2026 i2b2 Symposium Recording and Slides
June 9 - Morning Session
Welcome - Diane Keogh, Executive Director of the i2b2 Foundation and George Q. Daley, dean of Harvard Medical School and the Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine at HMS
SlidesKeynote: From Data to Impact: Transforming Public Health Through Informatics and Innovation
Monica Bharel, MD, MPH - Global Clinical Lead, Public Health and Public Sector Health – Google Health
Flush with Data: Untargeted wastewater metagenomics as a comprehensive and unbiased readout of community health.
Marc Johnson, PhD, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology University of Missouri-School of Medicine
Human Values Project: The AI Supporting Public Health.
Zak Kohane, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics Harvard Medical School
Panel: EHR Networks Supporting Public Health
Moderator: Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD.
Boston Medical Center Public Health.
Bill Adams, MD, Community Health Informatics Director, Boston HealthNet
Wisconsin Health Data Hub
Jomol Mathew, PhD, Associate Dean for Informatics and IT, University of Wisconsin at Madison
MassCPR Federated Data Network
Griffin Weber, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Florida Digital Twin
Gigi Lipori, MT, MBA, Sr. Director Research Informatics, University of Florida CTSI
Panel Discussion: EHR Networks Supporting Public Health
Moderator: Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD, University of Washington - Medicine, Chief Research Information Officer
June 9 - Afternoon Session
Highlights of i2b2 Release 1.8.3
Jeff Klann, PhD, ACIP, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
New i2b2 Website and Documentation
Nich Wattanasin, MS, FAMIA, Assistant Director, Research Development at Mass General Brigham
Update on Computed Phenotypes and Federated Learning
Griffin Weber, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Drug Discover Is Failing Patients Who Need It Most
Hossein Estiri, PhD, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School
Panel: Data Enclaves
Moderator: Elaina Sendro Gano, MS
ENACT - Enclaves Use Cases
Yanshan Wang, PhD, FAMIA, Vice Chair of Health Informatics atUniversity of Pittsburgh
AIM-Ahead Use Cases and Mass CPR
Griffin Weber, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine atHarvard Medical School
HIRO Enclaves for Pharma
Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD, UW Medicine Chief ResearchInformation Officer
Panel discussion: Data Enclaves
Moderator: Elaina Sendro Gano, MS, Associate Partner, Research Advancement at Chartis
Sponsor Update
HIRO Enclaves for Pharma
Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD, UW Medicine Chief ResearchInformation Officer
June 10 - Morning Session
User Interface Working Group - New visualizations and new colors.
Griffin Weber, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Introduction to i2b2
Shawn Murphy, Jeff Klann and Mike Mendis
Ontology Working Group: Same Data, New Lens - New Data, New Lens
Michele Morris, Senior Software Architect, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
i2b2 Workshop
Jeff Klann, PhD, ACHIP, Assistant Professor of Medicine atHarvard Medical School
June 10 - Afternoon Session
i2b2 Workshop - Admin Dashboard to i2b2
Nich Wattanasin, MS, FAMIA, Assistant Director, Research Development, Mass General Brigham
i2b2 Workshop - Custom Data Download Tool
Griffin Weber, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
i2b2 Workshop - Overview of the new i2b2 Docker
Kavi Wagholikar, MBBS, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mass General Research Institute and Harvard Medical School
i2b2 Workshop - Developing / Testing OntologyStore with Docker
Kevin Bui, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine