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.
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.”
November 11, 2009 Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD: Director of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program and Henderson Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Members School, Boston, MA: “Instrumenting the Healthcare Enterprise for Discovery Research in the Genomic Era.”
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 at 2:00pm 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 at 12Noon 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 at 12:30pm Warner V. Slack, MD; Co-Chief of the Division of Clinical Computing, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA: “Cybermedicine for the Patient”
April 24, 2008 at 1:30pm 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 at 12Noon 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 12, 2009 World Usability Day
AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Meetings
November 14-18, 2009 AMIA 2009 Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA
For additional information please email Dixie Schroeder or call 1-800-782-8581 ext.17266.