Presenter: Khyzer Aziz, MD
Overview:
Digital Innovations in Neonatal Research: How Emerging Technologies are Changing the Landscape
Objectives:
To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers
Dr. Khyzer Aziz’s research interests are utilizing complex information found in the electronic medical record and national registries/databases to provide clear, cohesive, and concise information for patients, families, and clinicians that can be used for clinical decision-making and neonatal precision medicine. With his mentorship team, he is pioneering processes for nuanced automated neonatal data collection locally and globally utilizing the OHDSI/OMOP common data model. He is also developing and validating neonatal specific severity of illness metrics for the neonatal population – the neonatal sequential organ failure assessment (nSOFA) score and the vasoactive-inotropic score (VIS) – over the last year, he has published this work in high impact, peer reviewed journals.
Dr. Aziz is the Associate Director of the Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences Informatics programs in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. In addition, Dr. Aziz is the Director and Faculty/Scientific lead of the NICU Precision Medicine Center of Excellence (PMCOE) initiative at Johns Hopkins. His short-term goal is to develop and publish unbiased studies concerning major health outcomes for NICU patients using internal institutional databases and national data registries utilizing longitudinal neonatal severity of illness metrics. His hope is that these studies will provide the framework towards more effective pre- and postnatal counseling, quality improvement initiatives, and help build predictive models for individual disease processes. In doing this work, his ultimate goal is to build predictive models that can aid in producing the best outcomes for patients in the most cost-effective manner and build a path towards neonatal precision medicine.
Financial Disclosures:
Khyzer Aziz, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hour)
Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hour)
MOC-2 credit (1.00 hour)
Target Audience:
Pediatric Doctors and Providers
Faculty, residents, health care providers; medical students and trainees.
Accreditation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.