MEBI
590
-
Spring
2011 Biomedical and Health
Informatics Lecture Series
Class
Schedule
Week
1
(03/31/11) No Class
this week due to Prospective Student Visit Days
Week 2
(04/07/11) Title: "Using
the EHR to Improve
Hospital Safety and Quality" Speaker: 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 3
(04/14/11) Title: "Methods
and
Tools
for
Exploring
Functional
Genomic
Data" Speaker:
William S.
Noble, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Genome
Sciences and
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of
Washington, Seattle (details)
(podcast)
(slides)
Week
4
(04/21/11) Title: "Semantics
of
Bioinformatics
Components
and
Models"
Speaker:
John Gennari, PhD,
Associate Professor, Biomedical and Health
Informatics, University of
Washington, Seattle (details)
(no podcast or
slides)
Week 5
(04/28/11) Topic: "Ontologically
Computing the
Spread of Tumor Cells"
Speaker: Ira J. Kalet, PhD, Professor
Emeritus, Radiation
Oncology, joint with Medical Education and Biomedical
Informatics,
University of Washington, Seattle (details) (podcast)
(slides)
Week
6
(05/05/11) Title: "Recognition
of Bio-molecular Events in Text: the BioNLP
shared task" Speaker:
Lucy Vanderwende, PhD, Senior Researcher, Microsoft
Research, Redmond,
Washington (details)
(podcast)
(slides)
Week 7
(05/12/11) Title: "Machine
Translation
for
Health:
Introducing
the
TransPHorm
Project" Speaker: Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS,
MPH, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice;
Assistant Professor,
Department of Health Services; Assistant Professor,
Division of
Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of
Washington, Seattle (details)
(podcast)
(slides
pending)
Week
8
(05/19/11) Topic: "Creating
the
Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record: VA Experience
with the
Nationwide Health Information Network" Speaker: W. Paul Nichol, MD,
Director, Medical Informatics, Office of Informatics
and Analytics,
Department of Veterans Affairs; Clinical Professor,
Department of
Medicine and Health Services, University of
Washington, Seattle (details)
Week 9
(05/26/11) Title: "deCIPHER:
Critical Illness Phenotype Extraction Project" Speaker: Meliha-Yetisgen-Yildiz,
PhD,
Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Health
Informatics, University
of Washington, Seattle (details)
Week 10
(06/02/11) Title: "Using
Network Models
to Understand GWAS Results" Speaker: Jun Zhu, PhD, Director,
Safe Bionetworks; Affiliate, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Institute (details)