April 25th All Day
The Georgetown University Postdoctoral Association (GUPDA) and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Training & Development are hosting the annual GU Postdoctoral Research Symposium on April 25th. This event highlights the excellent research and scholarship that our postdoctoral community is producing. Postdocs will present their research through oral and poster presentations.
Keynote Information
Additionally, our keynote speaker this year is Dr. Nawar Shara. Dr. Shara is the founding director of AI CoLab, chief research data science, director of the Center of Biostatistics, Informatics, Data Science at the MedStar Health Research Institute, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown university with over 20 years of experience. As an NIH-funded investigator, she leads multidisciplinary teams to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence in promoting ethical, transparent, and trustworthy solutions in healthcare. Dr. Shara has several leadership positions spanning the CTSA/NCATS consortium to the national AIM-AHEAD program, charged with
raising awareness about the potential role AI plays in health equity. She leads the development of curricula focused on the role AI plays in healthcare to train and educate the next generation of frontline healthcare workers. Dr. Shara earned her Master and PhD in applied statistics from American University after completing her undergraduate degree in Economics at Damascus University.
