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Georgia Tourassi is the founding Director of the Health Data Sciences Institute and Group Leader of Biomedical Sciences, Engineering and Computing at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Concurrently, she holds appointments as Adjunct Professor of Radiology at Duke University and the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine and as a joint UT-ORNL Professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Her research interests include medical imaging, biomedical informatics, clinical decision support systems, digital epidemiology, and data-driven biomedical discovery. Her scholarly work has led to 11 US patents and innovation disclosures and more than 250 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings articles, and book chapters. Her research has been featured in numerous publications such as the MIT Science and Technology Review, Oncology Times and the Economist. Dr. Tourassi has served as Associate Editor of the scientific journals Radiology and Neurocomputing, and as a Guest Associate Editor of Medical Physics and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. She is elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Association of Medical Physicists (AAPM) and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). For her leadership in the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer initiative, she received the Department of Energy Secretary’s Appreciation Award in 2016. In 2017, she received the ORNL Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology. Dr. Tourassi holds a B.S. in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.