Aron Henriksson spent two weeks in April at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), continuing his ongoing collaboration with Dr. Mike Conway, who is currently at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. A small project was initiated that aims to develop techniques for detecting signals of adverse drug events (ADEs) in Twitter streams, in particular ADEs that are perceived to have been caused by tobacco cessation products. This project will continue over the coming months.
Sumithra Velupillai, who is currently doing a postdoc in San Diego, and Aron also visited Salt Lake City, where they gave a joint talk at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah, headed by Professor Wendy Chapman. The talk described their respective research efforts and that of the Clinical Text Mining group as a whole.
Both visits were very inspiring, and on our way from San Diego to Salt Lake City, we took the opportunity to take in the spectacular Grand Canyon!
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- Del Mar, just north of San Diego and the UCSD campus
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- The spectacular Grand Canyon and the Colorado River
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- Aron and Sumithra standing atop the southern rim of the Grand Canyon
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- Visiting the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the University of Utah
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- Aron giving a talk to a group of researchers at the University of Utah
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- Sumithra giving a talk to a group of researchers at the University of Utah
