Sharon Lojun
Sharon Lojun
Medical Information Systems Unit, BU
Postdoctoral Fellow
BS 1984 George H. Cook College of Environmental Sciences
MD 1988 Cornell University Medical College
SM 2010 (anticipated) MIT, Biomedical Informatics
MPH 2010 (anticipated) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
I am a gynecologic oncologist, board certified in OB/GYN and gyn onc. I am interested in the impact of westernization upon women, specifically risks of developing breast, ovary, and endometrial cancer, and all things related to steroid and peptide hormone exposure. My informatics interests are in data mining, risk-model creation, ontologies, and natural language processing. I am also interested in research advising for faculty and residents, students. I will be completing my SM degree in biomedical informatics at MIT, this year; the following year I will complete my MPH (concentration, research) from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
I hope to become facile in the tools which will help me glean information from electronic data sets, including data mining and NLP, and data representation. From this, I hope that I am able to contribute to the care of women by identifying risk factors and associations related to the risk of women's cancers which become more prevalent as our world becomes more globalized.
