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Duke Datathon 2025

Symposium: Fri, April 25, 2025 | Datathon: Sat-Sun, April 26-27, 2025

In person at the Duke Health Center for Interprofessional Education and Care (IPEC) Building

Link to registration here

 

Overview

Impact critical care in new ways at the upcoming Datathon! From Duke Critical Care Informatics, the Datathon is a collaborative two-day event that connects critical care clinicians with data scientists to develop pragmatic data-driven models using de-identified critical care electronic health record datasets. The theme is “Data Science in Critical/Acute Care.”

Using de-identified critical care electronic health record datasets (e.g., MIMIC, eICU), we will develop new projects in 36 hours, from problem to abstract (and more)!

Participants will be organized into teams that are half-data science, half-clinical. You do not need to have a team; we will help you find a team. Questions will be crowdsourced. No experience is required.

• If you’re a clinician, your interest, but not expertise, in data science is required.
• If you’re a data scientist, your interest, but not expertise, in healthcare and critical care is required.

Registration open to academic institutions in Dec 2024.  Registration rates will increase in Feb 2025.

 

Registration

Early registration fees (until February 28) are structured as follows:

• Data Science: Faculty & Community/Industry – $200.00
• Clinical: Faculty & Community/Industry – $200.00
• Data Science: Staff – $150.00
• Clinical: Staff – $150.00
• Data Science: Trainee – $50.00
• Clinical: Trainee – $50.00

Please register early! Registration fees will increase starting on March 1.

 

Sponsorship

We thank the following sponsors for their support: Duke AI Health; CHoRUS (Clinical Care AI through the CHoRUS Network); Society of Critical Care Medicine; Duke Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics; Duke Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science (MIDS); Duke University Division of Anaesthesia / Critical Care.

 

Opportunities for sponsorship are still available and are structured as follows:

• Bronze-level sponsorship ($5k): position for tabletop display and signage and recognition as a snack sponsor.
• Silver-level sponsorship ($10k): position for tabletop display and signage, recognition as a coffee-break sponsor and 3 reserved registrations.
• Gold-level sponsorship ($20k): preferred position for tabletop display and signage, recognition as a meal break sponsor and 5 reserved registrations.
• Platinum-level sponsorship ($30k): prime position for tabletop display and signage, recognition as a meal sponsor, invitation to reception with opportunity to address attendees and 10 reserved registrations.
• All sponsors receive acknowledgement in datathon marketing materials
• All sponsors receive verbal recognition each day by meeting host

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Ian Wong, MD, PhD (a.ian.wong@duke.edu)

 

Event directors:

Ian Wong, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Medicine; Assistant Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Ricardo Henao, PhD; Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

 

Read more at https://sites.duke.edu/datathon2025/

(including Colab Notebooks, resources from previous datathons, and other information)

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A successful poster session held at the Duke’s School of Nursing this past March marked the completion of a new writing workshop series conducted by the Duke AI Health Community of Practice. This initiative, titled “Foundations of Scientific Writing for Staff Members,” was focused on helping operational staff develop and extend their scientific and scholarly communication skills.

“Although we made use of a traditional lecture-style format, we also designed the series with an eye to interactivity and student participation,” said Jonathan McCall, MS, communications director for Duke AI Health.

McCall, who helped lead the didactic portions of the workshops, went on to note that the organizers didn’t want the virtual classes, held via Zoom, to consist solely of “talking head” instruction.

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“I’m thrilled to witness the growth and enthusiasm among participants as they honed their scientific writing skills throughout the workshop series,” said project manager Jessica Johnstone, who helped organize and run the workshop series while also participating in it as learner.

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“Our goal for this workshop series was to create a valuable addition to our employees’ training and development,” said workshop organizer Shelley Rusincovitch, MMCi, FAMIA, managing director of Duke AI Health and co-director of the CTSI Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS) Pillar. “We’re very glad to see this program succeed and we appreciate the support of CTSI’s leadership in making it possible.”

 

 

Input from ChatGPT (chat.openai.com) was used to revise and edit this article.

Duke Health Data Science Poster Showcase
Happening tomorrow: Friday, December 8, 2023 |  11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Eastern time)
In person at the Sarah Duke Gardens, Kirby Horton Hall

The fall 2023 Health Data Science Poster Showcase will highlight the transformative work in health data science happening all across Duke. We’re excited that the showcase will feature 54 posters – our largest-ever showcase – with participation by departments, centers, and institutes from all across Duke.

We will serve a light lunch from 11:00-1:00, and we invite you to join the group photo at 12:00 PM and the poster award presentations at 12:30 PM. You can drop in for a few minutes, or stay for the entire time!

All are welcome, and we invite you to join us! Please do feel free to share and forward to others.

The event will be held in the Sarah Duke Gardens, in the visitor center Kirby Horton Hall (420 Anderson Street, Durham, NC 27708). This is just a short walk from the main hospital and clinics, and close to the C1 and H1 Duke Transit Routes. Free, reserved parking for this event is next to the building (through the Anderson Street entrance).