Speaker:

Jacqueline Kruser, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) and Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Title:

High-Stakes Medical Decision Making: Investigating Human Behavior in a Complex Social System

Abstract:

The majority of older adults with life-limiting illnesses report end-of-life treatment goals that prioritize quality of life and comfort over invasive, high-burden treatments that prolong life. Yet, the incidence of intensive care unit admission and the use of prolonged life support in older adults near death continues to rise. A vast amount of observational research suggests that the current approach to making medical decisions for patients near the end of life in the United States fails to meet the needs and goals of patients, their families, and medical professionals at the bedside. The traditional paradigm of investigating and improving high-stakes medical decision-making has represented patients and physicians as independent, autonomous, and rational decision makers. Our work investigating high-stakes medical decisions has uncovered several latent, key influences on treatment decisions related to the complex social and technical system of the intensive care unit. We theorize that building a better model of high-stakes medical decision making that attends to this complex system will lead to effective strategies that will ultimately improve end-of-life care for older adults in the United States

Speaker Bio:

Jacky Kruser, MD MS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Kruser is a health services researcher funded by the NIH to investigate how the complex social and technical system of the intensive care unit impacts treatment decisions about prolonged life support and end-of-life care. Her work also focuses on developing, testing, and implementing novel interventions to support physicians, patients, and their family members during high-stakes medical decisions. She is a practicing pulmonologist and critical care physician in the adult Medical Intensive Care Unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame, followed by medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She was a resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin then pursued a clinical fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and a master’s degree in Health Services and Outcomes Research at Northwestern University

About the Speaker Series:

Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems and data science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between.

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Speaker:

Momin Malik - Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

Title:

Revisiting "All Models are Wrong": Addressing Limitations in Big Data, Machine Learning, and Computational Social Science

Abstract:

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Speaker Bio:

Momin M. Malik is the Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He holds an undergraduate degree in history of science from Harvard, a master’s from the Oxford Internet Institute, and a master's in Machine Learning and a PhD in Societal Computing from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, where his dissertation measured how much social media platform effects, demographic biases, and reliance on mobile phone sensor data can threaten generalizability of findings in computational social science. His current work bridges machine learning and science studies to understand the sources of both success and failures in machine learning.

About the Speaker Series:

Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems and data science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between.

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Speaker:

Michelle Birkett - Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Social Sciences; Director, CONNECT Complex Systems and Health Disparities Research Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Title:

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Abstract:

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Speaker Bio:

Michelle Birkett, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences and directs the CONNECT Complex Systems and Health Disparities Research Program within the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Dr. Birkett’s research uses network and quantitative methodologies to understand the social contextual influence of stigma on the health and wellbeing of marginalized populations, and in particular, sexual and gender minority youth. This work is influenced by a multilevel perspective of health that considers direct and indirect influences of multiple levels of the social and physical environment

About the Speaker Series:

Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems and data science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between.

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Speaker:

Monica Lee - Research Scientist and Engineering Manager, Facebook

Title:

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Abstract:

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Speaker Bio:

Monica Lee leads the Core Data Science: Political Organizations & Society team at Facebook. In close collaboration with the Civic Integrity team, her group develops innovative graph and machine learning models to detect and deter election-related platform abuse and protect users most vulnerable to its effects. Monica is skilled in machine learning, predictive modeling, map/reduce, Python, R, NLP, stats, graphs, visualization, experimentation, and adversarial research. She earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago.

About the Speaker Series:

Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems and data science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between.

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Speaker:

Jacqueline Ng Lane - Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), Harvard Business School

Title:

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Abstract:

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Speaker Bio:

Jacqueline Ng Lane is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH). Her research integrates insights from organizational theory, technology adoption, team effectiveness, and social networks to better understand how new technologies can enable companies to more effectively collaborate, share knowledge and improve organizational outcomes. A second avenue of her research involves understanding the processes through which individuals form new collaborations to produce innovative solutions through knowledge recombination. She holds a PhD in Management Sciences from Northwestern University.

About the Speaker Series:

Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems and data science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between.

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NICO is hosting a lightning talk seminar each term as a part of our Wednesdays@NICO seminar series. Northwestern graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are invited to participate. To sign up for future lightning talks, please visit: https://bit.ly/2lRqSXK

Lightning Talk Speakers:

Speakers for 3/4/20 will be announced in late February.

About the Speaker Series:

Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems and data science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between.

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Spring Break Begins

Spring Classes begin 8 a.m.

Northwestern Monday: In the fall of 2019, President Schapiro and Provost Holloway announced changes to commencement, spring break and the start of the spring quarter: spring quarters will now routinely start on Tuesday, rather than Monday, to afford two full weekends of break.

Though spring quarters will begin on a Tuesday, the Monday class schedule will be in effect, a practice referred to as “Northwestern Monday.” Classes that usually meet only on Tuesdays will not meet during the first week of the term. This calendar applies to all quarter classes except those offered in the evening programs in the Kellogg School of Management and the School of Professional Studies (SPS).

Liza Mundy, the author of Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II; will be talking about how she discoverted the story of some 10,000 women during the war working on different aspects of code breaking. Location TBD, more info coming soon.