Philip Payne, chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Ohio State University, will kick off this year’s Health Informatics Seminar Series; his talk is scheduled for 4 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 20, in Fretwell Building, Room 126.
An internationally recognized leader in the field of clinical research informatics, Payne has authored more than 140 publications focusing on the intersection of biomedical informatics and the clinical and translational science domains. He received his Ph.D. with distinction in biomedical informatics from Columbia University.
In his Aug. 20 presentation, Payne will explore the emergent priorities in the areas of health care transformation, big data, systems thinking and translational science. He also will review the origins and history of the current state-of-the-art in biomedical informatics including the learning health care system, cognitive and predictive analytics and translational bioinformatics.