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MEBI 590 - Spring 2012
Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series

Class Schedule

Week 1 (03/27/12)
 
Title:  "Integration of genomic data into electronic health records"
  Speaker: 
Dan Masys, MD, Affiliate Professor, Biomedical and Health Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle (details) (podcast) (slides)


Week 2 (04/03/12)
 
Title:  "Patient 'edu-powerment' - A technology-based approach to making medical research transparent and interactive for patients and families"
  Speaker: 
Derek Streat, Co-Founder and CEO, and Jay Bartot, Co-Founder and CTO, Medify, Inc., Seattle (details) (no podcast or slides available)
 

Week 3 (04/10/12)
  Title:  "Studies of the Pursuit of Healthcare Information on the Web"

  Speaker:  Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD, Deputy Managing Director and Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research; Affiliate Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology / Computer Science and Engineering / Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle (details) (podcast)


Week 4 (04/17/12)
 
Title:   "Classification of medical assertions and its application to phenotype identification"
  Speaker:  Cosmin Adrian Bejan, PhD, Senior Fellow / Post-doctoral Researcher, Biomedical and Health Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle (details) (podcast)


Week 5 (04/24/12)
  Title: "Remote and Social: Managing chronic disease with patient self-monitoring and Facebook"
  Speaker:  William Reid, FACHE, Vice President, Product Management, Numera Inc., Seattle (details) (podcast) (slides)

 
Week 6 (05/01/12)
 
Title:  "TransPHorm: Machine Translation for Health Promotion"
  Speaker:  Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice; Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services; Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle (details)


Week 7 (05/08/12)
  Title:  "Adventures in Using Health IT in Primary Care Practice: Case Studies of Seven Rural Primary Care Practices"
  Speaker:  Paul Gorman, MD, Associate Professor, Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon (details)


Week 8 (05/15/12)
  Title:  "Dynameomics: What to do with mountains of data?"
  Speakers:  Valerie Daggett, PhD, Professor, Department of Bioengineering; Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education; Adjunct Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle (details) (no podcast or slides available)


Week 9 (05/22/12)
CANCELLED due to speaker unavailability

 
Title:  "Implementation Science: Overview and Discussion
of Opportunities for BHI Researchers"
  Speaker:  Jim Tufano, PhD, MHA, Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle


Week 10 (05/29/12)
  Title:  "Analyzing a Large Recipe Database to Advance Nutrition Research"
 
Speaker:  Neil Abernethy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, School of Medicine; Joint Assistant Professor, Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle (details)


SPECIAL DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS AND MEDICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM/GRAND ROUNDS (06/26/12)
  Title:  "Healthcare 2020: From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg or The De-Guilding of American Healthcare"
 
Speaker:  Kevin M. Fickenscher, M.D., CPE, FACPE, FAAFP, President and CEO, The American Medical Association (AMIA) (details) (video)


Past Lecture Schedules and Speakers


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 Last Updated:
07/03/12

Contact the instructor at: wpratt@uw.edu