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MEBI 590, Spring 2007
Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series

Class Schedule

Week 1 (3/27)
 
"Exploring Genomic Medicine Using Integrative Biology"
   
Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor Stanford University School of Medicine, Director, Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. (details)

Week 2 (4/3)
  "Health Monitoring and Patient Engagement Through
Regional Health Information Exchanges"

   Bill Lober, M.D., Associate Professor Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems and Associate Professor Biomedical and Health Informatics,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)

Week 3 (4/10)
  Topic Area: Electronic medical records
  
Andrew Ury, M.D., VP/ General Manager, Practice Partner, McKesson, Seattle, WA. Commissioner, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology
(CCHIT). Past Vice Chair,  Electronic Health Records Vendor Association (EHRVA)

Week 4 (4/17)
  "Swimming in the Gobs of Data"
  
Eugene Kolker, Ph.D., Chief Data Officer, Seattle Children's
Hospital and Regional Medical Center, President and Director, The BIATECH Institute, Seattle, WA, and Affiliate Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)

   Special Additional Presentation Tue 4/17
    1:00-1:50 PM, Mary Gates Hall, Room 234
    "Wireless Internet Information Systems for Medical Response in Disasters"
  
Leslie Lenert, M.D., Director of Health Services Research and Development for the Department of Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, Associate Director of the San Diego Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and Professor of Medicine, University of California San Diego. (details)
 

Week 5 (4/24)
  "Current federal efforts at the intersection of public health and biomedical informatics"
  
Patrick O'Carroll, M.D., M.P.H., Regional Health Administrator, Region X, RADM, USPHS Commissioned Corps, Seattle, WA. Affiliate Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)

Week 6 (5/1)
  "Using information technology to motivate health behavior change: examples from the field"
  
Dimitri Christakis, M.D., M.P.H.,
Director of Child Health Institute, Seattle, WA, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)

Week 7 (5/8)
  
"Decision Support for Biosurveillance"
  
Jason N Doctor, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. (details)


Week 8 (Regular presentation Tue 5/15 and extra presentation Mon 5/14)
  
Mon 5/14 "Shared Services: A Unique Model for Addressing Health Care's Challenges"
   Location: K-069, 12:00-12:50
   
Jac Davies, M.S., M.P.H., Director of Development for Inland Northwest Health Services and Douglas L. Weeks, Ph.D.
, Senior Investigator Inland Northwest Health Services. (details)

   Tue 5/15 "A (more) Modest Semantic Web for the Modern Biologist"
   
John Gennari, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)

Week 9 (5/22)
  
"Information and Communication Technologies for HIV/STD"
   
Ann Kurth, R.N., C.N.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biobehavioural Nursing and Health Systems, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Director UW Graduate Certificate Program in HIV/STIs,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (details)

Week 10 (5/29)
  
"Order and Chaos in Medical Data Communication: DICOM and HL7"
   
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. (details)



Past Speakers: Fall 2006, Winter 2007


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 Last Updated:
05/11/07

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