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Meet the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS)

Associate Director for Data Science, NIH
Director, ODSS
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Dr. Susan Gregurick was appointed Associate Director for Data Science and the Director of ODSS in September 2019. Under Dr. Gregurick’s leadership and guided by the NIH’s Strategic Plan for Data Science, ODSS leads and coordinates catalytic data science activities in scientific, technical, and operational programs in collaboration with the NIH institutes, centers, and offices.
Read Dr. Gregurick’s full bio.

Deputy Director, ODSS
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Dr. Belinda Seto was appointed deputy director of the ODSS in January 2020. A former deputy director of the National Eye Institute and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, she brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the position. After earning her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Purdue University, Dr. Seto completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Stadtman Lab of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She researched hepatitis B and vaccine development at the FDA. She oversaw the analysis and reporting of NIH grants data and trends through the Office of Extramural Research. Her experience in database management, analysis and extramural grants policies led her to serve on the NIH Scientific Data Council and the Scientific Data Policy Council.

Lead, Integrated Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies
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Lead, FAIR Data & Resources
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Ishwar Chandramouliswaran is a Program Director and technical lead for the strategy, planning, coordination and oversight of establishing a FAIR data ecosystem at ODSS.
Prior to joining ODSS, Ishwar served as the Deputy Director and operationalized NIAID’s newly established office of data science and emerging technologies and successfully developed trans-NIAID program initiatives that focused on data reuse, research software development, and establishing a NIAID Data Ecosystem. Prior to joining NIAID, Ishwar was an Associate Director at the National Cancer Institute’s, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology and contributed to innovative programs and technology supporting open and collaborative team science to accelerate research in the cancer informatics community including the cancer genomics cloud and NCI hub projects.
His career has spanned scientific research in bioinformatics to product development in academic and commercial settings, and his work driven by both research community needs and emerging technologies. His non-governmental experience includes serving as a subject matter expert at IBM Corporation towards realizing translational science through their clinical genomics engagements with noteworthy projects at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF); and as a bioinformatics scientist at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and Celera Genomics. Ishwar is one of the authors of the landmark Science publications on the sequence of the human genome and holds patents in gene discovery. Ishwar holds an MS in Biochemistry from University of Maryland at College Park and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Lead, Training, Workforce Initiatives and Community Engagement (TWICE)
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Beginning in 2012, Dr. Lin served as Program Director and later Deputy and Acting Branch Chief at the Diversity Training Branch (DTB) of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD). She has developed and led several significant efforts in promoting the cancer research workforce diversity both extramurally and intramurally, including the NCI Youth Enjoy Science (YES) Research Education Program (R25), the Early Investigator Advancement Program and the intramural training program iCURE. She also led the management of the diversity and re-entry and re-integration supplement programs at NCI. Prior to joining NCI, Dr. Lin served as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She conducted interdisciplinary research focused on understanding the molecular interactions of membrane proteins and their signaling mechanisms, particularly those that modulate the cytoskeleton. Dr. Lin received her Ph.D. in physics/biophysics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her B.S. in physics, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Lead, Policy and COVID
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Dr. Vivian Ota Wang currently applies her expertise in racial identity, community engagement, and research participant protections to data science as the policy and COVID activities lead for ODSS. Previously, she was the deputy director of the National Cancer Institute’s Office of Data Sharing in the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology and a program director for data access and sharing and the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Vivian also developed public engagement and ELSI guidance for nanoscience and nanotechnology at the National Science and Technology Council under the Bush and Obama administrations. Prior to joining the NIH, Vivian was a genetic counselor at the University of Colorado and held tenure-track faculty positions at three universities. She received a B.A. in biology from Colorado College, a M.S. in genetic counseling from the University of Colorado, and a MPhil and Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Columbia University.

Program Director
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Shu (Sue) Hui Chen received her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Cellular and Developmental Physiology in 2009 from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She came to the NIH, specifically the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in 2010 where her postdoctoral work focused on studying molecular and comparative genomics to investigate underlying host-pathogen interactions and factors that contribute to pathogen crossing of the blood-brain barrier.
Sue comes to us from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) a part of the US National Institutes of Health, where she served as the Data Access Committee Chair and Genomics Program Administrator for NHLBI. Her position focused on the Policies and Operations that feed into Data Management and Sharing for the IC including strategizing and applying solutions to enhance responsible data sharing for the IC. She specializes in genomics research programs involving infectious disease, immunology, resilience and how these factors affect heart, lung, blood, and sleep in human health and disease, while ensuring protection of human subjects. Her past experience in Patenting, Licensing, and collaborative agreements included serving on a special projects committee to re-evaluate the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) technology transfer Human Subjects Research Checklist in order to comply with the NIH Human Subjects research policy and the Common Rule (45 CFR part 46) for sharing and receiving of human samples and associated data. She is NIH IRB certified and serves on trans-NIH committees related to data sharing with regards to human subjects protections. She was also an important contributor to the NHLBI programs such as TOPMed and BioData Catalyst.

Program Director
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Dr. Bryan Kim has a background in health services and healthcare delivery research with a focus in generating new knowledge and translational science through data science tools and technologies to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Prior to joining ODSS, Dr. Kim served as a Program Director in the Healthcare Delivery Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), working on research grants that focused on healthcare delivery and outcomes research related to cancer patients and survivors living with other chronic conditions. He also served as NCI’s scientific research contact on two trans-NIH funding opportunities focused on multimorbidity research. Prior to NCI, Dr. Kim served as a Program Official within the Division of Health IT at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Kim received his BS in Psychology, MS in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology from the University of Florida, and PhD in Kinesiology from Temple University. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Health Behavior Research under Dr. Karen Glanz at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Program Director
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Dr. Hsinyi “Steve” Tsang is a clinical informatics program director for ODSS. In this role, he promotes the use of clinical standards, such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), in biomedical research by developing and conducting training and education activities. Steve has spent most of the last two decades at the NIH in various capacities. Prior to joining ODSS, he was a program officer at NIAID where he administered and oversaw data science projects in immune-mediated and infectious diseases. For the broader research community, Steve has been promoting data science training as well as the use of emerging technologies including cloud computing, software containerization, and workflow management for reproducible biomedical data science research. He received a B.S. in Biochemistry from University of Maryland College Park and a Ph.D. in biology/structural bioinformatics from the Johns Hopkins University, as part of the NIH Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP).

Communication Specialist
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Advisor
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Program Specialist, AIM-AHEAD
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Data and Technology Advancement (DATA) Scholar
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Science Writer
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Program Specialist
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Management Analyst
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Zoe is a management analyst for the ODSS Policy and COVID Activities Unit. Before joining ODSS, Zoe was a Systems Certification Coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Human Services (MN DHS). In this role, she ensured the state’s compliance with federal standards and regulations pertaining to Medicare and Medicaid management electronic systems.
Prior to joining MN DHS, Zoe was an Operations Coordinator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). She also served as a Program Analyst at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). She received a B.S. in Biology and Genome Sciences and Policy Certificate from Duke University.

Cybersecurity Specialist, Data Science Services
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RADx Data Hub Program Director
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Program Director, TWICE
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Budget Analyst
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Program Officer, Cloud Computing Programs
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AIM-AHEAD Program Lead
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Data Scientist
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This page last reviewed on November 18, 2022