He directs the Computational Medicine Center, a collaborative of healthcare, university and private industry members that was funded by Ohio's Third Frontier program. Dr. Pestian's lab (pestianlab.cchmc.org) is focused on analyzing clinical free-text using a variety of natural language processing methods. The lab is using this free text in a variety of way to advance personalized medicine like combining it with genomic, clinical and environmental data to select optimal drugs, identify various patient risk factors and do quality enhancement monitoring.>> Dr Pestian's latest call for papers profile details