[Vpcomorbidities-subgroup] White paper COMORBIDITIES SUBGROUP

[Jacob Barhak]

Greetings comorbidities subgroup,

This is a reminder that Gilberto sent in a document.

For those who prefer to access the subgroup document that Gilberto sent
directly, you can use this link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oFLhqQFVrhha2clg7hCoM9ICV4baXD2OUOPVOGwJHMY/edit?usp=sharing

Feel free to request permission to edit the document and add your
perspectives or work. Or feel free to send your responses to this email and
we will try to incorporate those.

Hopefully this reminder will improve the document and be able to move
forward according to the change provided by the work group leads.

              Jacob


On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 5:33 PM Gilberto Gonzalez-Parra <
gilberto.gonzalezparra at nmt.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> We received some guidance on how to proceed. However, we might have some
> changes depending on the situation.
>
> Charge to subgroups:
>
> Deliverable: White paper on the subgroup focus areas.
>
> Due date: February 26, 2021
>
>
>
> Steps to be taken:
>
>    1. Subgroup lead(s) *write one or two paragraphs on the topic of the
>    subgroup* and the main problems to be focused on. Due to working group
>    leads: *January 17*
>    2. Email to all subgroup members with this description and call for an
>    initial meeting (if not happened yet) on or before *January 26*. Bruce
>    can help with address lists and scheduling.
>    3. At the initial meeting, discussion of the main topics of a white
>    paper that surveys the subgroup topic and lists major problems and
>    potential solutions. Refine paragraph describing subgroup focus. Sketch out
>    an initial Google doc with these problems. Post it on working group website.
>    4. Subsequently, subgroup leads develop a document based on the
>    meeting with sections for main topics and find leads for each of the
>    sections. Completed by *January 29*.
>    5. Leads for main topics draw on other subgroup members to complete an
>    initial draft by *February 12*.
>    6. Entire subgroup edits, refines, expands document, including
>    references etc. Final document delivered to working group leads by *February
>    26*.
>
>
>
> Regarding step 1 Jacobe wrote a draft paper and I added that we might
> start with Covid due to the importance of this topic. However, it is open
> as it can be seen below.
>
>
> COMORBIDITIES SUBGROUP
>
> MSM WORKING GROUP ON MULTISCALE MODELING OF VIRAL PANDEMICS
>
> Any disease has multiple effects on the human body, partially since it can
> affect multiple organs or systems. The definition of complications of a
> disease is many times determined by medical experts that employ language or
> codes such as International Statistical Classification of Diseases and
> Related Health Problems (ICD). This is a human decision process that
> involves many factors a trained medical professional takes into account,
> including education, and experience. Computational models are different
> from human decision and therefore there is a need to address how those
> address comorbidities.
>
> This subgroup deals with comorbidities such as:
>
> - Diabetes
>
> - Age
>
> - Obesity
>
> - Immune suppression
>
> Issues to explore:
>
>    -
>
>    What comorbidities exist in viral infections and how can we model
>    those?
>    -
>
>    How to include human interpretation of modeling?
>    -
>
>    Multiscale computational models can model quantities rather than
>    states.  How to transform a quantity to a definition of a comorbidity?
>    -
>
>    How to model interaction between comorbidities?
>    -
>
>    What are examples of existing models known and how do those define
>    comorbidities?
>
>
> Note:
>
> Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic these previous points can be
> addressed specifically for COVID.
>
> If you have some suggestions you can use the simtk list.
>
> Best,
>
> ***************************************************************************
> Gilberto C. Gonzalez-Parra, Ph.D in Applied Mathematics.
> Faculty of the Mathematics Department
> New Mexico Tech, NM, USA.
>
> ****************************************************************************
>
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