Speaker
Dr. Lixia Yao, Polygon Health Analytics, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration and Policy at Temple University, Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA)
Title
Statistics Seminar Series
Subtitle
Decoding the Mysteries of Health Economics and Outcomes Research and Real-World Data: An Industry Insider's View
Physical Location
Allen 411
Abstract: TBA
About the Speaker
Dr. Lixia Yao is the founder and CEO of Polygon Health Analytics LLC, which specializes in developing high-quality real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) in disease areas with pressing unmet medical needs.
With a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University, Dr. Yao previously worked as the director of Real-world Data Analytics & Innovation at Merck and an associate professor in Biomedical Informatics at Mayo Clinic. She has cultivated a deep understanding of RWD and authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles on prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Genome Research, and Drug Discovery Today with a H-index of 20.
Dr. Yao received the Career Development Award in Biomedical Informatics from the National Library of Medicine (2016-2019). She is also a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA) and served as the Chair of the AMIA KDDM working group (2020-2022). Currently, she holds the additional roles of Member Engagement Co-Chair for the Oncology Special Interest Group at the Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), Director of Business Insights & Analytics at SAPA-GP, and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Health Services Administration and Policy at Temple University.