Department of Biomedical Informatics

Biomedical Informatics Weekly Seminar

All graduate seminars are held on Thursdays at 4:15p.m. in HSEB 4100B unless otherwise noted.

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Julio C. Facelli, Instructor; David Young, Naresh Sundar, Teaching Assistants

Spring 2012

Date

Speaker

Title

Topic

Jan. 12 Brian C. Sauer, PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical Epidemiology
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah
EpiTools: A path to transparent, reproducible and reusable research
Jan. 19 Nancy Staggers, PhD University of Maryland Wicked Problems in Health IT
Jan. 26 Bernie LaSalle Dept of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah Extending REDCap - Incorporating Standard Data Elements and Terminology into a Widely Used Data Collection Tool
Feb. 2 Miriah Meyer SCI/ School of Computing, University of Utah Safinet Convocation
Feb. 9 Jennifer Garvin Veteran's Administration Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT Applied Informatics Research: Automating the Inpatient Heart Failure Quality Measures
Feb. 16 Hadi Kharrazi Univeristy of Indiana, Purdue University, Illinois Contextualizing CDSS in Tethered EHR/PHRs
Feb. 23 Gao Luo IBM Intelligent Personal Health Record
Mar. 1 Dr. Flory Nkoy
University of Utah
Leveraging Information Technology to Transform and Improve Long-Term Asthma Care
Mar. 8 Saeed Hassanpour, Ph.D. Stanford University Center for Biomedical Informatics Research Semantic-Based Information Extraction of Biomedical Definitions
Mar. 15 Spring Break No Seminar
Mar. 22 Reed Gardner Lecture
Donald A. B. Lindenberg, M.D.
Director, National Library of Medicine, NIH
Bethesda, MD
Unsolved Problems in Medical Informatics
Mar. 29 Dennis L. Parker University of Utah Medical Imaging at the University of Utah: The Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research
Apr. 5 Derek L. Hansen, Ph.D. Brigham Young University Social Participation in Health 2.0: Opportunities and Challenges
Apr. 12 Miriah Meyer, Ph.D. University of Utah Visualization for Biology
Apr. 19 Kathy Sward, Ph.D. University of Utah Clinical Research Informatics in the ICU
Apr. 26 Hong Yu, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Big Data and Informatics for Healthcare


Fall 2011

Date

Speaker

Title

Topic

Aug. 25 Joyce A. Mitchell, PhD Chair, Dept Biomedical Informatics State of the Department: Future Directions

Sep. 1

Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics

Clinicians' Information Needs, Online Knowledge Resources


Sep. 1 Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics

Electronic Health Records & Enabling Clinical Decision Support

Sep. 8 Bradford Hesse Chief, Health Communications and Informatics
Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program,
Div. of Cancer Control & Population Sciences
National Institutes of Health

Participating in Health: Technology Mediated Social Participation in Health and Healthcare

Sep. 15

Mark Yandell, PhD

Associate Professor, Dept of Human Genetics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics

A probabilistic disease-gene finder for personal genomes


Sep. 22 Scott Gaydos

Chief Technologist, HP Enterprise Services
US Public Sector Federal Healthcare

Applied Innovation in Federal Healthcare

Sep. 29 Scott Narus, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics

The Federated Utah Research and Translational Health electronic Repository –
FURTHeR: Biomedical Research Enters a New Frontier

Sep. 29 John Hurdle, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics POET2, preprocessing for clinical NLP: Meaningful Use quality measure extraction
Oct. 6 Cynthia Gadd Associate Professor and Director of Educational Program
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University
"Smallball" Evaluation -- The Memphis HIE Experience
Oct. 13 FALL BREAK NO SEMINAR
Oct. 20 Lewis Frey, PhD Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics Multiplicity: an organizing principle for cancers and somatic mutations
Oct. 27 Chuck Norlin, MD Associate Professor, Dept of Pediatrics Meeting primary care information needs with information technology
Nov. 3 Staal A. Vinterbo, PhD Associate Professor, UC San Diego Health information sharing and privacy
Nov. 10 Javed Mostafa, MA, PhD Director, Carolina Health Informatics Program,
U North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Consumer Health Information Searching: Interface Design and Personalization Techniques
Nov. 17 Denise Beaudoin, MD, MSPH, MS Assistant Professor, Dept Biomedical Informatics

Integrating Biomedical Informatics into Medical Student Education: Where Are We Now?

Nov. 17

Carlos Luis Parra,

Virgen del Rocío University Hospital Clinical Informatics at Virgen del Rocío University Hospital: an International Perspective
Nov. 24 THANKSGIVING NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING
Dec. 1 Peter Haug, MD This seminar will be held at Intermountain Health Care, Education Center and will include a tour of the Homer Warner Center. Introduction to Medical Informatics at Intermountain Healthcare
Dec. 8 Olga Patterson PhD Candidate
Automatic NLP adaptation for clinical subdomains with Sublanguage Semantic Schema System