[Asis-l] Talk by NLM’s Valerie Florance on biomedical big data workforce and research needs to be broadcast via Livestream

[Perales, Katherine Pearl]

NLM Associate Director Valerie Florance to speak on workforce and research needs for biomedical big data at UNC-Chapel Hill
Valerie Florance, Associate Director of the National Library of Medicine, NIH, will deliver a talk titled, “Data Science-Workforce and Research Needs for Biomedical Big Data,” on Friday, September 25, at 2 p.m. EST at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The presentation will be available via Livestream at http://livestream.com/unc-sils.

Abstract: With the appointment of its first Assistant Director for Data Science in 2013, the NIH launched a multimillion dollar initiative “Big Data to Knowledge,” that is funding research and training in the area of biomedical big data science. More recently, a working group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) developed a vision for the future of the National Library of Medicine, proposing that it become the "epicenter of data science at NIH."  This talk will explore some of the opportunities for biomedical informaticians, computer scientists, librarians and other information specialists in this unfolding scenario, and seek insights from the audience about the next steps.

For more information visit, sils.unc.edu/events/2015/nlm-data-sci. The talk is co-sponsored by the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS)<http://sils.unc.edu/>, the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS)<https://tracs.unc.edu/>, and the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP)<http://chip.unc.edu/>.



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