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List of Speaker and Organizer Bios Organized Alphabetically by Last Name
| Margaret Brinig, Ph.D. |
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Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development
College of Law
The University of Iowa
[Speaker] |
Dr. Brinig earned her B.A. from Duke University; her J.D. from Seton Hall University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from George Mason University. Professor Brinig joined the faculty of the College of Law in 1999, and is teaching courses in family law, insurance and contracts. She has taught family law-related courses for more than twenty-five years, although her primary research focus, the law and economics of the family, has developed more recently.
Her monograph on the intersections of law, economics and feminist thought, entitled From Contract to Covenant: Beyond the Law and Economics of the Family, was published by Harvard University Press in 2000. Family Law in Action: A Reader (with Teitelbaum and Schneider), was published in the summer of 2000. The second edition of her casebook, An Invitation to Family Law (co-authored by Carl E. Schneider) appeared in 2001. She is also the author of more than 50 journal articles.
Professor Brinig serves as a referee for the Journal of Legal Studies, the International Review of Law and Economics, The European Journal of Law and Economics, Gender Issues, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, and Columbia University Press. She is a member of the American Law Institute, an executive board member of the International Society for Family Law, and has recently been an officer in both the American and Canadian Law and Economics Associations. She is currently an officer in the Socioeconomics and Family Law Sections of the American Association of Law Schools. She holds graduate degrees in both law and economics.
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| Terry Braun, Ph.D. |
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Assistant Professor, College of Engineering;
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Roy J. and Lucille A. College of Medicine
The University of Iowa
[Speaker]
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Terry Braun is also the Director of the Coordinated Laboratory for Computational Genomics. Dr. Braun received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1993), M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1995) and Ph.D. in Genetics (2001) from the University of Iowa. His special fields of research include genetics, bioinformatics and computational genetics and macular degeneration.
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| Thomas L. Casavant, Ph.D. |
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Professor, College of Engineering;
Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
The University of Iowa
[Organizer]
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Thomas Casavant received the B.S. degree in Computer Science with high distinction, the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1983), and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1986) from the University of Iowa. In 1986, Dr. Casavant joined the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana as an Assistant Professor specializing in the design and analysis of parallel/distributed computing systems, environments, algorithms, and programs. He was Director of the PASM Parallel Processing Project and the Director of the Purdue EE School's Parallel Processing Laboratory. He has developed upper-division graduate courses in advanced computer architecture, distributed computing, parallel processing, an undergraduate course in Operating System Engineering, and has been instrumental in the organization of joint Electrical Engineering/Computer Science seminar series on Parallel Processing. In 1989, he returned to Iowa City to join the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Casavant has published over 70 technical papers on parallel and distributed computing, as well as genomics, and has presented his work at tutorials, invited lectures, and conferences in the United States, Asia and Europe. His work in the area of distributed computing includes design and implementation of an operating system for a point-to-point network of work-stations to behave as a single integrated transparent multiprocessor, contributions to the design of the AT&T 3B4000 distributed multiprocessor system at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1984, research in parallel computer architecture and systems, the design and analysis of load-balancing-based scheduling algorithms, distributed algorithm modeling, routing and task management in parallel systems, graph theory, and research in theory and implementation of trace recovery and programming tools for parallel/distributed computing. Since 1995, he has also become active in the Human Genome Project and has developed systems and tools for computational molecular biology, gene discovery, mapping, and disease identification. These tools include GenoMap (C) and GenoScape for the management and analysis of genetik linkage data, and numerous programs for gene discovery, and novelty analysis. He has been invited to lecture on topics spanning the fields of computer systems and parallel processing in general.
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| William Decker |
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Interim Vice President for Research
The University of Iowa
[Speaker] |
William Decker earned a B.A. (1966) and M.S. in Computer Science (1968) from the University of Iowa. Mr. Decker joined UI in 1966 and has since held a number of positions in the Information Technology Services and the department of Computer Science. He also worked as the Program Director for Advanced Networking Infrastructure (ANI), Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research, Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia.
Mr. Decker serves on several Boards of Directors including the Iowa Department of Economic Development; the Software and Information Technology of Iowa; and the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center at the University of Iowa. He is also a member of scientific and professional societies including Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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| Connie Delaney, Ph.D., R.N. |
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Professor, College of Nursing;
School of Library and Information Science
The University of Iowa [Organizer]
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Dr. Delaney is a Professor in the College of Nursing with a joint appointment in the School of Library and Information Science. She maintains a clinical appointment in nursing informatics in the Department of Nursing, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics.
Dr. Delaney earned her B.S.N. (1975) from Viterbo College, LaCrosse, Wisconsin; M.A. in Nursing (1978) and Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Computer Applications (1986) from the University of Iowa. She also completed postdoctoral study in nursing informatics at the University of Utah (1988).
Delaney teaches nursing informatics at the masters and doctoral levels and interdisciplinary health informatics. She is an active researcher and writer in the areas of the Nursing Minimum data Set (NMDS), the Nursing Management Minimum Data Set (NMMDS), International Nursing Minimum Data Set (iNMDS), knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), and outcomes research using minimum data sets.
Her contributions include giving numerous presentations and papers and holding offices in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA); International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), International Conferences on Nursing Use of Computers and Information Science; North American Nursing Diagnosis Association; the American Nurses Association including past chair of the Nursing Information & Data Set Evaluation Center (NIDSEC) Advisory Committee; Sigma Theta Tau; Midwest Nursing Research Society including the Nursing Informatics Research Section; American Society for Information Sciences. She currently chairs the AMA Nursing Informatics Working Group.
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| David Eichmann, Ph.D. |
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Director, School of Library and Information Science;
Dept. of Computer Science,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The University of Iowa [Organizer]
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Dr. Eichmann is Director of the School of Library and Information Science, with a joint appointment in the department of Computer Science.
He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science (1989) from the University of Iowa. He is a member of the Health Informatics Steering Committee and a member of the Executive Council for the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Before returning to the University of Iowa in the fall of 1997, he was an Associate Professor and Chair of Software Engineering at the University of Houston - Clear Lake and Director of Research and Development of the Repository Based Software Engineering Program (RBSE), where his responsibilities included management of a fifteen person research and development group working in the areas of reuse / reengineering and Internet resource discovery.
Dr. Eichmann joined the UHCL software engineering faculty in 1993. He led the Software Reuse Repository Lab (SoRReL) group at West Virginia University. He was a member of the software engineering and computer science faculty at Seattle University and database manager at Weeg Computer Center at the University of Iowa.
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| Adrian Elcock, Ph.D. |
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine The University of Iowa
[Speaker] |
Adrian Elcock received his B.Sc. (First class Honours) in Chemistry from the
University of East Anglia, UK in 1989, and a D.Phil. in Physical Chemistry
from the University of Oxford, UK in 1994. Following post-doctoral work in
the
laboratory of J. Andrew McCammon at UCSD, he became an assistant professor
in
the Biochemistry Department at the University of Iowa in October 2000.
His current research interests include (a) the development of molecular
simulation methods for modeling subcellular systems in atomic detail, (b)
the
development of computational techniques for rapidly identifying the cellular
targets of therapeutic drugs, and (c) the use of molecular dynamics
simulations to gain insight into factors that drive molecular association
events in aqueous solution.
Web site: http://dadiddly.biochem.uiowa.edu/
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| Michael A. Grassi, M.D. |
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Resident, Dept. of Opthalmology
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
The University of Iowa [Speaker]
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Michael Grassi earned his B.S. at the University of Southern Indiana and his M.D. at Northwestern University.
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| Eric Hoffman, Ph.D. |
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Professor
Depts. of Radiology, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering,
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine The University of Iowa [Speaker]
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Dr. Eric A. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the University of Iowa and is the director of the Physiological Imaging Laboratory in the Department of Radiology and the director of the Iowa Comprehensive Lung Imaging Center (I-Clic) at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Minnesota / Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in 1981 and remained on staff at the Mayo Clinic where he was a member of the team which Developed the Dynamic Spatial Reconstructor (DSR), a one of a kind CT scanner which was able to gather up to 240 contiguous CT sections of the body every 1/60 second. Dr. Hoffman moved from the Mayo Clinic in 1987 to head the Cardiothoracic Imaging Research Center in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania and then moved in 1992 to his current position at the University of Iowa. Throughout his career, he has utilized non-invasive imaging methods to study the basic physiology of the heart and lungs using both CT and MRI imaging methods. Most recently has begun to apply multidetector row spiral CT imaging methodology to quantitate human heart and lung pathology with a particular emphasis on utilizing X-ray CT to provide a comprehensive assessment of lung structure and function. Dr. Hoffman is the author of more than 190 journal articles and 20 book chapters in the field of dynamic volumetric imaging and served for 5 years as the founding chair of the Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Imaging sessions of the SPIE Medical Imaging conference. Dr. Hoffman was inducted into the college of fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in March of 2000. He is currently the principal investigator on an NIH sponsored Biomedical Engineering Partnership Grant in which researchers at 5 institutions have joined to build a computer-based model of the normal human lung based upon all the parameters that can be assessed by high speed multi-slice spiral CT. He is PI on several additional NIH funded grants aimed at studying normal and pathophysiology of the lung via CT imaging and his laboratory serves as the image archive and analysis center of an NIH sponsored 18 center trial for lung volume reduction surgery (National Emphysema Treatment Trial: NETT). This involves receiving, archiving and analyzing a half terra byte of image data using objective, quantitative computer based tools developed by Dr. Hoffman and colleagues. As part of the Bioengineering Research Partnership grant, Dr. Hoffman's laboratory has, as a centerpiece, a research dedicated state-of-the-art multi-detector row spiral CT (MDCT) scanner and an in vivo micro CT scanner. Through a relationship with Siemen's Medical, the MDCT scanner will remain at beta level state-of-the-art for the next 6 years.
Web site: http://dpi.radiology.uiowa.edu
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| Keri Hornbuckle, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
The University of Iowa [Speaker]
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Prof. Hornbuckle was an assistant professor in the Dept of Civil
Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1995
until 1998 when she joined the faculty at the University of Iowa. She holds a BA in Chemistry from Grinnell College and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Her research focuses on the fate and transport of persistent organic
pollutants (POPs) in natural systems. She has extensive experience in
field and analytical methods for POPs, including sampling and analysis
of air, water, sediment, vegetation and soils; design and
implementation of climate chamber experiments; and modeling of
air-surface exchange. Her scientific articles have been cited over 500
times in the peer-reviewed literature.
Current activities include field, analytical, and modeling studies of
PCBs, synthetic musks fragrances, and perfluorinated sulfonamides and
their degradation products. She is an associate editor of the Journal
for Great Lakes Research and the President of the International
Association of Great Lakes Research (IAGLR).
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| Betsy Humphreys |
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Associate Director for Library Operations; and Assistant Director for Health Services Research Information
National Library of Medicine [Speaker] |
As Associate Director for Library Operations, she oversees all public and technical processing services at the National Library of Medicine, including the operation of the reading rooms, reference and customer services, cataloging and indexing, MEDLINE and other bibliographic online databases, the Index Medicus, interlibrary lending, preservation, and the historical collections. Library Operations includes four divisions (Bibliographic Services Division, History of Medicine Division, Public Services Division, and Technical Services Division), the Medical Subject Headings Section, the National Network Office, and the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology. Together, these programs account for approximately half of the National Library of Medicine's staff and intramural budget.
As Assistant Director for Health Services Research Information she directs the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) project, which produces knowledge sources to support advanced retrieval and integration of information from disparate electronic information sources, oversees NLM's National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology, and coordinates NLM's activities related to health data standards and privacy. In this latter capacity, she represents NLM and the National Institutes of Health on the Department of Health and Human Services Health Data Standards Committee, which is responsible for implementing the administrative simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Web site: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/lo/humphreys.html
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| Michael Kienzle, MD |
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Special Assistant to the Dean;
Director, Office of Economic and Business Development,
Roy J. and Lucille A. College of Medicine
The University of Iowa [Organizer] |
Dr. Kienzle's current responsibilities include technology transfer, business development, technology planning and strategy, continuing medical education and provider credentialing.
Dr. Kienzle received his medical degree from the University of Iowa and residency and fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, in internal medicine, cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. Since his arrival at the University of Iowa in 1984, he has held a number of positions, including Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Assistant Director for Clinical Programs, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Biomedical Communications and Associate Director (Chief Technology Officer), University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Kienzle has served on the Telemedicine Subcommittee of the Federal Communications Commission and chaired the Ad Hoc Task Force on Telemedicine of the American College of Cardiology. He has directed the National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine, an NLM-funded research and development program. He was a founding board member of the AAMC Group on Information Resources (GIR) and recently served as the Chair of GIR. He has served on the IAIMS: The Next Generation task force, a group providing long term strategic planning for the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Kienzle serves on the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology.
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| Der-Fa Lu, Ph.D. , RN |
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Post-Doctoral Student in Nursing Informatics
College of Nursing
The University of Iowa [Speaker] |
Der Fa Lu earned the B.S.N. (1984) from Taipei Medical College; the M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (2001) from the University of Iowa. Besides her nursing career in Taipei and at the UIHC, Dr. Lu has also served as an assistant professor of nursing at Tzu-Chi University in Taiwan and a research assistant in the UI College of Nursing. She is a member of the Midwest Nursing Research Society and the American Medical Informatics Association.
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| Michael Mackey, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor, College of Engineering;
Dept. of Pathology,
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver
College of Medicine
The University of Iowa [Speaker]
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Michael Mackey received his PhD in Biophysics from the Unversity of California, Berkeley and San Francisco campuses. Much of his research is involved with the development of quantitative models of biological phenomena. His research program is based upon a nonequilibrium thermodynamic theory of living systems that he began developing while in graduate school at the University of California. To test this theory he has developed two complimentary approaches: computer simulation and digital image analysis of live, growing cell populations. He has also established a basic biological research program that was inspired by the predictions of the theory. These approaches have required that he develop expertise in the areas of cell biology, biochemistry, cell-cycle analysis, computer programming, and image analysis.
Continued development of LSDCAS, supported by NIH funds, has provided for many collaborative interactions at the University of Iowa. Currently, some 25 researchers are involved in this interdisciplinary project. Through close interaction with Dr. Fiorenza Ianzini of Radiology, LSDCAS is being extended to provide many new live-cell imaging capabilities, including the measurement of free-radicals and specific gene products in living cells. With the addition of deconvolution analysis (currently under development), this system will be capable of performing three-dimensional measurements of biological parameters in thousands of living cells for a period of up to one month. With Dr. George Weiner, we have established LSDCAS as a Holden Cancer Center Core Facility. We expect that LSDCAS will continue to provide many opportunities for collaborative research initiatives here at the University of Iowa.
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| Daniel Masys, MD |
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Director of Biomedical Informatics;
Professor of Medicine
San Diego School of Medicine
University of California[Speaker] |
Dr. Daniel R. Masys is Director of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. An honors graduate of Princeton University and the Ohio State University College of Medicine, he completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of California, San Diego, and the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego. He served as Chief of the International Cancer Research Data Bank of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and from 1986 through 1994 was Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, which is the computer research and development division of the National Library of Medicine.
At UCSD, Dr. Masys is involved in both clinical information systems and bioinformatics. He led a research team that developed a secure system for healthcare providers and their patients to access medical data using the World-Wide Web, supported by a research contract from the National Institutes of Health. He is also a member of a research group developing analytical tools for interpretation of gene microarray expression patterns.
Dr. Masys is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine in Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He was a founding associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and has received numerous awards including the NIH Director's Award and the US Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal. In 2001 Dr. Masys was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and is an appointed member of the IOM Board on Health Sciences Policy.
Web site: http://medicine.ucsd.edu/faculty/masys/
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| Sue Moorhead, Ph.D., R.N. |
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Associate Professor
College of Nursing
The University of Iowa[Speaker] |
Dr. Moorhead earned her B.S.N. at the University of Maryland and her M.A. in Nursing and Ph.D. in Nursing Administration from the University of Iowa. Currently her teaching focuses on leadership at the Master's level and administration at the PhD level. Her nursing background began in the US Army Nurse Corps where she served for 29 years in both active duty and reserve positions. Most recently she completed assignments as chief nurse in the two US Army reserve hospitals in Iowa. Her research interests focus on the development and implementation of standardized nursing languages. She is an investigator on the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) team and developed many nursing interventions for this classification. She has served as the facilitator for the testing of this classification at the Genesis Medical Center in Davenport, Iowa for many years. Dr. Moorhead is a Co-PI on the current Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) research focusing on testing the measurement scales used in the classification. She has chaired the focus group on psychological/cognitive outcomes and has developed methods for mapping nonstandardized nursing data into standardized language using NIC and NOC. In addition she assists nurses attempting to add standardized languages in both practice and educational settings. She speaks both nationally and internationally on NIC & NOC.
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| Aleta Porcella, Degree |
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Title
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
The University of Iowa
[Speaker] |
Aleta Porcella is a Registered Nurse with an extensive clinical background in adult and pediatric surgical nursing. Beginning in 1979, she has at one time or another held every position in the Department of Nursing from Nursing Assistant to Nurse Manager. In 2000 she received the first Masters of Science in Nursing Informatics degree ever bestowed by the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Ms. Porcella's 2001 AMIA publication Narrative Nursing Notes in a Nursing Information System (NIS) received AMIA's Harriet H. Werley Award, presented annually for the paper making the greatest contribution to advance the field of nursing informatics.
Ms. Porcella received her Informatics Nurse Certification in 2004. She is also certified as an Orthopaedic Nurse. She is a member of the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses, Sigma Theta Tau, the Midwest Alliance for Nursing Informatics, the American Medical Informatics Association, and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. She currently practices as an Advance Practice Nurse, Informatics at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
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| Gerard
Rushton, Ph.D. |
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Professor, Department of Geography College of Liberal Arts and Sciences;
Adjunct Professor, Health Management and Policy
College of Public Health
The University of Iowa[Speaker] |
Gerard Rushton, Ph.D., is Professor of Geography
and Adjunct Professor, College of Public Health, University of Iowa,
Iowa City, Iowa. His research on spatial decision support systems
has made extensive use of geographic information systems. His
current research projects are supported by the National Cancer Institute
and the Centers for Disease Control and involve the spatial
analysis of SEER cancer incidence data. He is author of a
CD-ROM and website on “Improving Public Health through Geographic
Information Systems.” In 1998 he received Honors for
Distinguished Scholarship in Geography, from the Association of
American Geographers. He is an Associate Editor for Social
Science and Medicine and is on the editorial board of the Journal
of Geographical Systems and three other geographical journals.
Dr Rushton has fifty refereed journal articles, many book
chapters, three edited books and three monographs. In the
last six years he has published in Geographical Analysis, Environment
and Planning B, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Annual Review
of Public Health, Applied Geographic Studies, Transactions of GIS,
Public Health Reports and Statistics in Medicine.
Web site: http://www.uiowa.edu/~gishlth/
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| Jean Sayre, MLS, AHIP |
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Director
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences The University of Iowa[Organizer] |
Jean Sayre is the Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa, and holds adjunct appointments in the UI College of Medicine and the College of Nursing. Sayre holds a master's of arts in Library Science from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor of arts in biology from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. A health sciences librarian for thirty years, Sayre is active in several professional associations and is a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. Sayre's professional interests include evidence-based practice, health information outreach, and information policy.
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| David
Skorton |
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President
The University of Iowa[Speaker] |
David
J. Skorton was appointed the 19th president of The University
of Iowa on March 1, 2003. He has been a faculty member at the
University since 1980. He holds joint appointments at the rank
of professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine, Electrical
and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. President
Skorton was appointed vice president for research in 1992 and,
additionally, interim vice president for external relations in
2000. He served as vice president for research and external relations
from March 2002 until he assumed the presidency. As vice president,
he oversaw more than 30 administrative units and headed a research
and development program that ranks among the nation's top 20 public
research universities in obtaining external funding. He also continued
his role as a physician, caring for adolescents and adults with
inborn heart disease.
Co-founder and
co-director of the UI Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Clinic at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, President
Skorton has focused his research on congenital heart disease in
adolescents and adults, cardiac imaging, and computer image processing.
His research was supported by the National Institutes of Health,
the Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Heart Association
and by private industry. He has published numerous articles, reviews,
book chapters, and two major texts in the areas of cardiac imaging
and image processing. He has served in a variety of administrative
positions at The University of Iowa, including director of the Cardiovascular
Image Processing Laboratory (1982-1996), director of the Division
of General Internal Medicine (1985-1989), and associate chair for
clinical programs in the Department of Internal Medicine (1989-1992). Web sites: http://www.uiowa.edu/president/bio.html
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| Todd E. Sheetz, Ph.D. |
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Professor, Dept. of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences;
The University of Iowa[Speaker] |
Todd Edward Scheetz received the B.S. degree (1993) in Electrical Engineering, the M.S. degree (1995) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Ph.D. (2001) in Genetics from The University of Iowa. In 2003, he joined the faculty of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. He has co-authored several papers in the areas of bioinformatics, high performance computer architecuture and parallel systems. Research interests include bioinformatics, disease gene identification, blindness, mapping, data-mining, and parallel and distributed processing.
Web sites: http://genome.uiowa.edu/clcg.html and http://www.c4md.org/
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| David Soll, Ph.D. |
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Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The University of Iowa[Speaker] |
Web site: http://www.biology.uiowa.edu/facultypage.php?ID=91
Web site: http://keck.biology.uiowa.edu/
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| Milan Sonka, Ph.D. |
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Professor, College of Engineering;
Dept. of Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences
The University of Iowa [Speaker] |
Milan Sonka received his Ph.D. degree in 1983. He is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa and IEEE Fellow.
Sonka's research interests include medical imaging and knowledge-based image analysis. A major focus of his research in the last several years has been development of clinically applicable automated techniques for cardiovascular analysis; pulmonary CT image analysis; cell tracking and cellular shape analysis, and augmented reality image-based surgical planning.
He is the first author of a book Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision published in 1993 by Chapman and Hall in London, 2nd edition 1998 by PWS, Pacific Grove, CA. He has co-authored or edited 10 other books including a major medical image analysis publication Handbook of Medical Imaging, Volume II - Medical Image Processing and Analysis published in 2000. He has authored 7 book chapters, over 50 journal papers, 120 conference papers, and more than 30 abstracts. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging.
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| Christopher Squier, Ph.D. |
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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Dentistry;
Professor, Dept. of Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine The University of Iowa[Speaker] |
Dr. Squier serves as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Dentistry and as Professor in the Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine at the University of Iowa. He also serves as the interim Associate Provost for Health Sciences, and the Provost's Special Assistant for Interdisciplinary Activities.
Dr. Squier earned B.A. (1963) and M.A. (1967) degrees from the University of Cambridge and has a Ph.D. (1967) from the University of London. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of London and was awarded the D.Sc. (1985) degree by the University of London. Dr. Squier is recognized internationally for his research in the area of oral mucosal disease, including oral cancer. In addition to his appointments in Dentistry, he is also Director of the National Research Center in International Programs funded by the Department of Education, which has a strong focus on global health. Dr. Squier's major research interest is in the role of tobacco and alcohol in the etiology of oral cancer. He directs the Oral Soft Tissue Research Program and the institutional Dentist Scientist Program in the College of Dentistry. He is a former editor of the Archives of Oral Biology and a current member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Oral Biology and the Journal of Dental Education. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Midwest Division of the American Cancer Society. He has written or co-authored over 150 books, chapters and articles in peer reviewed journals.
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| Padmini
Srninivasan, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science;
Co-coordinator, UI Health Informatics
The University of Iowa [Organizer] |
Padmini Srinivasan is an Associate Professor
with a joint appointment between the School of Library and Information
Science and the Department of Management Sciences. She also has courtesy
appointments in the College of Nursing and in the Computer Science
department. She has been a co-cordinator of the University of Iowa
Health Informatics initiative since the early 90s. Her research interests
are in: information retrieval, text extraction, text mining algorithms.
A significant application focus of her research is in the health and
bioinformatics domains. Most recently she was awarded a three year
research grant from the National Science Foundation on 'Text Mining:
Extending the Boundaries of Text Based Applications in Bioinformatics.'
Part of the research goal is to build and test a literature-based
knowledge discovery prototype called Manjal. Preprints of recent papers
written in collaboration with her students and colleagues are available
through her web site.
Web site: http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/padmini
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| Nick Street, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor of Management
Tippie College of Business
The University of Iowa [Organizer] |
Nick Street earned his B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science (1985) at Drake University; his M.S. in Computer Science (1990) at DePaul University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science (1994) from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Dr. Street was named the Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow and earned a University of Iowa Informatics Initiative grant, "Discovering Subpopulations of Human Responses to Health Care States in High-Dimensional Datasets" as a co-investigator. His areas of expertise include machine learning, data mining, image processing, mathematical programming and medical applications of data mining.
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| Lisa Troyer, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor of Sociology
The University of Iowa
[Speaker] |
Lisa Troyer earned the B.A. degree in Sociology (1989) from University of Washington and the M.A. (1990) and Ph.D. (1995) in Sociology from Stanford University. Before joining the University of Iowa in 1995, Dr. Troyer served as a research consultant with Sociometrics Corporation in Los Altos, California. Her interests include social psychology, organizations (particularly, work groups and organizational design), and theory construction. Currently, she is combining these interest in a research project investigating the relations between the social structures characterizing work teams and those characterizing formal organizations. She is also conducting research on participation in group decision making, and the effects of computer technologies on social processes in group decision making. Another area of research involves investigating the social dimensions of virtual reality. Her teaching interests include social psychology, organizations, technology and society, and sociological theory.
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| Robert Wallace, MD |
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Professor of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
The University of Iowa
[Speaker] |
Robert Wallace earned the B.S.M (1964) and M.D. (1967) from Northwestern University. He also earned the M.Sc (1972) from the SUNY Buffalo. He has served in various capacities at the University of Iowa since 1972. He directed the Cancer Center at the University of Iowa from 1994-98. Dr. Wallace is a member of the Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Institute of Medicine. He joined the College of Public Health in his current position in 1999. He teaches courses in Epidemiology of Aging and Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology. Dr. Wallace's current research interests include the epidemiology of aging; cancer epidemiology and control; clinical preventive medicine; survey research, and the prevention of disability.
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| Steve Wieting, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology;
Program in Literature, Science and the Arts
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The University of Iowa [Organizer] |
Dr. Wieting serves as Associate Professor of Sociology with a joint appointment in the Program in Literature, Science, and the Arts in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Steve Wieting earned a B.A. in Sociology (1962) from Whitworth College, Spokane; a B.D. (1965) from the Princeton Theological Seminary and the Ph.D. in Sociology (1971) from the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Wieting's interests are in the sociology of the family, research methodology, and the sociology of sport. Current projects include: the study of the history of divorce within the Icelandic family from 870 to the present; sport and cultural memory, and gender and sport in international contexts.
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| Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D. |
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Assistant Professor
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA [Speaker] |
| Dr. Williams formerly was an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering with a joint appointment in the department of Computer Science, and the Director of the Distributed Intelligent Agents Lab (DIAL) at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Williams received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1988) from the University of Kansas. He earned the M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1995) from Marquette University and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1999) from the University of Kansas. His special fields of knowledge include distributed artificial intelligence and intelligent agents and his present research interests are multi-agent knowledge sharing and ontology learning as well as bioinformatics and robotics in education.
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