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Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Recorded sessions

  • Prof William Hersh (Participant)

    William Hersh, MD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. Dr. Hersh is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics both in education and research. Dr. Hersh serves as Director of OHSU's Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program, which is one of the oldest and largest in the world, and offers Master's and PhD degrees as well as a Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Informatics. He is PI of OHSU's NIH National Library of Medicine T15 Training Grant, now in its 28th year. Dr. Hersh also spearheaded OHSU's efforts in distance learning in biomedical informatics. He has taught in person and online widely around the world. Dr. Hersh serves as MPI of the Computational Omics and Biomedical Informatics Program (COBIP) in collaboration with the University of Cape Town and funded by the NIH Data Science Initiative for Africa.