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MEBI 590, Winter 2008
Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series

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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 Last Updated:
3/30/08

Contact the instructor at: pth@u.washington.edu