Biomedical Informatics Research Center
Seminar Series/Coming Events
Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series
Most presentations will take place from 12:00pm – 1:00pm on Wednesdays in the Froehlke Auditorium on the Marshfield Clinic Campus, Marshfield, WI. However, they can also be viewed at
Mediasite
from any computer connected to the internet. For copyright reasons, most of BIRC’s presentations are password protected. You must sign in (upper right corner of the webpage) to view. To obtain a password for BIRC events or viewer requirements, please contact Dixie Schroeder at 715-221-7266 or schroeder.dixie@mcrf.mfldclin.edu For technical assistance, please contact Marshfield Clinic’s Media Services at 715-387-9207.
2010 Presentations
January 6, 2010 - Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD., Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic: “Medical informatics in ICU: tool for science of healthcare delivery”.
February 17, 2010 - Lynn H. Vogel, PhD, FHIMSS, FCHIME, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Associate Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX: “EMRs, Informatics and Interoperability: Challenges and Opportunities”.
March 24, 2010 - Judith Gregory, PhD: Assistant Professor, Faculty Co-Coordinator of the Doctor of Philosophy in Design Program, Institute of Design, IIT: “Rethinking Health: Wellness Experience in the Current Healthcare Landscape.”
June 8, 2010 - Valerie J H Powell RT(R) PhD, University Professor, Computer & Information Systems Project on Clinical Data Integration (CDI), Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA: "Integration of Systemic and Oral Health Care in U.S. Health Care Organization and in Electronic Patient Records."
2009 Presentations
January 28, 2009 - Kevin Smith, MSIS; Senior Manager, CTSA Biomedical Informatics Program at Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR), Ann Arbor, MI: "Honest Broker: "An Informatics Initiative Enhancing Clinical Research and Care."
March 4, 2009 - Chunhua Weng, PhD: Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, New York, NY: “Challenges for Interdisciplinary Health Science Collaborations.”
September 30, 2009 - Daniel R. Masys, MD; Professor and Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN: “The informatics of biobanking and genome-phenome correlation using phenotypes derived from electronic medical records.”
2008 Presentations
January 10, 2008 - Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH; Chair of the Division of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN: "Mayo’s Clinical Research Legacy and Transition to Big Science"
January 31, 2008 - Patricia Brennan, RN, PhD, FAAN; Chair, Industrial and Systems Engineering (College of Engineering) and Moehlman Bascom Professor (School of Nursing) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin: "Personal Health Records Systems of the Future: A Bold Vision for people, Wisconsin and the country"
February 7, 2008 - Peter J. Embi, MD, MS; Director of the Center for Health Informatics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH: "Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Improve Trial Recruitment at the Point-of-Care"
March 13, 2008 - Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHMISS; Vice-President of Information Systems, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI: "Care Transformation and the Promise of HIT: Where Do We Stand?"
April 4, 2008 - Patrick Seeling, PhD; Assistant Professor of the Department of Computing and New Media Technologies, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI: "Busy Bee - An Introduction to ZigBee and Its Potential for Home Monitoring"
April 10, 2008 - Paul C. Tang, MD; Chief Medical Information Officer, Pala Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA: "Personalizing Health Care: Getting Patients Connected -- Online"
April 17, 2008 - Warner V. Slack, MD; Co-Chief of the Division of Clinical Computing, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA: “Cybermedicine for the Patient”
April 24, 2008 - Ida Sim, MD, PhD; Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Informatics, University of California - San Francisco, CA: "Sharing Clinical Trials Data and Metadata"
May 1, 2008 - Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, PhD; Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI: "Healthcare Using Pervasive Computing"
May 22, 2008 - Joan Ash, PhD, MLS, MBA; Associate Professor of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR: "Preventing the Unintended Adverse Consequences of CPOE" (Computerized Physician Order Entry)
July 24, 2008 - Eneida Mendonca, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; and Umberto Tachinardi, MD, PhD, Chief Information Officer; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
November 11, 2008 - Cornelia M. Ruland, RN, PhD; Professor and Director
Center for Shared Decision Making and Nursing Research at Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet HF, Oslo, Norway: ”Interactive communication systems to improve patient-centered care”
BIRC Events
November 11, 2010 World Usability Day
AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Meetings
November 13-17, 2010 AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC
October 22-26, 2011 AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC
For additional information please email Dixie Schroeder or call 1-800-782-8581 ext.17266.