BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:302@escience.washington.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T172000 DTSTAMP:20260123T175106Z URL:https://escience.washington.edu/events/uw-data-science-seminar-aparna- ramanathan/ SUMMARY:UW Data Science Seminar: Aparna Ramanathan DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a UW Data Science Seminar featuring UW Assoc iate Professor of Ob/Gyn Aparna Ramanathan on Thursday\, January 29th fro m 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. PT. The seminar will be held in IEB G109.\n\n \;\n "Detection of Early Warning Signals regarding Safety Concerns of Implantab le Medical Devices"\nAbstract: Shortcomings in the American process for sa fety monitoring of new medical devices has led to the injury of hundreds o f thousands of patients. Surveillance currently relies primarily on report s of adverse events submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by manufacturers\, making concerns raised by patients virtually invisible. T here is mounting evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine le arning (ML) techniques could be leveraged to monitor social media and deve lop a surveillance system that would alert key stakeholders to device-rela ted failures or adverse events as they are unfolding. Our preliminary stud y of social media related to one known problematic device has shown potent ial for discovering of early warning signals of future device failure in s ocial media data. In our preliminary study\, we were able to detect\, thro ugh online discussions on Reddit\, the lead-up to failure of Essure® – a gynecologic device for permanent birth control that was associated with numerous harmful side effects after introduction and was withdrawn from th e market by the manufacturer in 2018.\n\n \;\n\nSpeaker Bio: Aparna Ra manathan is an Associate Professor of Ob/Gyn at UW with a research focus i n medical device development - her work on device development led her to s tudy of regulatory processes and device safety.  She was fortunate last y ear to be paired with Dr. June Yang and Dr. Spencer Wood of the eScience I nstitute through their Accelerator program for further investigation of th is problem through data science.\n\n \;\n\n\nThe 2025-2026 seminars wi ll be held in person\, and are free and open to the public.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://escience.washington.edu/wp-content/uploa ds/2026/01/Ramanathan_Aparna-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR