Class
Schedule
Week 1
(1/8/08)
"Computer
science applications to improve health delivery in low-income countries"
Neal Lesh, Ph.D., M.P.H.,
Chief Technology Officer of D-tree
International, Boston, MA, and Director of Special Projects, Dimagi, Cambridge, MA. (details)
(podcast)
(slides)
Week 2
(1/15/08)
Faculty
Candidate Talk: "Synthesizing
Diverse Biomedical Data for Public Health Research and Practice"
Neil Abernethy, Ph.D.,
Statistician, Medical
Research
Council
Laboratories, The Gambia. (details)
(podcast)
(slides)
Week 3
(1/22/08)
"Challenges
in
Health
Information
Exchange:
Privacy
and Security Perspectives in
Empowering Patients"
Deborah Lafky, M.S.I.S., Ph.D., C.I.S.S.P.,
Program Analyst, Office of Interoperability and Standards, Office of
the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC),
Washington, D.C. (details)(podcast)(slides)
Week 4
(1/29/08)
"Consistent probabilistic outputs for
protein function prediction"
William Noble, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Genome Sciences and of Computer Science,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)
(podcast)
(slides)
Week 5
(2/5/08)
"National
Health Information System Strengthening in Resource Constrained
Countries - Lessons Learned"
David Lubinski, M.S.,
M.B.A., Chief Technology Officer, Health Metrics Network, World Health
Organization, Geneva Switzerland. (details)(podcast)(slides)
Wednesday February 6
in South Campus Center Room 316L 1:00-2:00 PM
Walker Ames Scholar Lecture:
"Informatics, Nursing and Health Policy"
Carole A. Gassert, Ph.D, R.N., F.A.C.M.I.,
F.A.A.N., Associate Dean, Information & Technology, College of
Nursing, Adjunct Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. (details)(podcast)(slides)
Thursday
February
7
in
Room
H-670
4:00-5:00 PM
Faculty Candidate Talk:
"Informatics for zoonotic
disease surveillance: combining animal and human data"
Matthew Scotch, Ph.D., M.P.H., Postdoctoral
Fellow, Yale
Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, . (details)(podcast)(slides)
Week 6
(2/12/08)
"Computerized Physician Order Entry: Does
it really reduce medication errors?"
James A. Taylor, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics,
University of Washington and Child Health Institute, Seattle, WA.(details)(podcast)(slides)
Week 7
(2/19/08)
No presentation this
week
Week
8
(2/26/08)
"Next
generation sequencing technologies and their application to bacterial
genomics"
Roger
Bumgarner, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Array Technology,
Department
of
Microbiology,
University
of
Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)(podcast)(slides).
Week 9
(3/4/08)
"Alert
Fatigue - Are You Tired Yet?”
Mark DelBeccaro, M.D., Professor
and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Washington, Pediatrician-in-Chief and Chief Medical
Information Officer, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical
Center, Seattle, WA. (details)(podcast)(slides)
Week 10
(3/11/08)
No presentation this
week due to last minute conflict
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