Bio-IT World May 2, 2024
The practice of medicine has struggled to adopt data-driven tools, Dr. Caroline Chung told the audience at last month’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Even when tools are developed, getting them into clinical practice has been slow.
Chung has unique insight into this problem. She is the Vice President and Chief Data Office and Director of Data Science Development and Implementation of the Institute for Data Science in Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is a clinician-scientist and associate professor in Radiation Oncology and Diagnostic Imaging with a clinical practice focused on CNS malignancies and a computational imaging lab focused on quantitative imaging and modeling to detect and characterize tumors and toxicities of treatment to enable personalized...