IQVIA Virtual NLP Summit 2022

Paolo is a data scientist at Chiesi Farmaceutici where he works primarily on scouting, testing and adopting new technologies, particularly in Big Data, AI and Machine Learning, also seeking optimum tools to improve scientific research and access to biomedical knowledge. Before joining Chiesi, Paolo obtained master’s in Data Science & Business Intelligence from University of Pisa, specializing in Natural Language Processing methodologies and applications.

Dr. Payne is the Janet and Bernard Becker Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Informatics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the Associate Dean for the Office of Health Information and Data Science as well as Chief Data Scientist for Washington University. He holds appointments as a Professor of General Medical Sciences and Computer Science and Engineering in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering and Applied Sciences respectively. In this capacity, he is responsible for the creation and oversight of comprehensive biomedical informatics and data science research, training, and support programs aligned with the health and life science enterprise spanning Washington University, BJC Healthcare, and a variety of regional partners.

Priya is a Senior Labeling Manager and member of the Global Labeling team at Sanofi. She began her career at Alexion Pharmaceuticals as a Regulatory CMC Professional. Since then, Priya has held multiple roles and responsibilities within the pharmaceutical industry including medical affairs, pharmacovigilance and consulting. She joined Sanofi in 2020 and has been co-leading the digital transformation process within the team to successfully develop Drug Label Explorer.

Soora Wi, MPH is a Consulting Manager for the Kaiser Permanente Regional Laboratory in Northern California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, San Diego, and his Master of Public Health (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from San Diego State University. He has over 30 years of combined worked years for Kaiser Permanente and the Permanente Medical Group and has led many research studies with data extraction, management, and analyses. He has co-authored several papers related to maternal and newborn health and played a key role in developing an online newborn sepsis calculator. In his current position, he serves much like a laboratory epidemiologist for clinical chemistry and anatomic pathology, providing data and analyses to improve patient care through quality testing. In 2021, he received the best abstract award from the American Association of Clinical Chemistry Informatics Division for his work using NLP and cervical biopsies.

Dr. Nirav Shah is an infectious disease physician at NorthShore University Healthsystem. He also functions as the Medical Director of Quality Innovation and Clinical Practice Analytics and the Program Director of Outcomes Research for Quality and Transformation. He works at the interface of informatics, analytics, innovation, quality and research.

Urmila Ravichandran is a data scientist at NorthShore University Health System. Her work is focused on clinical research, building predictive models to improve quality and patient care, and developing NLP solutions to improve data quality and drive outcomes.

Nadea is a Senior Director at IQVIA AI for Healthcare & MedTech team responsible for developing new AI offerings from idea generation to scalable solutions. Her responsibilities include research, business development, study design and deployment. She leverages her deep expertise in healthcare data and latest machine learning techniques to help solve complex challenges in healthcare, such as identifying undiagnosed patients with rare disease, predicting progression of diseases and response to treatment. 

Prior to that, Nadea led analytical research engagements that helped life sciences clients answer an array of business questions, spanning from market sizing to launch forecasting, to brand performance tracking post launch.  

Prior to focusing her career on healthcare, Nadea applied AI methodologies to studying determinants of flight delays in the Airline industry. 

Nadea holds an MSc in Applied Statistics from Villanova University. 

Matt is an Associate Product & Strategy Director at IQVIA AI for Healthcare & MedTech team responsible for implementation of new AI offerings deployed into clinician workflow. His responsibilities include business development, clinical use case ideation and content deployment within complex clinical workflow, aligning accountabilities within care team structure.  Matt brings an extensive background in clinical informatics and decision support enablement to solving problems associated with identifying and closing clinical gaps in alignment with best practices.   

Matt was previously a Director of Decision Support Enablement with Siemens Healthineers, responsible for deployment of provider-facing decision support for advanced imaging and Director of Innovation of Implementation at Geisinger Health.   

Matt holds a BSN from Bloomsburg University and Certificate in Nursing Informatics from Eastern University.   

David Milward is chief technology officer (CTO) at Linguamatics. He is a pioneer of interactive text mining, and a founder of Linguamatics. He has over 20 years experience of product development, consultancy and research in natural language processing (NLP). After receiving a PhD from the University of Cambridge, he was a researcher and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He has published in the areas of information extraction, spoken dialogue, parsing, syntax and semantics.​

John is a serial entrepreneur. After graduating in Law and Computer Science from Trinity College, Cambridge, he founded Jobstream Group plc, which provides specialist ERP software to the international financial services sector. Brimacombe subsequently co-founded pioneering mobile entertainment start-up nGame Ltd., which was acquired by Hands-On Mobile Inc. He served as President/COO of HandsOn Mobile for over 2 years, leading the company through 7 major M&A transactions and massive global expansion. In addition to an ongoing commitment to Jobstream, Brimacombe currently chairs the enterprise natural language search tools provider, Linguamatics, is a Partner at Sussex Place Ventures, the venture-capital arm of the London Business School, is a seed-investor in multiple US and UK start-ups and has extensive experience as a non-executive director from start-up to Public markets.​

Paul started at the company as an Application Specialist in 2005. In his role, he is responsible for product management, marketing, and strategy guidance of I2E, an award-winning agile, high performance enterprise text mining software. Paul also has responsibility for the I2E Web Services API, to allow integration of text mining capabilities into large-scale workflows. He has worked on many customer projects, including analysis of historical pre-clinical records, large-scale extraction of information from patents and semantic annotation for enterprise search. Paul has a PhD from University of Cambridge in computational drug design where his work involved developing algorithms to optimize combinatorial libraries for protein-ligand interactions. Before joining Linguamatics, Paul worked in the Cambridge biotech sector creating bioinformatics and chemoinformatics tools for processing of diverse large databases, including PDB, compound registries and PubMed.​

Dr. Calum Yacoubian is Associate Director of Healthcare Product & Strategy at Linguamatics, IQVIA. He is a medical doctor who trained and practiced in the UK before moving into medical technology. He has worked with Natural Language Processing in clinical data for over 5 years and is passionate about the potential for data to drive improved patient outcomes.  

Hywel has over 18 years of experience in consulting, analytics and data solutions with multi-industry experience across life science, health, consumer, manufacturing and retail. Hywel has applied his behavioural science expertise to the creation of real-world data analytics solutions for patient level data, developing NLP powered search and insights solutions, machine learning for predictive resource allocation and digital behavioural patient and HCP insights. Hywel holds a Master's degree in Engineering from Cambridge University. 

Jane Reed is Director of Life Science at Linguamatics. She is responsible for developing the strategic vision for Linguamatics’ growing product portfolio and business development in the life science domain. Jane has extensive experience in life science informatics. She worked for more than 15 years in vendor companies supplying data products, data integration and analysis, and consultancy to pharma and biotech—with roles at Instem, BioWisdom, Incyte, and Hexagen. Before moving into the life science industry, Jane worked in academia with post-docs in genetics and genomics.

Martin A.O. H. Menke graduated with a Diploma in Biology (Microbiology, Botany, and Biochemistry) at Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany, followed by 10 years of cancer research at the University hospitals in Kiel and Ulm, Germany (Departments of Haematopathology, Pathology, and Dermatology).

He started in Pharmacovigilance in 1999 as freelance for Merck programming a MedDRA Browser and doing case processing. From 2000 until 2014 he has been a (snr.) Pharmacovigilance Manager at Mundipharma in various roles including medical evaluation, head of case processing, business lead for implementation of a new PV data base and 5 years of PV Quality Management (SOPs, Compliance, and PV Contracts). During all this time, he was also responsible for monitoring the MedDRA coding quality.

In 2015 he moved to CSL Behring becoming the Global Medical Coding Lead in Nov 2015 responsible for the Medical Concept Management in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance and is monitoring MedDRA coding quality.

In this role he is supporting case processing, signal detection, and risk management processes. This includes leading projects to evaluate the use of NLP in MedDRA coding.

Martin has been active with the European MedDRA User Community as part of the EU-User Group Steering Committee since 2009 and became chair of the MedDRA Focus group in March 2017.

Gabriela is a Senior Labeling Manager and member of the Global Labeling team at Sanofi. She began her career at Novartis as a Regulatory Affairs Analyst for Central America and the Caribbean. Since then, Gabriela has held multiple roles and responsibilities within the pharmaceutical industry including specialty care, consumer healthcare, generics, CMC and labeling. She joined Sanofi in 2016 and has been co-leading the digital transformation process within the team to successfully develop Drug Label Explorer.