Medical, Biomedical & Biodefense: Support to the Warfighter Symposium

Dr. Jesus Caban

Dr. Jesus Caban is the Chief of Clinical and Research Informatics at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) in Bethesda, MD. He manages a team of analysts, scientists, and engineers that provide enterprise applications, business intelligence, data, and advanced analytics to the Defense Intrepid Network for TBI and Brain Health across 13 military treatment facilities (MTFs) and many partnering TBI clinics across the Military Health System (MHS).

Since 2011, his team has made significant contributions to the MHS by developing, implementing, rolling out, and transferring multiple innovations that have been adopted across the enterprise. One of those contributions is the DoD TBI Patient Registry that organizes all the longitudinal clinical data for about ~500K service members that have sustained a TBI since 1999. Daily, hundreds of providers use the TBI Portal as the interface to access that information at the point of care and to monitor outcomes. Other contributions include the Clinical Assessments Management Portal (CAMP) that is used across 120+ clinics to collect patient self-reports, enterprise dashboard capabilities currently used by thousands of users, and several state-of-the-art AI/ML capabilities.

Trained as a computer scientist and with over 16 years of experience in inter-disciplinary clinical and informatics research, Dr. Caban has authored over 50 scientific papers in TBI, clinical informatics, machine learning, predictive models, and data visualization.

Dr. Caban is committed to educating and training the next generation in informatics, AI/ML, and data science. He’s an adjunct faculty at the Uniformed Services University (USUHS) where he mentors PhD students interested in clinical informatics and he’s also an adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University – Applied Physics Lab where he teaches some of the core classes of the Data Science graduate program.

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