Bill Duncan

Bill Duncan is the Associate Director of the Clinical Data Network at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. He has a PhD in Philosophy (2014), with a focus in ontology, an MS in Computer Science (2004), and over 15 years of experience developing software and working with databases. His research involves the development of research project specific databases, the extraction and analysis electronic medical records, and the use of semantic technologies to integrate and query data from multiple sources. Bill is actively involved in the development of many biomedical ontologies, in particular in the Oral Health and Disease Ontology and Antibody Ontology. He is currently developing ontologies to model data used in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.