Date | 30 January 2019, Tuesday |
Time | 10:00am |
Venue | Conference Room, ISIS Malaysia |
Status | By invitation only |
By:
Edward W Boyer MD PhD
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School, USA
About the Speaker:
Dr. Boyer is Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He attended Vanderbilt University before receiving his doctorate in organic chemistry at Columbia University. He completed a NIH postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University before enrolling at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania before becoming a medical toxicology fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital. He joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2001. He left that institution in 2016 to develop the research infrastructure of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine.
Overview:
Dr. Boyer will discuss novel methods for surveillance of drugs of abuse. He will review natural language processing, microfluidic, and combinatorial mathematical methods to conduct surveillance of emerging drug use patterns as well as identify new substances of abuse. He will also discuss confirmatory laboratory testing methods to validate results from virtual surveillance methods.
0930 - 1000 | Arrival of guests and registration |
1000 - 1005 | Welcoming Remarks by Dr Hezri Adnan Senior Director (Research) Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia |
1005 - 1045 | Moderator Prof Dr Vicknasingam Balasingam Kasinather Professor and Director Centre for Drug Research, USM Presentation by Edward W Boyer MD PhD Associate Professor Harvard Medical School, USA |
1045 - 1130 | Question and answer session |
1130 | End |