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MEBI 590, Fall 2009
Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series

Class Schedule

Week 1 (10/6/09)
 
"Health Disparities in Cardiovascular Diseases in the United States"
   Ali Mokdad, Ph.D., Professor, Global Health, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details) (no podcast) (slides)

Week 2 (10/13/09)
 
"Anticipating BioRisks: Considerations for Building Effective Detection, Prevention and Response Systems
   
Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine and Information School; Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine; Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics, University of Wasington, Seattle, WA. (details) (podcast)
(slides pending)

Week 3 (10/20/09)
 
"National-Scale Clinical Information Exchange in the United Kingdom: Lessons for the United States"
  
Thomas Payne, M.D., FACP, FACMI, Medical Director, IT Services, UW Medicine; Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, Health Services, and Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details) (podcast) (slides)

Week 4 (10/27/09)
 
"Dynameomics"
  
Valerie Daggett, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioengineering; Director, Biomolecular Structure and Design Program; Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry; Adjunct Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details) (no podcast) (no slides)

Week 5 (11/03/09)
  "Towards a Structural Framework for Managing, Integrating and Visualizing Biomedical Information: An Update on Research in the UW Structural Informatics Group"
   Jim Brinkley,  M.D., Ph.D., Director, UW Structural Informatics Group; Professor, Department of Biological Structure; Joint Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics; Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle,
WA.  (details) (podcast) (slides)

Week 6 (11/10/09)
  TO BE RESCHEDULED FOR WINTER QTR 

  "Communicable Disease Informatics at Public Health  - Seattle and King County"
  
Tao Kwan-Gett, M.D., MPH, Medical Epidemiologist
, Public Health - Seattle and King County, WA.

Week 7 (11/17/09)
 
*No presentation this week due to the American Medical Informatics Annual Symposium (details)

Week 8 (11/24/09)
 
"Information Value in Computerized Patient Care Documentation Systems"
  
Kenric W. Hammond, M.D., Joint Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington; Director, Puget Sound VA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical Informatics, VA Medical Center,
Seattle, WA.  (details) (partial podcast) (slides)

Week 9 (12/01/09)
 
"Integrating Diverse Data Sources for Disease Surveillance"
 
Neil Abernethy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics; Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services; faculty in the Center for Public Health Informatics; University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  (details) (podcast) (slides pending)

Week 10 (12/08/09)
 
"Inter-institutional data sharing: the CICTR project"
 
Nick Anderson, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics; Associate Director,
Biomedical Informatics Core, Institute of Translational Health Sciences; University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  (details)  (podcast)  (slides)

Week 11 (12/14/09) Special Guest Lecturer
  CANCELLED. DUE TO BE RESCHEDULED FOR 2010.
    "The National Health IT Agenda"
  Charles P. Friedman, PhD, Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Office of the Secretary for Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.  He also serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). (details)



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 Last Updated:
12/15/09

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