SPHN Webinar Series
The SPHN Data Coordination Centre (DCC) organizes on-line seminars on SPHN relevant topics to build competences, share know-how and best-practices within the SPHN network. All seminars are live-streamed, and are subsequently available on the SPHN YouTube channel.
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Upcoming Webinars
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Past Webinars
SPHN Data Coordination Center Webinars
Dr. Sabine Österle
Personalized Health Informatics Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Patrick Hirschi
Head of Clinical Data Platform for Research, Universitätsspital Zürich
18.10.2023
Delivered by: Andreas von Ballmoos and Dominique Furrer, Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern
01.11.2023
International research infrastructure initiatives for (gen)omics
Dr. Mallory Freeberg
Coordinator, European Genome-phenome Archive, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton UK, and
Dr. Teresa D'Altri
Project Manager and Coordinator, European Genome-phenome Archive, CRG, Barcelona
Anonymising Heath Data under the GDPR - Challenges and Experiences
Prof. Dr. Fabian Prasser
Medical Informatics Lab, Berlin Institute of Health, Charité - Univeritätsmedizin Berlin
De-identification Standards: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What Fails Miserably
Bradley Malin, PhD
Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science, Vice Chair for Research Affairs, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
FAIRification: Commitment, Implementation, Empowerment
Marco Roos and Núria Queralt-Rosinach
Biosemantics, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
FHIR, RDF, ShEx, and JSON-LD: Synergies and opportunities for SPHN
Prof. Harold Solbrig
Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
GA4GH and Phenopackets: Synergies and opportunities for SPHN
Prof. Melissa Haendel,
Director of the Center for Data to Health, Oregon Health & Science University
Dr. Robert Jakob, Unit Head, and Nenad Kostanjsek, Technical Officer
Classifications & Terminologies Unit, Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact, World Health Organization
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Elena Cardillo and Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti
Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council in Rende, Italy
Johan van Soest, PhD
Brightlands Institute for Smart Society, Maastricht University
OMOP/OHDSI and the power of using open science for generating medical evidence
Kees van Bochove
Founder, The Hyve, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Prof. Roger Schibli
Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, ETHZ-PSI-USZ
Citizen Centered Consent: A comprehensive approach for national consent management (C3-STUDY)
Christian Lovis, MD, MPH
FACMI Professor of Clinical Informatics, University of Geneva, Head of Medical Information Sciences Division, Geneva University Hospitals
CREATE PRIMA – clinical research from multi-modality big data sources
Prof. Dr. med. Jörg D. Leuppi
Head of the University Clinic of Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Basel-Land
De-identification of clinical narrative data in French, German and Italian (DeID)
Christian Lovis, MD, MPH
FACMI Professor of Clinical Informatics, University of Geneva, Head of Medical Information Sciences Division, Geneva University Hospitals
Development of a governance and quality management system for ex-change of patient related data for research purposes
Dr. Joerg Willers
Head Clinical Study Competence Center, Department Clinical Research at University Hospital Basel/ University Basel
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E-General Consent: Development and Implementation of a Nationwide Harmonized Interactive Electronic General Consent
Dr. Ramon Saccilotto
Team-leader Application Development / Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel / University Hospital Basel
SwitchTube (SWITCH edu-ID required)
Harmonising the collection of health-related data and biospecimens in paediatric hospitals throughout Switzerland
Prof. Claudia Kühni
Dr. med., Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Berne
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Imagine: Radiomics for comprehensive patient and disease phenotyping in personalized health
Prof. Matthias Guckenberger, Chairman of Department of Radiation-Oncology, University Hospital Zurich
Dr. Stephanie Tanadini-Lang, Group leader Clinical Medical Physics, University of Zurich
Dr. Michael Bach, University Hospital Basel
Prof. Andrea Bink, Senior Physician, Neuroradiology Clinic, University Hospital Zurich
Prof. Roland Wiest, Group Leader Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, Univeristy of Bern, University Hospital Inselspital Bern
Prof. Mauricio Reyes, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, University Hospital Inselspital Bern
Prof. Adrien Depeursinge, Institute of Information Systems, HES-SO
LOINC for Swiss Laboratories (L4CHLAB)
Christian Lovis, MD, MPH
FACMI Professor of Clinical Informatics, University of Geneva, Head of Medical Information Sciences Division, Geneva University Hospitals
Linked data in SPHN - A framework to semantically express and enrich health-related data
Dr. Sabine Österle, Dr. Vasundra Touré and Kristin Gnodtke
Data Interoperability Team, Personalized Health Informatics Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
MedCo: Enabling Secure & Privacy-Preserving Exploration of Distributed Clinical and *Omics Cohorts
Prof Jean-Pierre Hubaux
School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
NLP-powered mapping of clinical reports onto SNOMED-CT concepts for tumour classification (NLPforTC)
Rita Achermann
Msc Statistics ETH, Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel
Pascal Düblin
Computer Scientist, Clinical Trial Unit, University Hospital Basel
Ivan Nesic
Computer Scientist, Medical Science Competence Centre, University Hospital Basel
SwitchTube (SWITCH edu-ID required)
Marc Emmenegger
Group Prof. Dr. Adriano Aguzzi
Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich
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PRECISE: Identification of biomarkers and therapeutic targets in inflammatory disease immunotherapy by high-dimensional single cell analysis and cluster proteomics
Prof. Manfred Claassen
Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETHZ and SIB
SwitchTube (SWITCH edu-ID required)
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Adrian Egli
University Hospital Basel, University of Basel
QA4IQI – Quality assessment for interoperable quantitative CTImaging
Dr Bram Stieltjes, Vice Chair of Research, Radiology, Head of Research and Analytics, ICT, University Hospital Basel
Swiss Frailty Network and Repository - SFNR
Prof. Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, MD, DrPH
Clinic Director, Dept. of Geriatrics, University Hospital Zurich
SwitchTube (SWITCH edu-ID required)
Swiss Molecular Pathology Breakthrough Platform (SOCIBP)
Prof Mark Rubin
Director, Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern and Bern Center for Precision Medicine Inselspital, Bern University Hospital
Prof. Olivier Michielin, MD-PhD
Head of Precision Oncology Center, Department of Oncology, Lausanne University/University Hospital, Switzerland
Swiss BioRef: Personalized reference values for precision medicine
Prof. Dr. med. Alexander B. Leichtle
Inselspital – Bern University Hospital
SwissGenVar – A platform for clinical grade interpretation of genetic variants to foster personalized health care in Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Anita Rauch
Director of Medical Genetics, University Hospital Zurich
Dr Valérie Barbié
Director Clinical Bioinformatics, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Professor Christian M. Matter, University Hospital Zurich, (SPHN)
Professor Joachim M. Buhmann, ETH Zurich (PHRT)
Dr. Antje Thien, University Hospital Zurich
SwissPKcdw: Optimising paediatric dosage regimens based on a clinical data warehouse
Dr. med. Paolo Paioni
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children's Hospital Zurich