Pamela Peele, PhD is Chief Analytics Officer at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center.

The title of her presentation is "Thinking with Data".  Dr. Peele will discuss what you can do (and can’t) with claims data and other types of figures from the electronic health record to public data.   She will share some examples of the work she’s done, discovered and implemented while at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center.  She will also demonstrate how to make predictive models in the absence of data, while dealing with the changing insurance market stress on financial predictive models.

~~Dr. Peele is responsible for creating innovative analytics that drive financial and clinical performance including economic modeling, predictive modeling, statistical analysis, and machine learning.

She currently holds faculty appointments in Health Policy and Management and in Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is core faculty at the Center for Research on Health Care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and an elected fellow of the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations in Montreal, Canada. She has numerous published articles and book chapters. Dr. Peele was the first person chosen by IBM as an IBM Big Data Hero and was voted the 2014 IT News Men & Women of the Year as a top innovator in health care analytics.