BRIDGE Webinar with Gary An, MD, FACS

Agent-Based Models as Proxy Systems to deal with the Crisis of Reproducibility, Translational Research and Precise Control of Disease

Gary An, MD, FACS

Professor of Surgery
Co-Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Gary An, MD, is a general surgeon with an expertise in surgical critical care, trauma surgery and acute care surgery. In addition to being an active clinician, he is a senior fellow of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. Dr. An is a founding member of the Society of Complexity in Acute Illness (SCAI) and both past president and current board member of the Swarm Development Group, one of the original organizations promoting the use of agent-based modeling for scientific investigation.

Dr. An's research looks to harness the power of big data toward better surgical care. He has worked on the application of complex systems analysis to sepsis and inflammation since 1999, primarily using agent-based modeling. His research involves the development of mechanism-based computer simulations in conjunction with biomedical research labs, high-performance/parallel computing architectures for agent-based models, artificial intelligence systems for modular model construction, and community-wide meta-science environments, all with the goal of facilitating transformative scientific research.