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Michael J Pencina

Michael J Pencina

Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Division of Biostatistics
Duke Box 2927, Durham, NC 27710
200 Trent Drive, M144 Davison Bldg, Durham, NC 27705
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Selected Presentations & Appearances

“Beyond the Black Box: Using Machine Learning (ML) to Understand Causality” - 2019 Scientific Sessions · November 2019 International Meeting or Conference American Heart Association, Philadelphia, PA
“Informatics-Enabled Learning Health Systems: Strategies for Success from 4 Academic Medical Centers” - 2019 Annual Symposium · November 2019 International Meeting or Conference American Medical Informatics Association, Washington, DC
"AI Health and Data Session" Chair - 2019 Annual Meeting Woo Center for Big Data and Precision Health · October 2019 International Meeting or Conference Duke University, Durham, NC
"Getting the Most Out of Your Data" - Community of Scholars Conference · October 2019 Lecture Duke University Office of Scientist Development, Durham, NC
“Are We Losing Our Humanity? Health Care Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” - Duke Health Leadership Summit 2019 · March 2019 National Scientific Meeting Duke University, Durham, NC
“Beyond the Black Box: Using Machine Learning (ML) to Understand Causality” - 2019 Scientific Sessions · November 2019 International Meeting or Conference American Heart Association, Philadelphia, PA
“Informatics-Enabled Learning Health Systems: Strategies for Success from 4 Academic Medical Centers” - 2019 Annual Symposium · November 2019 International Meeting or Conference American Medical Informatics Association, Washington, DC
"AI Health and Data Session" Chair - 2019 Annual Meeting Woo Center for Big Data and Precision Health · October 2019 International Meeting or Conference Duke University, Durham, NC
"Getting the Most Out of Your Data" - Community of Scholars Conference · October 2019 Lecture Duke University Office of Scientist Development, Durham, NC
“Are We Losing Our Humanity? Health Care Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” - Duke Health Leadership Summit 2019 · March 2019 National Scientific Meeting Duke University, Durham, NC
“Using Electronic Health Records Data for Risk Prediction: Practical Considerations” and “Machine Learning vs. Biostatistics: What is the Difference?” - 2018 Scientific Sessions · November 2018 International Meeting or Conference American Heart Association, Chicago, IL
“Fusion of Quantitative Methods to Support Learning” - Precision Medicine World Conference 2018 · September 2018 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke University, Durham, NC
Keynote Lecture: "Moving from Big Data to Big Insights: Data Science as the Cornerstone of a Learning Health System” - Program on Statistical, Mathematical and Computational Methods for Precision Medicine · August 2018 National Scientific Meeting Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
“Moving from Big Data to Big Insights” - Biostatistics Seminar · August 2018 Visiting Professorship Lecture Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Keynote Lecture: “Integrating the Role of Real-World Evidence (RWE) in Clinical Trials” - Corporate Forum Policy Dialogue · August 2018 National Scientific Meeting American Heart Association, Boston, MA
“An Equation-Free Presentation of New Methods for Prediction of Treatment Benefit and Model Evaluation” - Evidence and the Individual Patient: Understanding Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Patient-Centered Care · August 2018 National Scientific Meeting Predictive Analytics & Comparative Effectiveness (PACE) Center at the Tufts Medical Center + Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Washington, DC
“Evidence and the Individual Patient: Understanding Heterogeneous Treatment Effects (HTE) for Patient- Centered Care” · May 2018 National Scientific Meeting The National Academy of Medicine & Tufts Predictive Analytics Comparative Effectiveness Center, Washington, DC
"Data Science as a Cornerstone of a Learning Health System" · May 2018 National Scientific Meeting The Data Science Conference, Chicago, IL
"Machine Learning in Healthcare" Moderator - 2018 Health Datapalooza · April 2018 National Scientific Meeting Academy Health, Washington, DC
“Does Machine Learning Have a Place In a Learning Health System?” - NIH Collaboratory Grand Rounds · December 2017 National Scientific Meeting Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC
“Moving from Big Data to Big Insights” - 2017 Scientific Sessions · November 2017 International Meeting or Conference American Heart Association, Anaheim, CA
“How Can Prediction Models Help Tailor Individual and Population Care?” - 77th Scientific Sessions · June 2017 International Meeting or Conference American Diabetes Association, San Diego, CA
Keynote, Richard D. Remington Methodology Lecture: "The Art and Science of Developing and Evaluating Risk Prediction Models” - 2016 Scientific Sessions · March 2016 International Meeting or Conference American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Phoenix, AZ
“Neuroscience Trials of the Future – Statistical Considerations” - Institute of Medicine Workshop · March 2016 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
“Individual Trials versus Pooling Across Trials: A Preferred Approach for ‘Truth’ ” - 2015 Scientific Sessions · November 2015 International Meeting or Conference American Heart Association, Orlando, FL
“New U.S. Lipid Guidelines: Main Advances and Open Questions” - Distinguished Professor Program Series · June 2015 Visiting Professorship Lecture The Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
“Challenges of Surrogate Outcomes" - 2014 Scientific Sessions · November 2014 International Meeting or Conference American Heart Association, Chicago, IL
“Is There a Universe Beyond Sensitivity and Specificity in Evaluation of Diagnostic and Prognostic Performance?” - Joint Statistical Meeting Session · August 2014 International Meeting or Conference American Statistical Association, Boston, MA
“Interpreting Incremental Value of Biomarkers” · November 2013 Visiting Professorship Lecture Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
“Discrimination and Reclassification” - 30th Beckman Conference, Statistics and Study Design Session · November 2013 National Scientific Meeting AACC/ASN, Atlanta, GA
“How to Improve Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk” - Rene Robaire Memorial Lecture in Cardiovascular Research · May 2013 Visiting Professorship Lecture McGill University, Montreal, Canada
“Assessment of Improvement in Model Performance and Value of New Markers” - Workshop on Risk Prediction · November 2012 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
“Interpreting Incremental Value of Risk Prediction Models” · November 2012 Visiting Professorship Lecture University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
“How to Improve Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment” - 2012 Annual Symposium · August 2012 International Meeting or Conference European Society of Cardiology, Munich, Germany
Keynote Lecture: "Integrating Lifecourse Data into Risk Prediction Algorithms” - 2012 Netherlands Epidemiologic Conference · June 2012 International Meeting or Conference WEON, Dutch Society for Epidemiologic Research, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“How to Interpret Improvement in Risk Prediction Models” · June 2012 International Meeting or Conference Society for Epidemiologic Research, Minneapolis, MN
“Improving Signal Detection in CNS Trials” - Investing and Partnering Conference · May 2012 National Scientific Meeting Neurotech, Boston, MA
"Risk Reclassification Workshop" - Quality Control and Outcomes Research Conference · March 2012 International Meeting or Conference American Heart Association, Atlanta, GA
"Discrimination and Reclassification" - 2012 Scientific Sessions · March 2012 International Meeting or Conference American College of Cardiology, Chicago, IL
“How to Build and Interpret Risk Prediction Models” - Imaging Seminar Series · February 2012 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
“Lifetime Risk of Dyslipidemia” - 1st Conference · September 2011 International Meeting or Conference Polish Lipid Association, Warsaw, Poland
“Pioneering the Concept of Cardiovascular Risk to Modern Risk Function” - 10 Days of Hypertension & Diabetes · May 2011 International Meeting or Conference Gdansk, Poland
“Novel Methods for Quantifying Improvement in Risk Prediction” - Biostatistics Seminar Series · January 2011 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke University, Durham, NC
“Statistical Techniques to Assess Novel Biomarkers: Beyond the ROC Curve” - 2010 Scientific Sessions · November 2010 International Meeting or Conference American Heart Association, Chicago, IL
“Issues in Developing and Improving Risk Prediction Models” - Seminar Series · September 2010 Visiting Professorship Lecture Hannover Medizinische HochSchule (Hannover Medical School), Hannover, Germany
“Development of Framingham Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Algorithms” - Workshop on Computational Cardiovascular and Cardiopulmonary Dynamics · March 2009 National Scientific Meeting National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute + Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
“Issues in Development & Validation of Risk Prediction Models” · February 2009 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA
“Quantifying Improvement in Risk Prediction Models” - Biostatistics Department Seminar Series · February 2009 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
“Assessing Additional Value of New Biomarkers” - Genetic Risk Prediction Workshop · November 2008 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
“Measuring the Accuracy of Prediction Models” - Quantitative Health Sciences International Symposium · September 2008 International Meeting or Conference Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
“Keynote Lecture, Bridging the Gaps: New Trends in Women’s Health” - Enhancing Partnerships to Improve Women’s Health Conference · March 2006 Keynote/Named Lecture Princeton, NJ

Service to the Profession

Co-Founder & Board Member - Coalition for AI Health · 2024 - 2030 Committee Service CHAI,

Dr. Michael Pencina co-founded and co-leads the national Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), a multi-stakeholder effort whose mission is to increase trustworthiness of AI by developing guidelines to drive high-quality health care through the adoption of credible, fair, and transparent health AI systems.

Deputy Editor for Statistics · 2015 - 2025 Editorial Activities JAMA-Cardiology,
Statistical Consultant · 2015 - 2025 Consulting Journal of the American Medical Association,
Associate Editor · 2012 - 2023 Editorial Activities Statistics in Medicine,
Assistant Editor · 2007 - 2011 Editorial Activities Statistics in Medicine,

Academic & Administrative Activities

Reviewer for Medical and Statistical Journals

  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Archives of Internal Medicine
  • Biometrics
  • Biostatistics
  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American Dietetic Association
  • New England Journal of Medicine