Full Name
Dr. Jesus Caban
Job Title
Chief Data Scientist
Company
PEO DHMS
Speaker Bio
Dr. Jesus Caban is the chief data scientist for the Enterprise Intelligence and Data Solutions Program Management Office. In this role, he provides direct support to the EIDS program manager in the PMO’s development and delivery of robust information and data platforms that facilitate informed decision-making for the entire Military Health System.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Dr. Caban previously served as the chief of clinical and research informatics at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence/Defense Intrepid Network from 2011 to 2022. In that role, his team led the planning, implementing, and sustaining of the DOD Traumatic Brain Injury Patient Registry, TBI Portal, TBI dashboards, the Clinical Assessment Management Portal, and multiple artificial intelligence/machine learning models for mental health. Dr. Caban is a trained computer scientist with more than 16 years of experience in inter-disciplinary clinical and informatics research. He has authored more than 60 scientific papers in clinical informatics, TBI, AI/ML, image processing, and data visualization. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Uniform Services University at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches within the Data Science graduate program.
EDUCATION
Dr. Caban holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky. He was a 2022 Inductee to the University of Kentucky College of Engineering Hall of Distinction. He won the Defense Health Agency Innovation Award and AMSUS Health IT Award in 2018, and the TBI Portal won a Federal Health IT Innovation Award in 2019.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Dr. Caban previously served as the chief of clinical and research informatics at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence/Defense Intrepid Network from 2011 to 2022. In that role, his team led the planning, implementing, and sustaining of the DOD Traumatic Brain Injury Patient Registry, TBI Portal, TBI dashboards, the Clinical Assessment Management Portal, and multiple artificial intelligence/machine learning models for mental health. Dr. Caban is a trained computer scientist with more than 16 years of experience in inter-disciplinary clinical and informatics research. He has authored more than 60 scientific papers in clinical informatics, TBI, AI/ML, image processing, and data visualization. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Uniform Services University at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches within the Data Science graduate program.
EDUCATION
Dr. Caban holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky. He was a 2022 Inductee to the University of Kentucky College of Engineering Hall of Distinction. He won the Defense Health Agency Innovation Award and AMSUS Health IT Award in 2018, and the TBI Portal won a Federal Health IT Innovation Award in 2019.
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