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Elm Ballroom (2nd Floor)
Baltimore, Maryland, 21201
United States

Frank Pasquale

Frank Pasquale is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and machine learning, and he has been recognized as one of the most cited health law scholars in the United States. His 2015 book, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information, develops a social theory of reputation, search, and finance, and offers pragmatic reforms to improve the information economy. Pasquale has been recognized as one of the leaders of a global movement for “algorithmic accountability,” and he co-organized one of the leading conferences on the topic in 2016. In media and communication studies, he has developed a comprehensive legal analysis of barriers to (and opportunities for) regulation of internet platforms. In privacy law and surveillance, his work is among the leading research on regulation of algorithmic ranking, scoring, and sorting systems, including credit scoring and threat scoring.

Jay Perman

Jay A. Perman is president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) — Maryland’s only public health, law, and human services university. A pediatric gastroenterologist, Perman continues to practice medicine through his weekly President’s Clinic, where he teaches team-based health care to students of medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, social work, and law. Deeply committed to UMB’s neighbors, Perman established a community engagement office to support scholarship and advocacy on behalf of West Baltimore residents. He inaugurated a mentoring program to inspire local students to pursue careers in the health sciences, and he opened a community center to provide direct services to residents and to partner with them in neighborhood-strengthening projects. Perman first came to UMB in 1999 as chair of the School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics. He left Baltimore in 2004 for the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, where he was dean and vice president for clinical affairs. Additionally, he has served on faculty and in leadership positions at the University of California, San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson is a teller of stories, developer of messages, and architect of social solutions who’s as comfortable in front of the camera as he is behind the scenes developing strategy and messages for his clients. The award-winning journalist and communications specialist is managing principal of the Baltimore-based strategy firm JIJ Communications, where he provides strategic insight and messaging consulting to clients in the private, public, and entertainment sectors. Over the last two decades, Johnson has developed expertise in communications, political engagement, and strategic consulting to create a unique career committed to developing solutions and systemic change. He has interviewed President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for BET News; wrote the 2009 book, Everything I’m Not Made Me Everything I Am; and provides regular content for the nationally syndicated Rickey Smiley Morning Show. He also is the creator, host, and executive producer of Mancave, a late-night talk show targeting urban men that aired on BET in 2018.

Jenny Owens

Jenny Owens is the faculty executive director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) Graduate Research Innovation District, or the Grid. Owens is a passionate social entrepreneur with more than a decade of experience in higher education, including eight years at UMB in a graduate health sciences and human services environment. In addition to her experience in higher education, Owens is a social entrepreneur in her own right. She founded Hosts for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that connects families and friends of patients traveling to receive medical care with volunteer hosts offering accommodations in their homes. Owens was a runner-up for the Warnock Social Innovator of the Year award in 2018, part of the 2017-2018 Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab cohort, and one of Baltimore Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” honorees for 2018.

Julie Gilliam

Julie Gilliam started out as a social worker, became interested in technology, and now works for the University Maryland School of Social Work as a lead instructional technologist. Gilliam utilizes social work and technical skills to support faculty, staff, and students with instructional and technological services. Gilliam has been with the University System of Maryland for more than 16 years and worked for Gannett Co./USA Today for 10 years. Gilliam’s professional career has focused on solving problems for end users in numerous capacities.

Luana Colloca

Luana Colloca is an associate professor in both the Department of Pain and Translation Symptom Science at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She has conducted groundbreaking studies that have advanced scientific understanding of the brain bases for pain modulation in humans, and her approaches span from mechanisms of pain reduction to translational science. Colloca’s discoveries include the role of human pharmacological conditioning in tapering medication, how observation of clinical outcomes in others shapes firsthand pain experience, and the enhancement of expectancy-induced analgesia via vasopressin activity.

Nadine Finigan-Carr

Nadine M. Finigan-Carr is a prevention research scientist focused on the application of behavioral and social science perspectives to research on contemporary health problems, especially those that disproportionately affect people of color. She is assistant director of the Ruth H. Young Center for Families and Children at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, where she leads the Prevention of Adolescent Risks Initiative (PARI). She also is the principal investigator of projects at the state and federal levels designed to intervene with system-involved youth — those in foster care or the juvenile justice system. Finigan-Carr edited the 2017 book Linking Health and Education for African American Students’ Success and was the guest editor for The Journal of Negro Education’s 2015 special issue on “Out-of-School Time and African American Students: Understanding the Health, Environmental, and Social Determinants of Academic Success.”

Russell McClain

Russell McLain, associate professor and associate dean at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, is a nationally recognized expert on the effects of implicit bias and stereotype threat in education. McClain graduated with honors from Carey Law in 1995 and began teaching there in 2006. He directs the academic support program and is the associate dean for diversity and inclusion. He also is a member of the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Diversity Advisory Council and is president of the Association of Academic Support Educators. McClain’s scholarship explores whether implicit bias and stereotype threat converge to suppress the academic performance of minority groups, especially in higher education. He has made dozens of presentations and conducted numerous workshops for educational institutions, firms, judges, and professional groups.

Samuel Tisherman

Samuel A. Tisherman is a professor of surgery in the Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is the director of the Center for Critical Care and Trauma Education of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and the director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Surgical Intermediate Care Unit of the University of Maryland Medical Center. He completed his undergraduate degree in biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and medical school, a general surgery residency, and a surgical critical care fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Tisherman’s research has focused on the management of severe hemorrhagic shock and cardiac arrest, with a special interest in therapeutic hypothermia. Along with the late Peter Safar, MD, and Patrick Kochanek, MD, FCCM, he developed Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation (EPR), a novel approach to the management of exsanguinating trauma patients utilizing hypothermia to “buy time” for resuscitative surgery. Tisherman is currently conducting a clinical trial of EPR. Throughout his career, he has been heavily involved in education for students, residents, and critical care fellows.

Sarah Murthi

Sarah Murthi is a trauma surgeon at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and an associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She also is co-director of the Maryland Blended Reality Center (MBRC). The MBRC is a collaboration between computer scientists at the University of Maryland, College Park and clinicians at the University of Maryland, Baltimore to develop augmented and virtual reality for medical applications.