2024 Annual Conference

The National Big Data Health Science Conference is a signature annual event of the USC Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC). The theme of the 2024 conference was“Unlocking the Power of Big Data in Health: Empowering Scientific and Healthcare Communities with Data Analytics.” Highlights of the 5th national conference included keynote and panel speakers from diverse areas of the health sciences, government, and academia as well as poster sessions, networking events, and breakout sessions in areas of artificial intelligence for sensing and diagnosis, electronic health records, genomics, geospatial and social media research. The Conference was held on February 2 – 3, 2024. More detailed information about speakers, panels, workshops, and other conference details is available at https://www.sc-bdhs-conference.org/.

2024 Conference Proceedings

This proceeding contains some of the oral and poster presentations from the 5th National Big Data Health Science Conference (Columbia, SC, Feb 2-4, 2023) that was organized by the University of South Carolina Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC). Proceedings of the 5th National Big Data Health Science Conference* were published on May 16, 2024, on BMC Proceedings, which is an online, open-access journal publishing proceedings of conferences across all scientific and clinical disciplines, including peer-reviewed full-length articles, collections of abstracts, and meeting reports.

Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by R13LM014347 from the National Library of Medicine. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Donna Arnett Ph.D.

Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of South Carolina

Andrew C. Bledsoe

Deputy Executive Director
Kentucky Health Information Exchange, Office of the Inspector General, Commonwealth of Kentucky 

Jim Box

Principal Data Scientist
Life Sciences, SAS

Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, M.D.

Senior Physician Scientist
RAND Corporation

John Hsu, M.D.

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School & Director, Program for Clinical Economics and Policy Analysis, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital

Raphael Isokpehi, Ph.D.

Program Director, Training, Workforce Initiatives and Community Engagement (TWICE), Office of Data Science Strategy, NIH

Gaetano T. Montelione, Ph.D.

Professor and Constellation Endowed Chair, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Ioannis Paschalidis, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering and Director, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering, Boston University

Lori Scott-Sheldon, Ph.D.

Chief of Data Science and Emerging Methodologies in HIV, National Institute of Mental Health

Xiaotong Shen, Ph.D.

John Black Johnston Distinguished Professor, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota