In recent years, big data resources have attracted significant interest across health and healthcare, including monitoring personal health and wellness to creating risk prediction algorithms that can facilitate minimization of hospital re-admissions. Yet when it comes to big data science in mental health care and research, the successes have remained relatively limited to date. We continue to use primitive ways to identify and measure mental illness, lack organizational capacity for building and maintaining large and longitudinal data repositories, and have yet to define a robust model for turning individual data into collective knowledge that can benefit patient care. Our research is an attempt to address these challenges by developing and applying novel big data analytics methods in understanding effective ways to diagnose, treat and manage patients suffering from major depression.
 

Bio:
Dr. Pathak is the Frances & John L. Loeb Professor of Medical Informatics, Professor of Healthcare Policy & Research, and the Chief of Division of Health Informatics at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University in New York City. Prior to joining Weill Cornell in 2015, he was the Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota (2007-2015) where he led two large NIH/HHS initiatives—the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) and Strategic Health IT Research Project (SHARP)—on high-throughput phenotyping from electronic health records (EHRs). His current research focuses on secondary uses of EHR data for clinical and healthcare delivery research, clinical decision support systems for personalized therapeutics, and integration of genomic data within EHRs. Dr. Pathak received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University (2007) and a B.Engg. in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India (2002). He is the recipient of Iowa State University Graduate Research Excellence Award and Mayo Clinic Early Career Development Award in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Dr. Pathak’s research has been funded by multiple major national grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the American Heart Association (AHA) and several private foundations. He has published over 180 papers including many book chapters and invited reviews.