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Biomedical Informatics Without Borders: Enabling Collaboration to strengthen research and care: September 2-3, 2008: Bethesda, MD

PLENARY SPEAKERS


Ken Buetow

Ken Buetow, Ph.D.

Associate Director for Bioinformatics
and Information Technology
National Cancer Institute - U.S.
Robin Clark

Robin Clark

Director
National Cancer Research Institute
Informatics Initiative - UK
Richard Begent

Richard Begent

Professor and Chair
National Cancer Research
Institute, Informatics - UK
Chris Carrigan

Chris Carrigan

National Coordinator for Cancer Registration
National Cancer Intelligence Network - U.S.
Lee Ann Coleman

Lee Ann Coleman, Ph.D.

Head of STM Information
The British Library
Matthew Day

Matthew Day

Manager, Pathway Interaction
Database Nature Publishing Group
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Alan Hogg, Ph.D.

Section Head, Platform Development,
National Cancer Research Institute
Informatics Initiative - UK
George Komatsoulis

George Komatsoulis, Ph.D. 

Deputy Director
NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics
and Information Technology (CBIIT) - U.S.
Wendy Patterson

Wendy Patterson, Esq.

Senior Advisor
Technology Transfer
National Cancer Institute - U.S.
Skip McGaughey

Skip McGaughey

Executive Director
Open Health Tools.org
Marc Overhage

Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D

President and CEO
Indiana Health Information Exchange

Eliot Siegel

Eliot Siegel, M.D.

Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology
University of Maryland

Darren Treanor

Darren Treanor, M.D.

Consultant Pathologist
University of Leeds


















 

 

 



Biomedical Informatics Without Borders Meeting Program

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Agenda & Presentations

Tuesday, September 2

9:30am – 10:00am

Registration and Coffee

 

10:00am – 10:15am

Welcome

 

10:15am – 11:00am

Opening Plenary

 

The U.S. caBIG™ Initiative

Ken Buetow Ph.D.
U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) Associate Director for Bioinformatics and Information Technology

The U.K. NCRI Informatics Initiative

Robin Clark
Director, U.K. National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Informatics Initiative

11:00am – 12:15pm

TWO PILLARS OF COLLABORATION:
Policy and Interoperability

 

 

Applying Data Standards in Clinical and Preclinical Investigation

Richard Begent, M.D.
Professor of Oncology, University College, London

Sharing Data Across the Pond and Beyond

Wendy Patterson, Esq.
Senior Advisor, NCI Center for Technology Transfer

Interoperability, Integration and Collaboration

Alan Hogg, Ph.D.
Section Head, Platform Development, NCRI
Informatics Initiative

caBIG™ Pathways to Interoperability

George Komatsoulis, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)

12:15 – 1:30pm

Lunch - (on your own)

 

1:30pm – 5:30pm

GRID INITIATIVES

 

1:30pm – 2:00pm

 

NCRI Oncology Information eXchange, ONIX

 

J. Max Wilkinson, Ph.D.
Scientific IT Analyst, NCRI Informatics Initiative

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Taverna, myExperiment and caGrid: Combining our Strengths for caBIG™

 

Carole Goble, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Using the Grid to Power Clinical Discovery 

Ian Foster, Ph.D.
Director, Computation Institute, University of Chicago

3:00pm – 3:30pm

ELIXIR

Stuart Bell, Ph.D.
NCRI Informatics Initiative
Presenting for

Andrew Lyall, Ph.D.
ELIXIR Project Manger, European Bioinformatics Institute

3:30pm – 3:45pm

Break and Poster Viewing

 

3:45pm – 4:15pm

geWorkbench: using caBIG™/caGrid to Enable Bioinformatics Applications

 

Aris Floratos, Ph.D.
Executive Research Director,
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University

4:15pm – 4:45pm

Biomedical Informatics Middleware, HPC and the Cardiovascular Research Grid

Joel Saltz, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair and Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University

4:45pm – 5.30pm

Grid Initiatives Panel Discussion

 

Co-Chairs:  
Ken Buetow Ph.D.
Robin Clark

 

 

5:30pm – 7:00pm

Reception, with Technology Demonstrations and Poster Viewing

 

 

Wednesday, September 3

7:30am – 8:30am

Breakfast and Poster Viewing

 

8:30am – 9.30am

PLENARY: Potential for Research Linked to Patient Records

 

 

Linkage of Patient Care and Activity data and the Benefits for Research

Chris Carrigan
Head of U.K. National Cancer Intelligence Network Coordination Team

Patient Research using a Health Information Exchange: The Indiana Experience

Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D.
President and CEO
Indiana Health Information Exchange

9:30am – 9:45am

Break

 

9:45am – 10:45am

Concurrent Sessions

 
Track 1: Clinical and Translational Research

John Speakman
Associate Director, NCI CBIIT

Richard Begent, M.D.
Professor of Oncology, University College London

Track 2: Progress on Global Standards for Medical Research

 

  1) BRIDG Charlie Mead, M.D., M.Sc.
Chief Technology Officer, NCI CBIIT
  2) CDISC Rebecca Kush, Ph.D.
President, Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, Inc.  

10:45am – 11:00am

Break

 

11:00am – 12:00pm

Poster Viewing

 

 

 

 

12:00pm – 1:30pm

POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION AND WORKING LUNCH

Richard Begent: Guidelines on Minimum Information Collection for Antibody Therapy Experiments (Abstract #30)

Irene Papatheodorou: Clinical Data Integration for METABRIC
(Abstract #35)

Denise Warzel: Forms Annotation and Registration in caDSR Facilitated by cancerGrid cgMDR (Abstract #15)

HongKee Moon: IM.Grid, a Grid Computing Approach for Image Mining of High Throughput-High Content Screening (Abstract #8)

Steve Harris: The Cancergrid Metadata Registry and Toolset (Abstract #21)

Alejandra Gonzalez Beltran: ONIX Semantic Federated Query Infrastructure (Abstract #31)

Susana Garcia: Lowering the Barriers to Cancer Imaging (Abstract #37)

Lorna Morris: Applying Astrogrid Techniques to the Analysis of Tissue Microarrays (Abstract #34)

Tony Pan: Utilizing caGrid Infrastructure for Pathological Image Analysis (Abstract #29)

Michael Gibbons: Populomics (Abstract #9)

5 minute presentations and discussions

1:30pm – 2:15pm

PLENARY: A Model of International Collaboration

Darren Treanor, M.D.
Consultant Pathologist, University of Leeds

Eliot Siegel, M.D.
Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Maryland

2:15pm – 2:30pm

Break

 

2:30pm – 3:30m

PLENARY: Beyond Research

 

 

Collaborations to Publish Research Data and Curated Databases Matthew Day
Manager, Pathway Interaction Database, Nature Publishing Group

Enablers of Collaboration include Trusted Anarchy, Silos, Transparency and Open Standard

Skip McGaughey
Executive Director, Open Health Tools

UK PubMed Central –the Development of a Biomedical Research Resource

Lee Ann Coleman, Ph.D.
Head of STM Information, The British Library

3:30  – 4:00pm

Closing and Announcement of Poster Prize Winners