2024 Scientific Computing and Digital Transformation Symposium November 4 - 6, 2024

Conference | Mixed

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• Date: November 4 - 6, 2024
• Day1: Mon, Nov 04 9:00 a.m. - 04:30 p.m. ET
• Day2: Tue, Nov 05 10:00 a.m. - 04:30 p.m. ET
• Day3: Wed, Nov 06 9:00 a.m. - 04:30 p.m. ET

• Sponsored By: Office of the Commissioner

Recordings & Thank You

2024 SCDT Symposium Speaker Biographies

FDA Scientific Computing and Digital Transformation Symposium

Solutions for Public Health:
Uniting Scientific Computing, Enterprise IT, and Innovative Technologies

Co-Hosts
FDA Scientific Computing Board (SCB)
FDA Office of Digital Transformation (ODT)

Event Dates & Locations
November 4, 2024 (9:00AM – 4:30PM ET) Great Room A, B, C
November 5, 2024 (10:00AM – 4:30PM ET) Great Room A, B, C
November 6, 2024 (9:00AM – 4:30PM ET) Building 75 Atrium
In Person, Virtual via Zoom

View Recording Day 1: 11/4

View Recording Day 2: 11/5

View Recording Day 3: 11/6

View Posters

 

 

Event Summary

This year, the FDA Scientific Computing Board (SCB) and the Office of Digital Transformation (ODT) have partnered to co-host this event, which advances our strategic goal to ‘Create a Shared OneFDA Ecosystem’ and facilitates stakeholder engagement and knowledge sharing. This year's Symposium promises to provide an even richer experience than before. The theme for 2024, "Solutions for Public Health: Uniting Scientific Computing, Enterprise IT, and Innovative Technologies," reflects the power of cross-agency collaboration in tackling scientific and technological challenges facing public health. We will have topics related to scientific computing, how we are furthering FDA’s IT Strategic Plan, as well as exciting joint sessions on the following topics:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Public Health: Explore how AI can revolutionize the FDA’s public health mission.
• Data Sharing & Access: Discuss new approaches to break down data silos and accelerate scientific progress.

The FDA Scientific Computing Days has been the flagship annual event advocating for scientific computing to advance the agency’s public health and scientific and regulatory mission. More recently, the Digital Transformation Symposium has explored the FDA’s IT investments and challenges, opportunities for partnership, and strategic priorities. Together, SCB and ODT brings you the best in scientific computing and enterprise innovation.

Recordings & Thank You

Thank you for attending this year’s event! We invite you to see a few select photos from the event. We have also posted the recordings below. Presentations may be seen via the recording. Note that the recordings will be removed on January 31, 2025.

• View Recording for Day 1, November 4, 2024
• View Recording for Day 2, November 5, 2024
• View Recording for Day 3, November 6, 2024

Day 1: November 4, 2024
Time (ET)		Location
9:00AM – 9:10AM	Day 1 Opening Remarks Vid Desai, FDA Chief Information Officer	Room A/B
9:10AM – 9:40AM	Tom Osborne, MD Chief Medical Officer Microsoft Federal Breakthroughs at the Intersection of Medical Knowledge and Advanced Technology Q&A	Room A/B
9:40AM – 10:10AM	Tara Ruttley, PhD Chief Scientist Orbital Reef Space Research Innovations For Advancing Public Health Q&A	Room A/B
10:10AM – 10:40AM	Break	Lobby
10:00AM - 4:30PM	Poster Viewing & Voting Posters will be open for viewing and voting through 3PM ET, Tuesday, November 5 Featuring scientific computing projects from CBER, CDER, CDRH, HFP, CTP, CVM, NCTR, OII.	Room C
10:40AM - 12:00PM	Regulatory Computing & Statistical Applications Hesha Duggirala, PhD, MPH (FDA/CVM), Session Chair This session covers key advancements in regulatory science. Presentations include topics on monitoring and assessment for enhancing clinical trial data reliability, the development of OII quality metrics, and the role of in silico technologies in accelerating innovation for FDA-regulated products. Additionally, this session explores a new active surveillance method which aims to improve the safety of regulated devices. Centralized Statistical Monitoring & Data Quality Assessment Tina Wang, MPH, FDA/CDER Challenges in Developing Quality Metrics for FDA Field Operations Steve Condrey, MPS, FDA/ORA In Silico Technologies: A Strategic Imperative for Accelerating Breakthroughs and Market Leadership for FDA Regulated Product Tina Morrison, PhD (FDA/OC) and Mark Palmer, PhD, Ansys The New Medical Device Active Surveillance System: Enhancing the Safety of Health Technologies Danica Marinac-Dabic, MD, PhD, MMSc FISPE, FDA/CDRH and Michael Gilbert (Booz Allen Hamilton)	Room A/B
12:00PM - 1:00PM	Lunch Lobby Poster Session - Presentations FDA scientific computing poster presentations in Great Room C Posters will be open for viewing and voting through 3PM ET, Tuesday, November 5 Featuring scientific computing projects from CBER, CDER, CDRH, HFP, CTP, CVM, NCTR, OII   Room C
1:00PM - 2:20PM	AI in Practice - Part I Macro Trends in AI Ram Iyer, FDA Chief Data Officer Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence for Regulatory Applications in the Cloud Sujatha Dantuluri, Sr. SA, AWS and Aidan Ricci, SA, AWS CDRH’s Regulatory Science Research Program and the Evaluation and Adoption of AI/ML Technologies Frank Samuelson, PhD, FDA/CDRH Collaborative Development of AI-based Models for Prediction of Breast Cancer Progression Qian Cao, PhD, FDA/CDRH, Yutong Li, PhD, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, and Rahul Paul (FDA/CBER)	Room A/B
2:20PM – 2:45PM	Break	Lobby
2:45PM – 4:05PM	AI in Practice - Part II AI with HIVE: HPC Resources to Accelerate the Use of Emerging Technologies Luis Santana-Quintero, PhD, FDA/CBER CDER Generative AI for Enterprise Search Ethan Chen, FDA/CDER, and Venu Boppana, FDA/CDER NCTR Generative AI Research Efforts Joshua Xu, FDA/NCTR Is AI the Silver Bullet or a Mirage? A Thought-Provoking Discussion Shanthi Vigneshwaran, FDA/ODT, Tyler Peryea, FDA/ODT, and Iwona Weidlich, FDA/CDER	Room A/B
4:05PM - 4:10PM	Day 1 Closing Remarks Mark Walderhaug, PhD, SCB Advisor, FDA/CBER	Room A/B

Day 2: November 5, 2024
Time (ET)		Location
10:00AM – 10:10AM	Day 2 Opening Remarks Jamie Pettengill, PhD, SCB Co-chair, FDA/HFP	Room A/B
10:00AM – 3:00PM	Poster Viewing & Voting Posters will be open for viewing and voting through 3PM ET, Tuesday, November 5 Featuring scientific computing projects from CBER, CDER, CDRH, HFP, CTP, CVM, NCTR, OII.	Room C
10:10AM – 10:40AM	Lara Jehi, MD, MHCDS Professor of Neurology Chief Research Information Officer Chair, Center of Computational Life Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Quantum Computing: A Path to Innovate in Health and Life Sciences Q&A	Room A/B
10:40AM - 11:55AM	Data Sharing & Access in Practice – Part I Opening Remarks Ram Iyer, FDA Chief Data Officer Supporting Innovation through Sci-Assist Bioinformatics Method Development on precisionFDA Alexis Norris, PhD, FDA/CVM, and Ashley Cook, PhD, FDA/CVM How the Human Food Program is Accelerating Mission Outcomes through Enhanced Data Sharing and Access Across Food Product Data, Science, and Collaboration Solutions Thomas Farrell, FDA/HFP, and Jimmy Sanders, MS, Trigent Solutions/Digitrix, LLC, FDA/HFP Bridging FDA Centers: Leveraging Enterprise IT for Efficient Data Sharing in Intercenter Consults Danita Dixon, MS, FDA/OC	Room A/B
11:55AM - 12:30PM	Lunch	Lobby
12:30PM – 1:00PM	Duncan MacCannell, PhD, MBT Director, Office of Advanced Molecular Detection Division of Infectious Disease Readiness and Innovation National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Accelerating Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics in Public Health Q&A	Room A/B
1:00PM – 2:20PM	Data Sharing & Access in Practice – Part II FDA’s Data Dashboard Robert E. Bughman, FDA/OII Readiness of Data for AI: From Data Governance to MDM Tom Beach, FDA/ODT The Human Foods Data Platform (HFDP): Advancing Data Sharing and Analytics to Support Mission Execution Lauren Hines, FDA/HFP A Serving of DAaaS for the Foods Program Greg Pishko, FDA/ODT, and Michael Dubbin, FDA/ODT	Room A/B
2:20PM – 2:45PM	Break	Lobby
2:45PM – 4:15PM	Advanced Computational Science: High Performance Computing and Quantum Computing Kenny H. Cha, PhD, FDA/CDRH, Session Chair Companies are pushing the boundaries with new advancements in computational science for their medical products. In order to ensure the public’s safety, the FDA leverages advanced computational science to assess such products. This session discusses some of the science performed, using the advanced computational capabilities, as well as quantum computing and how it may be leveraged for regulatory science research to further our capabilities. Scaling Scientific Computations on HPC Clusters Mike Mikailov, PhD, MBA, FDA/CDRH Scalable Metagenomics Workflow on HPC Clusters Saul Sarria, PhD, FDA/CVM Quantum Computing (Presentation + Panel Discussion) Fatih Selekler, Westat, Nicole Barberis, IonQ, Kenny Cha, PhD, FDA/CDRH Mark Walderhaug, PhD, FDA/CBER, Tomas Drgon, PhD, FDA/ODT, and Charles Strittmatter, FDA/HFP	Room A/B
4:15PM - 4:30PM	Day 2 Closing Remarks & Posters Awards Jamie Pettengill, PhD, FDA/HFP, SCB Co-chair	Room A/B

Day 3: November 6, 2024
Time (ET)		Location
9:00AM – 9:30PM	Transforming Tomorrow: The FDA’s IT Strategy Jessica Berrellez, FDA/ODT Executive Officer, Kathleen Abt, FDA/OC/ODT, Casi Alexander (FDA/ODT), Nihar Thadani, Gartner, Karen Stokes-Lockhart (Gartner)	75 Atrium
9:30AM – 9:50AM	Tech Revolution & Healthcare Evolution Mohammed ‘Sohail’ Chaudhry, FDA Chief Technology Officer	75 Atrium
9:50AM - 10:10AM	OneNexus Enterprise Platform Kara Ledden, FDA/CDER, and Allison Ford, FDA/CDER	75 Atrium
10:10AM - 10:20AM	Break	75 Atrium
10:20AM - 11:00AM	Federal CIO Fireside Chat Vid Desai, FDA Chief Information Officer; Jennifer Wendel, Acting Chief Information Officer (CIO), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); Ajay Phogat, Senior Advisor to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); Jessica Berrellez, FDA/OC/ODT Executive Officer	75 Atrium
11:00AM - 11:20AM	What Can Data Science Do For You? Lessons Learned from a WorkshopLeadership of Data Science Teams Tomas Drgon, FDA/ODT, Kevin Snyder, FDA/CDER, Hesha Jani Duggirala, FDA/CVM	75 Atrium
11:20AM – 11:40AM	Next Gen Electronic Submission Jessica Bernhardt, FDA/ODT	75 Atrium
11:40AM – 12:35PM	Lunch	75 Atrium
12:35PM – 1:05PM	Fireside Chat: Modernizing the FDA - Leveraging IT Strategy for a Digital Future Dr. Robert Califf, FDA Commissioner; Dr. Namandjé N. Bumpus, FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner; Dr. Steven Kozlowski, FDA's Acting Chief Scientist; Vid Desai, FDA Chief Information Officer; Lilliam Rosario, Ph.D. (FDA/CDER) will moderate	75 Atrium
1:05PM – 1:25PM	Zero Trust Cybersecurity: Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Craig Taylor, FDA Chief Information Security Officer, Leah Buckley, FDA/OIS, Lewis Watson, FDA/OIS	75 Atrium
1:25PM – 1:45PM	What Success Looks Like? Saumyendu Ghosh, FDA/OII	75 Atrium
1:45PM – 2:05PM	OII Innovations for a Nimble & Mobile Investigator Workforce Eugene Reilly, FDA/OII	75 Atrium
2:05PM – 2:20PM	Break	75 Atrium
2:20PM – 2:50PM	FDA ADCIO Panel: Technology Transformation Across FDA Sophia Donaldson, CTP Associate Deputy Chief Information Officer; Saumyendu Ghosh, OII Associate Deputy Chief Information Officer; Margaret Zabriski, CVM Associate Deputy Chief Information Officer; Josh Lehman, FDA/ODT	75 Atrium
2:50PM – 3:10PM	Next Generation Compute & Next Generation Backup Steven Schecter, FDA/ODT	75 Atrium
3:10PM – 3:35PM	Fireside Chat: Advancing FDA's IT Strategic Budget, Governance, and Acquisitions Mahesh Choksi, FDA/ODT; John Johnson, FDA Director of Fiscal Services and Operations (FSO); Maria Shams-Ramsey, FDA/ODT; General Lee, FDA/ODT	75 Atrium
3:35PM – 3:55PM	Cultivating FDA's Digital Future: Technology Talent & Leadership Panel Jaimee Friend, FDA/OC/ODT; Beau Brooks, FDA/OC/ODT; Lana Kostecka, FDA/OC/ODT; Nakia Stewart, FDA/OC/ODT; Julie Donnell, ICF; Anne Redding, ICF; Dr. Sandra Tibbs, ICF	75 Atrium
3:55PM – 4:15PM	FDA Enabled by Machine Learning (ML)/Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Services Michael Phillips, FDA/ODT	75 Atrium
4:15PM – 4:20PM	Day 3 Closing	75 Atrium

 

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Event Materials

Title	File Type/Size
2024_symposium_program_-_bios	pdf (1.64 MB)