s in Human Computer Interaction from Indiana University.  In this episode, you’ll hear about topics like healthcare data interoperability and large-scale health data analytics.  

TIMESTAMPS- 

(0:00) - Cold Open 

(1:22) - Episode Intro 

(2:21) - Pre-Med and History major 

(3:44) - Early interests in Japanese History 

(5:42) - Healthcare systems outside US 

(9:15) - Transitioning into Computing / HCI 

(17:55) - Regenstrief at Indiana University 

(23:08) - The OHDSI Project  

(29:03) - CHAI at Georgia Tech 

(37:10) - CS 6440 Health Informatics Course 

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