Grand Opening
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Speakers Bios
Michael Becich, Ph.D.
Michael Becich, MD, PhD (Co-Director) is a Professor of Pathology and of
Information Sciences and Telecommunications. He serves as the Director of
the Center for Pathology Informatics and Vice-Chairman of Pathology
Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside
Hospital/Hillman Cancer Center. Since 2001 he has also served as Director of
the Benedum Oncology Informatics Program within the University of Pittsburgh
Cancer Institute.
His current research focuses on developing applications and databases to automate clinical annotation of tissues utilized in high throughput genomics and proteomic analyses. This program focuses on creating data mining and data warehousing tools for data derived from DNA based microarrays, tissue microarrays, tissue bank information systems, clinical information systems, clinical trials data and imaging repositories that currently exist in the Pathology department and Cancer Centers program. His laboratories are well-funded including grants from the National Cancer Institute, National Center for Research Resources, National Institute for Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Agency for Healthcare Quality, Department of Defense (Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Command) as well as corporate sponsored research programs.
A good example of the innovative research Dr. Becich is involved in is the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) initiative. In this NCI-funded initiative Dr. Becich and his team are developing grid computing enabled data sharing tools for clinical trials and tissue banking for the Cancer Centers program. Dr. Becich will devote a 10% level of effort as a Co-Director of the BMI Training Program.
