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Stephen T. WONG
John S. Dunn Presidential Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Engineering
Fellow of FIEEE, FAIMBE, FAMIA, FAAIA
Director, T.T. & W.F Chao Center for BRAIN, Houston Methodist Academic Institute
Associate Director, Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center
Professor of Radiology, Neurosciences, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cornell University
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Cognitive Automation in eTriage, Detection, and Diagnosis of Acute Stroke in Emergency Rooms
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BIO：
Dr. Stephen T. WONG holds the John S. Dunn, Sr. Distinguished Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering; he is also a Professor of Radiology, Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, Neurology, and Neurosciences, the Associate Director of Translational Research at Methodist Cancer Center, and Chief of Medical Physics and Chief Research Information Officer at Houston Methodist Hospital. In addition, he serves as the Founding Director of the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for BRAIN (Bioinformatics Research and Imaging in the Neurosciences) and Founding Director of the Center for Modeling Cancer Development at Houston Methodist Research Institute. He also holds a dozen of other academic posts across institutions in Texas Medical Center as well as overseas universities and medical schools.
An internationally acclaimed bioengineer and imaging scientist, Dr. Stephen WONG has led teams that developed production automation for first very large scale integration (VLSI) 1MB computer memory chip and the largest online brokerage trading system, and contributed to the first hospital-wide digital radiology image management system in US academic medical centers.
Dr. WONG has more than twenty years of research and management experience in industry and academia, including Hewlett-Packard, AT&T Bell Laboratories, the Japanese Fifth Generation Computer Systems Project, Philips Medical Systems and Royal Philips Electronics, Charles Schwab, University of California - San Francisco/Berkeley, Harvard University and Houston Methodist Hospital. He received his senior executive education from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He holds many patents and has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and four books. He also serves on and chairs NIH study panels, conference program committees, and the editorial boards of twelve scientific journals. As an international authority, he is sought as a speaker on medical imaging, systems biology, healthcare IT, drug development, biophotonics, clinical neuroscience and other related topics.
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