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MEBI 590 - Autumn 2012
Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series

Class Schedule

Week 1 (09/25/12)
 
Title:  "PhysioMaps: A view of the Physiome"
  Speaker: 
John Gennari, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle (details)


Week 2 (10/02/12)
  Title:  "The Mobile Wellness Toolkit Project"
  Speaker: 
Richard Anderson, PhD, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle (details)
 

Week 3 (10/09/12)
  Title:  "Bringing Sensing to the Masses: Implications for Healthcare"
  Speaker:  Shwetak N. Patel, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Computer Science & Engineering AND Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle (details)


Week 4 (10/16/12)
  Title:  "A hierarchical model for association rule mining of sequential events: an approach to automated medical symptom prediction"
  Speaker: 
Tyler H. McCormick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle (details)


Week 5 (10/23/12)
  Title:  "Failures of Hospital Computer System Components and Their Implications for Patient Care"
  Speaker: 
Thomas Payne, MD, FACP, Medical Director, IT Services, UW Medicine; Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, Health Services, AND Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle (details)


SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE
Thursday, October 25, 1:30 p.m.
NOTE: Location is Health Sciences, Room T-359
  Title:  "Exploration and analysis of complex data using topological data analysis"
 
Speaker:  Eithon Cadag, PhD, Ayasdi Inc. (details)
 

Week 6 (10/30/12)
  Title:  "Beyond the share button: Challenges for social features in health and wellness interventions"
  Speaker: 
Sean A. Munson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle (details)


Week 7 (11/06/12)
  NO CLASS DUE TO AMIA 2012 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM


Week 8 (11/13/12)
  Topic:  "Inviting patients to read their doctors' notes: a quasi experimental study"
  Speaker: 
James D. Ralston, MD, MPH, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education AND Health Services, University of Washington; Associate Investigator, Group Health Cooperative, Research Institute, Seattle (details)


Week 9 (11/20/12)
  Title:  "Toward weaving clinical expertise in peer-patient conversations online" 
  Speaker: 
Jina Huh, PhD, National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, Biomedical and Health Informatics Graduate Program, University of Washington, Seattle (details)


Week 10 (11/27/12)
Topic:  "Crowdwork, Crisis and Convergence: How the Connected Crowd Helps to Organize Information during Mass Disruption Events"
  Speaker: 
Kate Starbird, PhD, Assistant Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE), University of Washington, Seattle (details) 



Week 11 (12/04/12)
  Title:   "Use of technology to support caregivers in hospice"
  Speaker: 
George Demiris, PhD,FACMI, Professor, Behavioral Nursing and Health Systems, School of Nursing, AND Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, School of Medicine; Graduate Program Director, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle (details)


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Last Updated:
11/29/12

Contact the instructor at: wpratt@uw.edu