[CCoE Notice] Seminar announcement - Advancing Disease Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapy Through Biomedical Analytics

[Tekin, Eylem]

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR

Date: March 8, 2013
Time: 10am-11am
Place: D 102

Advancing Disease Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapy Through Biomedical Analytics

            Mary F. McGuire, PhD
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
mary.f.mcguire at uth.tmc.edu

Abstract

One of the biggest challenges in diagnosing and treating illness is that the information your doctor uses is based on averages. But we are all unique, right down to the molecular and cellular levels - and that "deep" information can be used to personalize treatment. This presentation will demonstrate how Biomedical Analytics uses diagnostic test data to compare and analyze patients' biological pathways associated with shock/trauma and kidney cancer, and how this approach can improve patient care.

Biography

Mary McGuire has almost 5 decades of experience in systems analysis and design, starting in the 1960s when she began her career by coding portions of novel mainframe-computer timesharing systems for both CDC and IBM in assembler language while a high school student taking courses at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science at New York University in New York City.
After completing her Masters degree in Operations Research (minoring in electrical engineering) at the Columbia University School of Engineering, Dr. McGuire moved to Canada in the 1970's where she advised students, academics and researchers at the University of Calgary on debugging scientific application programs and taught computer science, management science and communications theory to both undergraduate and graduate students.
On the startup of the university's arms-length corporation named the Advanced Computing Technology Center (ACTC) in 1983, Dr. McGuire was invited to join as the first Project Administrator, managing teams of programmers developing operating systems for Control Data (ETA) and Honeywell (Multics) computers and communications networks for NASA (Develcon). In 1989, Dr. McGuire left ACTC to start her own company, BEXX Systems Inc., to provide custom software and systems support for Apple computers, where she designed and implemented a variety of systems including a sales optimization system for point-of-sale multimedia ads at HEB supermarkets in Texas, as well as participating as director on two Calgary economic development boards.
The challenges facing the healthcare industry drew Dr. McGuire to the Texas Medical Center at Houston, where she completed a PhD in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas in 2011 and developed novel techniques for systems analysis of disease progression. Dr. McGuire is now a CPRIT Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow sponsored by the UT School of Public Health. Her mentors are Dr. Bob Brown, Vice-Chair of the Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and Dr. Gino Lim, Chair of the Industrial Engineering Dept. at the University of Houston. She is also a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Today, Dr. McGuire will show how analytical methods can be adapted for use in biomedical research and patient care.

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