Presenter

Georgia Tourassi is the Director of the Health Data Sciences Institute at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Prior to joining ORNL, she was Associate Professor of Radiology at Duke University Medical Center. Her research interests include medical imaging, biomedical informatics, clinical decision support systems and data-driven biomedical discovery. Her scholarly work has led to 9 US patents and innovation disclosures and over 230 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Tourassi is elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Association of Medical Physicists (AAPM) and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). For her leadership in the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer initiative, she received the DOE Secretary’s Appreciation Award in 2016. IShe holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.