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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


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 Last Updated:
05/26/10

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