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MEBI 590, Spring 2009
Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series

Class Schedule

Week 1 (3/31/09)
 
"Transforming Clinical Workspaces into Effective Information Workspaces for Patients"
  
Kent Unruh, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)(podcast)(slides pending)

Week 2 (4/7/09)
 
"Using the EHR to Improve Hospital Safety and Quality”
  To be rescheduled
 
Barry Aaronson, M.D. F.A.C.P., National Library of Medicine Post-doctoral Fellow, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Hospitalist, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA. (details)

Week 3 (4/14/09)
 
"Qualitative Studies of Primary Care Providers' Experience with Healthcare IT and practice redesign"
  
Jim Tufano, M.P.H., Ph.D., Research Scientist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)(podcast)(slides pending)

Week 4 (4/21/09)
 
"Content-Specific Auditing of a Large Scale Anatomy Onotology"
  
Ira J. Kalet, Ph.D., Professor, Radiation Oncology;
Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics; Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Structure; Director, Security and Networking, UW Medicine Information Technology Services; University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)(podcast)(slides)

BHI/NWIGM Lecture: 4/23/09, SCC Room 246, 3:30-4:30
  "Developing NLP Methodologies for Clinical Text"
  
Wendy Chapman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departmet of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. (details)(podcast)(slides)

Week 5 (4/28/09)
  "Managing Health Information in Your Life: Catalyzing Social Support"

  
Wanda Pratt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Information School; Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics; University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)(no podcast)(no slides)

Week 6 (5/5/09)
 
"Automated Classification of Chest X-Ray Reports Using Natural Language Processing"
  
Imre Solti, M.D., Ph.D.,
National Library of Medicine Post-doctoral Fellow, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)(no podcast)(no slides)

BHI/NWIGM Lecture: 5/7/09, SCC Room 246, 3:30-4:30
  "Finding the Hidden Knowledge in Text: Natural Language Processing for Biology and Medicine"
  
Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, Ph.D., Researcher, Kiha Software, Inc., Seattle, WA. (details)(podcast)(slides)

Week 7 (5/12/09)
 
"If You Build It, Will They Come? Improving Public Health Grey Literature Access for the Public Health Workforce"
 
Anne Turner, M.D., M.L.I.S., M.P.H., Member, UW Center for Public Health Informatics; Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services; Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)(podcast)(slides)

Week 8 (5/19/09)
  "Semantics for Biological Processes: Biosimulation"

 
John Gennari, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)(no podcast)

Week 9 (5/26/09)
 
"mHealth: The opportunity of mobile technologies to support HIV adherence in Peru"
 
Walter Curioso, M.D., M.P.H., Affiliate Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Research Professor, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru. (details)(podcast)(slides pending)

BHI/NWIGM Lecture: 5/26/09, SCC Room 248, 3:30-4:30
  "Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction for Biomedicine"
  
Guergana Savova, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Medical Informatics, Mayo School of Medicine; Associate Consultant,  Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. (details)(podcast)(slides)

Week 10 (6/2/09)
 
"Informatics Applications to Support Caregiving"
 
George Demiris, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Bioehavioural Nursing & Health Systems; Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.(details)



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 Last Updated:
5/27/09

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