2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics

Welcome

2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics
Grand Hyatt San Francisco
San Francisco, California
March 15-17, 2009

"It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientific innovations we are witnessing into health gains for the nation... At no other time has the need for a robust, bidirectional information flow between basic and translational scientists been so necessary."

--Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of the National Institutes of Health, 2005

Download the Call for Participation (pdf)

Submission Deadline: September 24, 2008

This Page Contains:
Learning Objectives
Target Audience
Track Chairs (list)
Scientific Program Committee (list)
Advisory Committee (list)

Learning Objectives

To present the latest progress on using informatics approaches to improve translational biomedical research
To provide a platform to share research-related issues among the nationwide initiatives on translational research informatics, such as CTSA, caBIG, NCBC, etc.
To identify the current challenges of translational research informatics and to define the future directions
Articulate challenges and opportunities in translational bioinformatics
To learn a framework for developing, deploying and assessing translational bioinformatics initiatives.
To acquire techniques for implementing specific clinical decision support interventions
To appreciate how translational bioinformatics may be deployed to enhance clinical and translational research
To review and gain an understanding of key lessons learned by translational bioinformatics researchers
Identify areas of interaction among computational biology, genomics research, electronic health records, health information exchanges, and public health.

Target Audience

Biomedical and health informatics researchers and faculty
Staff members and researchers implementing the informatics components of Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA)
Health information and knowledge management professionals
Computer scientists and system developers
Computational biologists with interests in human disease
Statistical geneticists, molecular biologists, and physician-scientists with interests in genetics or genomics
Industry representatives related to bioinformatics and genomics
Government officials and policy makers
HIT industry professionals and consultants
Physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other clinicians
Public health informaticians/practitioners, consumer advocates, and disease management specialists
Standards developers

Track Chairs

Olivier Bodenreider, NIH/NLM Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
Mark Hoffman, Cerner Corporation
Maricel G. Kann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dan L. Nicolae, University of Chicago
Marco Ramoni, Harvard Medical School
Eitan Rubin, Ben Gurion University
Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago
Joel Saltz, Ohio State University
Indra Neil Sarkar, Marine Biological Laboratory
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University

Scientific Program Committee

Riccardo Bellazzi, Universita di Pavia
Howard Bilofsky, University of Pennsylvania
Lewis Frey, University of Utah
Debraj GuhaThakurta, Rosetta Inpharmatics/Merck
Raphael D. Isokpehi, Jackson State University
Ju Han Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Younghee Lee, University of Chicago
Hongfang Liu, Georgetown University Medical Center
Brad Malin, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Eneida Mendonca, University of Chicago
Eric Neumann, Clinical Semantics Group
Philip Payne, Ohio State University
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University School of Medicine
Josh Stuart, University of California, Santa Cruz
Yao Sun, University of California, San Francisco
Dave Tabb, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, University of Washington
Karina Tulipano, Philips Research North America
Adam Wilcox, Columbia University
Qing Zeng, Harvard University

Advisory Committee

Russ Altman, Stanford University
Judith Blake, The Jackson Laboratory
Nancy Cox, University of Chicago
Carol Friedman, Columbia University
Isaac Kohane, Harvard Medical School
Suzanna Lewis, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel R. Masys, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Joyce Mitchell, University of Utah
Lucila Ohno-Machado, Brigham and Women's Hospital
David States, University of Michigan