Featured Speakers

The AMIA 2000 Spring Congress will combine presentations, through plenary addresses and topical panels, with small group discussion sessions and plenty of other opportunity for exchange among attendees. The Spring Congress will feature a line-up of experts on quality improvement. The following is a partial list of confirmed speakers . . . keep a watch on the AMIA Web site at www.amia.org for the latest complete list of speakers and other information. Here are a few of the plenary speakers and panelists you will hear . . .

David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Medical Director, Division of General Medicine, Partners Health Care

Helen Burstin, MD, Director for Primary Care Research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and President, American Medical Informatics Association

Carolyn Cocotas, RT, MPHA, Executive Director ,Performance Measurement Coordinating Council

Michael R. Cohen, President, Institute for Safe Medical Practices

Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, Director, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

John M. Eisenberg, MD, Administrator, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Joyce Flory, PhD, President, Communications for Business and Health, and Editor, Internet Healthcare Strategies

Arnie Epstein, John H. Foster Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health

Robert H. Friedman, MD, Associate Professor, Boston University and Chief Medical Information Systems Unit, Boston Medical Center

Gilles Frydman, Founder and President, Association of Cancer Online Resources

Cynthia Gadd, PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, Director, Bioethics Program, University of Miami

Paul N. Gorman, MD, Assistant Professor, Oregon Health Sciences University

J. Keith Green, Chief Technology Officer, drkoop.com

Robert A. Greenes, MD, PhD, Director, Decision Systems Group, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's Hospital

Sheldon Greenfield, MD, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, New England Medical Center, Primary Care Outcomes Research Institute

Jerome H. Grossman, M.D., Chairman & CEO, Lion Gate Management Corporation

Edward L. Hannan, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy Management and Behavior, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany

R. Brian Haynes, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University

Thomas K. Houston, MD, MPH, Research Fellow, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, Lecturer, Yale Center for Medical Informatics and President, Kaplan Associates

Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD, Department of Information Systems, Partners Health Care

David Lansky, PhD, President, FACCT--Foundation for Accountability

Lucian Leape, MD, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health

Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD, Director, Medical Informatics Education, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Jerod Loeb, Ph.D., Vice President of Research and Measurement, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, Senior Vice President for Clinical Informatics, MedicaLogic, Inc., Chairman, Computer-based Patient Record Institute

J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, Professor, Regenstrief Institute

David B. Pryor, MD, System Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Allina Health Systems

Helga E. Rippen, MD, PhD, MPH, Director of Medical Informatics, Pfizer Health Solutions, Inc. and Chair, Internet Healthcare Coalition

Michael Shabot, MD, Director, Enterprise Information Service, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Thomas B. Sheridan, ScD, Professor of Engineering and Applied Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ida Sim, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco

Warner V. Slack, MD, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Co-President, Center for Clinical Computing

Tamara T. Stone, PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management & Informatics, University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine

Paul C. Tang, MD, Vice President, Epic Research Institute, and Medical Director of Clinical Informatics, Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, Vice President, Clinical and Patient Systems, HEALTHvision

Bernard P. Wess, Jr., CEO, InfoMedtrics, Inc.