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MEBI 590, Winter 2010
Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series

Class Schedule

Week 1 (01/05/10)
 
"Composite Annotations - Say what you mean with biomedical ontologies"
   Daniel L. Cook, M.D., Ph.D., Research Professor, Departments of Physiology/Biophysics and Biological Structure, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details) (podcast) (slides)


Week 2 (01/12/10)
   Lecture Cancelled



Week 3 (01/19/10)
  "Integrating & Ranking Uncertain Scientific Data"

  Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Research Associate & Postdoctoral Scholar, Database Research Group, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
(details) (no podcast) (slides)


Week 4 (01/26/10)
  "Natural Language Processing for Clinical Informatics and Translational Research Informatics"
  Imre Solti, MD, PhD, K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Fellow, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  (details) (podcast) (slides)


Week 5 (02/02/10)
   "Improving access to public health messages for low English proficiency individuals"
  Anne M. 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) (no podcast) (slides pending)


Week 6 (02/09/10)
 
"The Informatics of Pandemic Flu Surveillance in Seattle & King County"
  
Tao Kwan-Gett, M.D., MPH, Medical Epidemiologist
, Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization Section, Public Health - Seattle & King County, WA.  (details) (podcast) (slides pending)


Week 7 (02/16/10)
  "ISIS and Team Communication"
 
Brian Ross, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Institute for Surgical and Interventional Simulation (ISIS); Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  (details) (no podcast) (slides)


Week 8 (02/23/10)
 
"Barcoding in and beyond Pathology - a key to diagnosis and research"
  Rodney A. Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology;  Director of Medical Informatics, Department of Pathology; University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  (details)  (podcast pending)  (slides pending)


Week 9 (03/02/10)
  "Technologies and practices for exchanging information with the field"
 Eduardo Jezierski, VP of Engineering, InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters), Palo Alto, CA.  (details)  (podcast)  (slides)


Week 10 (03/09/10)
  "Health Record Banks: New Approaches to Consumer Controlled Health Information"
  Jac Davies, MS, MPH, Director of Northwest TeleHealth Regional Outreach and Health at Work Programs, Inland Northwest Health Services, Spokane, WA.  (details) (podcast) (slides)


Special Guest Lecturer Sponsored by CIPCT Program
Thursday, 03/18/10 - 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Health Sciences, Room T-661
  "Reducing Health Disparities through Informatics"
  
Dr. Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc, FAAN, FACMI, Columbia University.  Director of the Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved, Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Alumni Professor, Columbia University School of Nursing.
  (details)


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 Last Updated:
03/15/10

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