Harold I. Feldman, MD, MSCE, kicked off the festivities.

Jason Moore, PhD, FACMI, discussed the crucial role of informatics in the "learning health system."

J. Richard Landis, PhD, highlighted cutting-edge biostatistics work in areas such as digital phenotyping.

Stephen Kimmel, MD, MSCE, described how epidemiologists collaborate to probe issues such as medication adherence.

Abdhi Sarkar was one of many compelling presenters in the poster session.

Michael V. McConnell, MD, MSEE, Brian L. Strom Visiting Professorship lecturer (left), spoke with Executive Vice Dean Jonathan A. Epstein, MD.

Qi Long, PhD (center), our energetic emcee, circulated in the crowd.

Interaction was key throughout the day.

Joanna Harton, a biostatistics PhD student, delivered a flash talk on propensity score estimation with missing covariate data.

Yu Hu, a biostatistics PhD student, shared a flash talk on identifying differential splicing events by single-cell RNA sequencing data.

M. Elle Saine, an MD/PhD student, delivered a flash talk on concordance of hospitalized endpoints within clinical practice.

Simon Vandekar, a biostatistics PhD student, shared a flashtalk on powerful permutation tests for neuroimaging.

Xiaohui Yao, a postdoctoral researcher, delivered an informatics flashtalk on a network-based genome-wide study.

Trang T. Le, postdoctoral researcher, delivered an informatics flashtalk on deciphering interdependent immunologic biomarkers.

Ruowang Li, a postdoctoral researcher, won top informatics honors for his flash talk on a computational method to improve missing data.

Jing Huang, a postdoctoral researcher, took the prize in biostatistics for her talk on bias reduction in EHR-related research.

Megan Noe, an MSCE student, won the top prize in epidemiology for her flash talk  on overestimation of mortality in SCORTEN.

Postdoctoral researcher Todd Miano garnered the top prize overall for his epidemiology flash talk  on Tacrolimus pharmacogenetics.