May
23
Tue
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Nicole Bush @ Encina Hall, CISAC Central Conference Room
May 23 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Nicole Bush @ Encina Hall, CISAC Central Conference Room | Stanford | California | United States

Nicole Bush, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Associate Director of Research for the Division of Developmental Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
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“The Biological Embedding of Early Life Adversity: Intergenerational Transmission, Reversibility, and Population Health”

Mar
16
Fri
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Denis Newman-Griffis, NIH @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center
Mar 16 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Center for Population Health Sciences Seminar Series: Denis Newman-Griffis, NIH @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center | Stanford | California | United States

Natural language processing approaches to extracting patient functioning from clinical data
Natural language processing (NLP) has become a significant tool in clinical informatics research, leading to advances in electronic phenotyping, adverse drug event detection, and literature retrieval.  However, capturing information about patient functioning, recently proposed to join mortality and morbidity as a world indicator of health, is largely unexplored.  In this talk, I will present ongoing work in the NIH Clinical Center on developing NLP methods for extracting information on patient functioning from unstructured EHR data.  Considering disability adjudication as a motivating example, we analyze the distinguishing characteristics of the language of functioning, and describe development of the first clinical corpus annotated for functioning information.  A significant challenge to applying NLP methods to functioning is the lack of robust domain-specific knowledge sources; we present early work exploring unsupervised learning to adapt to this low-resource domain.  I will conclude with a roadmap for ongoing research in NLP for functioning.