James Michaelson
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Biography
James Michaelson is the Director of the Laboratory of Quantitative Medicine, Member of the Departments of Pathology and Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor in Harvard University. His research concerns: The assembly of very large databases on patients; the development of improved mathematical methods for predicting cancer outcome; the analysis of patient outcome and cost; the analysis of cancer screening; the mathematics of growth; the mathematics of metastasis; the use of modern computer speech and telephony to design systems that improve patient compliance and the development of advanced method for imaging cancer specimens.