2018 Joint Summits on Translational Science

For the second year in a row, I attended the Joint Summits on Translational Science, rebranded as the AMIA Informatics Summit (Figure 1).  Despite the name change, the locale was the same (San Francisco, CA) with slightly different conference dates (March 12-15, 2018), and the scope of the science remained highly relevant:  data science, translational […]

2017 Joint Summits on Translational Science

Informatics in all its different forms has without a doubt risen in popularity over the last five to ten years.  Informatics is not exactly new and as a discipline or professional society has been around for several decades, evolving with the increase in the importance of computers.  The recent surge in its popularity and cross-disciplinary […]