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Information Management: Novel Ideas, Novel Funding Register at https://www.amia.org/secure/order/login.asp?fid=spring Attendees will be introduced to creative ways of securing funds for information technology, knowledge management, health informatics and bioinformatics projects. They will hear about the types of innovative projects that meet funding agency criteria, as well as the best methods to obtain funding. The meeting will provide a forum for attendees to share ideas and strategically think about how to initiate collaborative projects at their organizations. PROGRAM Thursday, May 18 5- 9 PM Reception, poster session and dinner Friday, May 19 7-8:30 AM Breakfast 8:30-11:30 AM Morning session: Carl D. Stevens, MD, MPH Dr. Carl Stevens will discuss several trends that are dramatically changing medical education at all levels. These trends challenge medical schools to begin teaching several new basic sciences, which include clinical outcomes measurement, online literature searching, critical appraisal of published studies, use of personal digital assistants and other decision support systems, physician performance profiling, and partnering with payers around clinical performance. Dr. Stevens leveraged foundation start-up funds into a transformation of the educational process at the School of Medicine at UCLA. Richard W. Freeman, MD, ScD, FACP Dr. Richard Freeman will describe his prior experiences in the Section of Medical Informatics at NYU and their participation in a CDC Center for Public Health Preparedness initiative. The project focuses on educating primary care physicians about the diagnosis and treatment of psychosocial and emotional pathology that follows a disaster, which includes both in-person training and Web-based educational components. Christoph U. Lehmann, MD Dr. Christoph Lehmann will detail his success in recruiting a corporate partner to support his clinical informatics venture. Johns Hopkins brought its research expertise and clinical space to the project, while the private company partner provided a product for evaluation as well as financial resources. The project involved a system designed to meet communication needs of workers requiring local mobility (nurses, physicians etc). The novelty in the Hopkins experience is in the way the collaboration was initiated and the means by which road blocks were overcome. With government funding becoming increasingly difficult to obtain, these collaborations may be a possible solution for informatics researchers in the future. 11:30 – 12:45 PM Lunch and posters open for viewing 12:45 –3:15 PM Afternoon Panel: Anthony Hayward MD, PhD Dr. Anthony Hayward will discuss NIH's new Clinical and Translational Science Awards that are co-funded by the NIH Roadmap and the National Center for Research Resources. The intent of the CTSA awards is to transform the clinical research environment and to speed translational research. Biomedical Informatics will be a key function for these awards and will provide an opportunity to identify common vocabularies, interoperable systems, and best practices that can then be implemented at a multi-institutional level. William J. Welsh, PhD Dr. William Welsh will explain the University-wide initiatives that he coordinates in bioinformatics, chemical informatics, and computer-aided molecular modeling & design. In collaboration with Rutgers and Princeton Universities and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Center for Toxicoinformatics, National Center for Toxicological Research (U.S. FDA-NCTR), UMDNJ was awarded a five-year, $5 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a Research Center of Excellence for Environmental Bioinformatics and Computational Toxicology. As PI of the grant proposal, Dr. Welsh will serve as director of this new enterprise. The proposed Research Center brings together a team of scientists with diverse backgrounds in enviroinformatics, cheminformatics and bioinformatics, to develop and apply novel informatics-driven computational technologies that will help identify and quantify chemical hazards in the environment that pose risks for humans and wildlife. The application, which included contributions from twelve faculty members, creates the first such research center of its kind in the nation. Holly Shipp Buchanan, MLn, MBA, EdD Dr. Holly Buchanan will discuss the development of the UNM Knowledge Management and Information Technology program and the diversification of their funding portfolio. The program was borne out of an IAIMS planning grant that ended in 2000. Dr. Buchanan coordinates the program within the Health Sciences Center environment and serves as the Health Sciences Center representative on the new UNM-wide IT Cabinet, chaired by the university CIO. Dr. Buchanan will be joined by Sally Bowler-Hill, Information Systems Planner for the KMIT program. MEETING SPONSORHIP This meeting is sponsored by the IAIMS Consortium, a group of approximately 40 universities that been awarded grants for Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) by the NIH-National Library of Medicine. NLM's IAIMS program has been in existence for over 20 years, and represents its premier effort to advance the development of innovative computing and communication technologies in health care education, patient care and research at academic medical centers and other institutions. The Consortium's Web site lists its members and includes other information about the organization: http://www.iaimscons.org. The Consortium is an affiliate organization of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). The meeting is scheduled immediately following the AMIA Spring Congress, Informatics Across the Spectrum - from Clinical Care to Biomedical Research http://www.amia.org/index.asp at the same site, and just prior to the Medical Library Association Annual meeting, Transformation A-Z (http://www.mlanet.org) in the same city. MEETING REGISTRATION Full Meeting registration, inclusive of all meals, is $235. CALL FOR POSTERS Purpose and Scope Poster Sessions Schedule and Details
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