The Silent Development of Vascular Calcification in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients
Speaker: Nguyen Thi Nhung, Lecturer, College of Health Sciences Abstract Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant contributor to morbidity and mortality from non-communicable diseases, but it often remains asymptomatic until the stage of the disease progresses. In 2017, the number of individuals with all-stage CKD reached almost 700 million in which diabetes and hypertension
Recommender Systems: Machine Learning and Beyond
Speaker: Le Duy Dung, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science Abstract Personalized recommendation, whose objective is to generate a limited list of items (e.g., products on Amazon, movies on Netflix, or pins on Pinterest, etc.) for each user, has gained extensive attention from both researchers and practitioners in the last decade. The necessity
Understanding the Role of Race and Racism in Medicine
Speaker: Toni Marie Biskup, Pediatrics Residency Program Director, College of Health Sciences Abstract The idea that humanity can be divided into “races” has existed for centuries and the definition continues to change with the political climate. There is no genetic basis for “race”, however socially and politically it is very real and has significant impacts