MEBI
590,
Spring
2010 Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series
Class
Schedule
Week
1
(03/30/10)
"An
Indirect Treatment Comparison of Biologic Therapies in Rheumatoid
Arthritis"
Beth Devine, PharmD, MBA, PhD, BCPS, FASHP, Research Associate
Professor, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and
Policy Program, Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington,
Seattle (details)
(podcast pending) (slides)
Special Guest Lecture - Friday (04/02/10) NOTE: Location
is K-069 and Time is 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. "The National Health IT
Agenda" Charles P. Friedman, PhD,
Deputy
National
Coordinator
for Health Information Technology, Office of the Secretary
for Health and Human Services; Chief Scientific Officer, Office of the
National Coordinator, Washington, DC (details) (podcast)
(slides)
Week 2 (04/06/10) "What have you done for me lately?
Informatics on the front lines of Hepatitis C, substance use,
mental health complications, and community-based primary care"
Kenton T. Unruh, PhD, Program Administrator, Washington State
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outreach); Program
Operations Specialist, Project ECHO Telemedicine, Division of Allergy
and
Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Washington,
Seattle (details) (podcast)
(slides)
Week 3
(04/13/10) "Using the EHR to Improve Hospital Safety
and Quality"
Barry Aaronson, MD, FACP, FHM, Hospitalist &
Associate Medical Director for Clinical Informatics, Virginia Mason
Medical Center; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine;
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education and
Biomedical Informatics,
University of Washington, Seattle (details) (podcast) (slides)
Week 4
(04/20/10) "Open Data Kit: Open-Source Mobile Data
Collection" Gaetano
Borriello, Jerre D. Noe Professor of CSE, Department of Computer
Science & Engieneering; Adjunct Professor of
Electrical Engineering,
Human Centered Design & Engineering, and iSchool, University of
Washington, Seattle (details)
(podcast) (slides
pending)
Week 5
(04/27/10) "Mining Mountains of Data: Organizing All
Atom Molecular Dynamics Protein Simulation Data into SQL and OLAP Cubes"
Andrew Simms, BS, MS, Graduate Student in PhD Program, Biomedical and
Health
Informatics, Daggett Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle (details) (podcast) (slides)
Special UW Science in Medicine Lecture Thursday (04/29/10)
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Health Sciences, A-420 (Hogness Auditorium) "Genome-Phenome Correlation Using
Healthcare-Derived Biospecimens and Phenotypes Derived from Electronic
Medical Records" Daniel R. Masys, MD,
Professor and Chair, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee (link to webpage)
Week 6
(05/04/10) "Financial
Incentives
for
EHR
Use
and the Washington- Idaho Regional Extension
Center: WIREC" Jeffrey Hummel, MD, MPH,
Medical Director, Washington- Idaho Regional Extension Center, Qualis
Health, Seattle (details)
(podcast) (slides)
Week 7
(05/11/10) "Semantic
web technologies and a
library of reusable synthetic biology parts"
John Gennari, PhD, Associate Professor, Biomedical and Health
Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle (details)
Week
8
(05/18/10) "Finding
the Hidden Knowledge in Text: Natural Language Processing for Biology
and Medicine" Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz, PhD, Assistant
Professor, Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington,
Seattle (details)
Week 9
(05/25/10) "'Group
Health's Clinical IT Roadmap"
Gwendolyn B. O'Keefe, MD, Medical Director for Informatics and
Executive
Director for Care Delivery IT, Group Health
Cooperative, Seattle, Washington (details)
Week 10
(06/01/10) "Using Informatics to Support Aging" George Demiris,
PhD, Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems,
School of Nursing AND Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of
Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle