MEBI 590 - Winter 2012 Biomedical and Health
Informatics Lecture Series
Class Schedule
Week 1 (01/03/12) Title: "Information
sharing and collaborative technologies: The power of
peer support in online health communities" Speaker: Andrea
Hartzler, PhD, Research Scientist, Global Health,
University of Washington, Seattle (details)
(no podcast available) (slides)
Week 2
(01/10/12) Title: "Designing
Mobile Technology to Support Health Management in
Everyday Life" Speaker: Predrag
Klasnja, PhD, NLM Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical and
Health Informatics, Medical Education & Biomedical
Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle (details)
(no podcast available) (slides)
Week 3 (01/17/12) CANCELLED due to
inclement weather TO
BE RESCHEDULED IN SPRING QUARTER 2012 Title: "Integration
of genomic data into electronic health records" Speaker:
Dan Masys, MD, Affiliate Professor, Biomedical and
Health informatics, Medical Education and Biomedical
Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle (details)
Week
4 (01/24/12) Title: "Patient-Friendly
Medical Information Displays" Speaker:
Dan Morris, PhD, Researcher, CUE (Computational User
Experiences) Group, Microsoft Research, Seattle (details)
(podcast)
(slides pending)
Week 5 (01/31/12) Title: "Designing
Interactive Technologies for Supporting Healthy
Sleep Behaviors"
Speaker: Julie Kientz, PhD, Assistant
Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering and
The Information School; Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Computer Science & Engineering; Director,
Computing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab,
University of Washington, Seattle (details)
Week 6
(02/07/12) Title:
"Assessing Use and Usability of Pharmacogenomic
Clinical Decision Support Aids in a Computerized
Provider Order Entry System" Speaker:
Beth Devine, PharmD, MBA, PhD, Associate Professor,
Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research & Policy Program;
Adjunct Associate Professor, Biomedical and Health
Informatics; Investigator Lead, Comparative
Effectiveness Research (CER) Core; Surgical Care
Outcomes and Assessment Program CER Translational
Network (SCOAP CERTN), University of Washington,
Seattle (details)
(no podcast or slides available)
Week 7 (02/14/12) Title: "Bioinformatics
projects supporting Infectious Disease research
at Seattle BioMed" Speaker: Peter J. Myler, PhD,
Affiliate Professor, Departments of Global Health and
Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics;
University of Washington; Member, Seattle BioMed,
Seattle (details)
(podcast)
(slides)
Week
8 (02/21/12) Title: "New
challenges for AI in maintaining quality and
reducing costs in health care" Speakers: Bruce G. Buchanan, PhD,
University Professor of Computer Science Emeritus
(formerly also Professor of Philosophy, Medicine, and
Intelligent Systems), University of Pittsburgh (details)
(podcast)
(slides)
Week 9 (02/28/12) Title: "Health
Information Exchange for Public Health"
Speaker: Bryant T. Karras, M.D., Public Health
Chief Informatics Officer (Sr. Epidemiologist),
Washington State Department of Health, Seattle (details)
Week 10 (03/06/12) Title: "Meaningful
Use" and Patient Engagement in Self-Care Speaker: Huong Q. Nguyen, PhD,
RN, Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and
Health Systems, School of Nursing, University of
Washington, Seattle (details)