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MEBI 590 - Spring 2013
Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series

Class Schedule

Week 1 (04/02/13)
 
Title:  "TransPHorm: Machine Translation vs. Manual Translation for Public Health"
  Speaker: 
Anne M. Turner, MD, MLIS, MPH, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice; Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services and Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington (details)


Week 2 (04/09/13)
  Title:  "Patients as Health Experts"
  Speaker: 
Wanda Pratt, PhD, FACMI, Associate Professor, Information School and Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics, University of Washington (details)
 

Week 3 (04/16/13)
  Title:  "Framing health smart homes research using an evidence-based public health typology: integrated methods and findings from a systematic review"
  Speaker:  Blaine Reeder, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, School of Nursing, University of Washington (details)


Week 4 (04/23/13)
  Title:  "Understanding and Reducing the User Burdens Associated with Interactive Technologies for Health and Wellbeing"
  Speaker: 
Julie Kientz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington (details) (podcast)


Week 5 (04/30/13)
  Title:  "A Big Data Revolution in Disease Burden Measurement"
  Speaker: 
Abraham D. Flaxman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Department of Global Health, University of Washington (details) (podcast) (slides)
 

Week 6 (05/07/13)
  Topic:  "The UW Medicine Amalga Data Repository
  Speaker: 
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, Chair & Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington (details)


Week 7 (05/14/13)
  Title:  "The Blood of the Soul: Strategies and Challenges in Clinical Interface Terminology"
  Speaker: 
Eric Rose, MD, F.A.A.F.P., Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Family Medicine AND Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington (details) (slides)


Week 8 (05/21/13)
  Title:  "How 'Community' Matters: Uncovering the Social Dynamics of Health Information Behavior in Everyday Life"
  Speaker: 
Tiffany Veinot, MLS, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information and School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan (details) (podcast)


Week 9 (05/28/13)
  Title:   "Patient-Friendly Medical Information Displays" 
  Speaker: 
Dan Morris, PhD, Researcher, Computational User Experiences Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington (details)


Week 10 (06/04/13)
 
Title:  "A general framework for estimating the relative pathogenicity of human genetic variants"
  Speaker: 
Jay Shendure, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington (details)



Past Lecture Schedules and Speakers


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Last Updated:
05/28/13

Contact the instructor at: amturner@uw.edu