Lars Juhl Jensen, research professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research in Copenhagen, Denmark, will present “Medical Data and Text Mining: Linking Diseases, Drugs, and Adverse Reactions” at the Miller School of Medicine Lois Pope Life Center Auditorium at noon on Wednesday, July 6. Clinical data describing the phenotypes and treatment of patients is an underused data source that has much greater research potential than is currently realized. Mining of electronic health records (EHRs) has the potential for revealing unknown disease correlations and for improving post-approval monitoring of drugs for adverse drug reactions.

In his presentation, hosted by the Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology and the Center for Computational Science, Jensen will introduce the centralized Danish health registries and show how they are used to identify temporal disease correlations and discover common diagnosis trajectories of patients. He will also describe how to perform text mining of the clinical narrative from electronic health records and use this for identification of new adverse reactions of drugs.