CONGRATULATIONS TO TERRY SHEN!

Terry Shen has accepted an offer for a NLM postdoctoral fellowship with Johns Hopkins.  She will be starting September 1, 2009.

CONGRATULATIONS TO BLAINE REEDER AND GEORGE DEMIRIS!

Blaine Reeder and George Demiris recently had a manuscript, "Building the PHARAOH Framework using Scenario-Based Design: A Set of Pandemic Decision-Making Scenarios for Continuity of Operations in a Large Municipal Public Health Agency" accepted for publication in the Journal of Medical Systems.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MAX NEAL!

BHI is pleased to announce that Max Neal passed his General Exam on Friday, March 20, with flying colors.  We're looking forward to exciting work and results as he proceeds with his dissertation work.

CONGRATULATIONS TO PETER TARCZY-HORNOCH!

Peter Tarczy-Hornoch was elected by the AMIA Board to serve as Chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the 3rd annual AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics in San Francisco in 2010.

CONGRATULATIONS TO TERRY SHEN AND CASEY OVERBY!

Terry Shen's conference paper for the 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics was one of 17 selected to be published as a journal paper in BMC Bioinformatics: Evaluating the Accuracy of SNPit: a Functional SNP Annotation System.  Terry H. Shen, Christopher S. Carlson, Peter Tarczy-Hornoch

Casey Overby's conference paper for the 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics was one of 17 selected to be published as a journal paper in BMC Bioinformatics: The Potential for Automated Question Answering in the Context of Genomic Medicine: An Assessment of Existing Resources and Properties of Answers.  C. Overby, P. Tarczy-Hornoch, D. Demner-Fushman

ANNOUNCEMENT OF POSTER ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

Cooke, C. R., Solti, I. Watkins, T. R., Rubenfeld, G. D., Hough, C. L., Wurfel, M. M. "Automated identification of acute lung injury (ALI) cases using keyword search of chest radiograph interpretations."  American Thoracic Society. May 15-20, San Diego, CA, 2009. (Accepted for Publication)

CONGRATULATIONS TO IMRE SOLTI!

Imre Solti has been awarded an i2b2 Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellowship in Natural Language Processing.  i2b2 sponsors this collaborative postdoctoral fellowship in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington.  The fellowship has two goals:  1) to advance the collaboration between i2b2 and the Clinical and Translational Science Award recipient University of Washington, and 2) to enhance the NLP capabilities of the i2b2 infrastructure for automated identification of cohorts of patients for clinical trial enrollment.  We anticipate that the collaboration will lead to R01 grant application.  Peter Tarczy-Hornoch will be PI on the subcontract funding this fellowship.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF RECENT PAPERS

Civan A, McDonald DW, Unruh KT, & Pratt W. Locating Patient Expertise in Everyday Life. Accepted for presentation at the ACM 2009 International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP'09). Sanibel Island, Florida. May 10-13, 2009.

Meredith Skeels and Jonathan Grudin. When Social Networks Cross Boundaries: A Case Study of Workplace Use of Facebook and LinkedIn. GROUP'09.

Meredith Skeels, Bongshin Lee, Greg Smith, and George G. Robertson. Revealing Uncertainty for Information Visualization, Information Visualization (accepted).

ANNOUNCEMENT OF MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED

The manuscript that Ira Kalet coauthored with Onard Mejino, Mark Whipple, Jim Brinkley and Vania Wang (CSE student) has been accepted for the special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics on Auditing Ontologies.

Title: "Content-Specific Auditing of a Large Scale Anatomy Ontology"

UPCOMING POSTERS / PANEL / PRESENTATIONS

Papers accepted for AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics 

The Potential for Automated Question Answering in the Context of Genomic Medicine: An Assessment of Existing Resources and Properties of Answers. Overby, C; Tarczy-Hornoch, P; Demner-Fushman, D. AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. March 15-17, 2009.

Towards a Policy Framework for Supporting Inter-institutional Biorepository Data Sharing.  Anderson, N, Fryer-Edwards, K, Fullerton, M.  AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics.  March 15-17, 2009.

Posters Accepted for AMIA Spring Congress
 

Applying Ethnographic Methods to Understand Bi-directional Communication in Public Health.  Revere D, Lober WB, Baseman J.  AMIA Spring Congress.  May 28-30, 2009.

Implementing Cross-institutional Clinical Discovery for Population Based Translational Research, Anderson, Nick; Chilana, Parmit; Anderson, Kent; Wynden, Rob.  AMIA Spring Congress.  May 28-30, 2009.

Solti, I., Payne, T., Tarczy-Hornoch, P.  "Natural Language Processing of Clinical Trial Announcements: A Patient Centered Approach." AMIA Spring Congress, 2009.  

Panel Participation for AMIA Spring Congress - May 28-30, 2009

Strategies for Performing Distributed Queries upon Medical Record Data Located in Distinct Healthcare Entities.  Murphy, Anderson, Nick, Hastings, Shannon, Weber, Griffin.

Presentation at CHI 2009 - New Practices in Scientific Collaboration

Challenges of Implementing Anonymized Cross-Institutional Federated Querying for Clinical Translational Research."  Nick Anderson, Parmit Chilana, Peter Tarczy-Hornoch.  April 4-9.