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MEBI 590, Spring 2008
Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series

Class Schedule

Week 1 (4/1/08)
 
"Information Management Issues and Barriers in Biomedical Research"
   
Nick Anderson, M.S., Ph.D., Deputy Director Biomedical Informatics Core, Institute of Translational Health Sciences, Acting Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)(podcast)(slides)

Week 2 (4/8/08)
  "Visible Human 2.0"
   Michael J. Ackerman, Ph.D., Director for High Performance Computing and Communications, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. (details)(podcast)(slides)

Week 3 (4/15/08)
  
  No presentation this week

Week 4 (4/22/08)
  "The New Washington Emergency Medical Services Information Management System (WEMSIS), the missing link in Trauma Surveillance"
  
Dick E. Hoskins, Ph.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and Trauma Epidemiologist, Office of The EMS & Trauma System, WA State Dept of Health.
   Don Fernandes, WEMSIS Manager, Office of The EMS & Trauma System, WA State Dept of Health. (details)(podcast)(slides not yet available)

Week 5 (4/29/08)
  "Informatics Challenges for the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease"
  
Peter Myler, Ph.D., Professor, Pathobiology, Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, WA.(details)

Week 6 (5/6/08)
  "Practical Solutions for Clinical Informatics Challenges Using Natural Language Processing"
 
Imre Solti, M.D., Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)

Week 7 (5/13/08)
 
"Using an Informatics tool to Improve Implementation of Recommendations by Consultants:  An Example of the Role of Informatics in Care Co-ordination"
   Martin C. Were, M.D., Post-doctoral Fellow, Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN.

Week 8 (5/20/08)
 
"Information Flow and Collective Action in the Deep Field: InSTEDD in Cambodia"
   Eric D. Rasmussen, M.D., M.D.M., F.A.C.P., President and CEO, InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases, and Disasters), Palo Alto, CA.

Week 9 (5/27/08)
 
"Ontologies, Probabilities and Cancer: a Clinical Application of the UW Foundational Model of Anatomy"
  
Ira J. Kalet, Ph.D., Professor, Radiation Oncology
Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics Adjunct Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Adjunct Professor, Biological Structure Director, Security and Networking, UW Medicine IT Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Week 10 (6/3/08)
  TOPIC: Biosimulation and Semantics
  
John Gennari, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.



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 Last Updated:
5/1/08

Contact the instructor at: pth@u.washington.edu