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Current News
MIS-WG EVENTS 2006:
EVENT #1: Joint DIA/AMIA Meeting
Medical Imaging Conference Critical Path Opportunities List: From Opportunities to Action
Date: 10/12/06 - 10/13/06
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Washington DC
Detailed Information at www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/criticalpath/
The Medical Imaging Conference explores key medical imaging issues on the FDA Critical Path Opportunities List that is available via the FDA site www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/criticalpath/.
Among the topics to be addressed are medical imaging across the drug development continuum; performance standards for imaging displays; imaging in clinical trials; and imaging biomarkers in cardiovascular disease, arthritis, neurocognitive disorders, and cancer.
The conference is co-sponsored by DIA and FDA in collaboration with AMIA, PhRMA, BIO, CORAR, and MICAA.
EVENT #2: AMIA 2006 Workshop
Biomedical Imaging Ontologies: Design Principles Enabling Interoperability for Imaging Applications, Tools, and Data
Date: 11/11/06
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: Jefferson East
Detailed Information at http://www.amia.org/meetings/f06/matrix.asp
Moderators:
Yasser alSafadi, PhD
Principal Member Research Staff
Philips Research, NY
Melvyn Greberman, MD, MS, MPH
President
Public Health Resources, LLC
Silver Spring, MD
Panelists:
Barry Smith, Ph.D., MA
Director, National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)-Buffalo
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
University at Buffalo, Buffalo
Werner Ceusters, MD, MA
Director, Ontology Research Group, New York State Center of Excellence in
Bioinformatics and Life Sciences
University at Buffalo, Buffalo
Ivo Dinov, Ph.D.
COO Center for Computational Biology
UCLA, CA
Daniel L. Rubin, MD, MS
National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)
Stanford University, CA
Barry Smith, Ph.D., MA
Director, National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)-Buffalo
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
University at Buffalo, Buffalo
EVENT #3: AMIA 2006 Workshop
Avoiding the F-Word: IT Project Morbidity, Mortality, and Immortality
Date: 11/12/06
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: Lincoln East
Detailed Information at http://www.amia.org/meetings/f06/matrix.asp
Panelists:
Bonnie Kaplan, Yale Center for Medical Informatics
Kimberly D. Harris-Salamone, FOX Systems, Inc.
Eric Z. Silfen, Philips Research North America
EVENT #4: AMIA 2006 Panel
Seeing Biomedicine: New Opportunities and Research Challenges at the Intersection of Biomedical Imaging and Informatics
Date: 11/13/06
Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location: International Ballroom East
Detailed Information at http://www.amia.org/meetings/f06/matrix.asp
Moderators:
Daniel L. Rubin, MD, MS
National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Casimir A. Kulikowski, PhD
Board of Governors Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Pisctaway, NJ
Panelists:
William E. Lorensen, PhD
National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC)
GE Global Research
Milwaukee, WI
Maryann Martone, PhD
National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research
Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)
San Diego, CA
Michael J. Ackerman, PhD
Assistant Director for High Performance Computing & Communications,
National Library of Medicine (NLM), NIH
Bethesda, MD
Ivo Dinov, Ph.D.
COO Center for Computational Biology
UCLA, CA
EVENT 5: AMIA 2006 Panel
Imaging Informatics: Applications and Theoretical Foundations
Date: 11/13/06
Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Throughbred
Detailed Information at http://www.amia.org/meetings/f06/matrix.asp
Moderators:
Melvyn Greberman, MD, MS, MPH
President
Public Health Resources, LLC
Silver Spring, MD
P. Karina Tulipano, MPhil
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Columbia University
New York, NY
Panelists:
Eliot L. Siegel, MD
Professor and Vice Chairman, Imaging Informatics, University of Maryland
School of Medicine Department of Diagnostic Radiology
Director, Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center Radiology
Baltimore, MD
Stephen Wong, PhD, PE
Director of Center for Bioinformatics
Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair
Harvard Medical School Executive Director, Functional and Molecular Imaging Center
Radiology Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Michael J. Ackerman, PhD
Assistant Director for High Performance Computing & Communications,
National Library of Medicine (NLM), NIH
Bethesda, MD
Usha Sinha, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Radiological Sciences
Informatics Center, University of California
Los Angeles, CA
EVENT #6: AMIA 2006 MIS-WG Business Meeting
Medical Imaging Systems WG Business Meeting
Date: 11/13/06
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Military
Agenda to Be Announced
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