Plenary Address
Jean Sayre, Session Chair

Welcome

Christopher Squier, Associate Provost for Health Sciences

Keynote

Dan Masys, UC San Diego School of Medicine

"21st Century Biomedical Informatics: Confronted by Insurmountable Opportunity"

Knowledge Representation
Connie Delaney, Session Chair
Documentation of patient care and knowledge representation are key focus areas of informatics research. This session highlights patient focused representation schemes developed by nursing. Research on intervention and outcome classifications will be summarized; the validation of the mapping of these classifications to the USA mandated SNOMED CT reference terminology research will be discussed; and last, the findings of an exciting study focused on the challenges of natural language preference and structured terminology mandates will be described.

Der Fa Lu, College of Nursing

"Snomed CT Reference Terminology Mandate & Pist-mapping Validation Methodology for Nursing Vocabularies"

Sue Moorhead, College of Nursing

"Terminology to Capture Patient Care - Normalization Challenges"

"Patient Care Documentation - Structured Vocabulary - Natural Language Dichotomy"

Buffet Lunch - Richey Ballroom

"Informatics at Iowa"

Bill Decker, Vice President for Research;

Jean Sayre, Session Chair

Data Acquisition
Dave Eichmann, Session Chair
In the span of a lifetime, the acquisition and management of scientific data has gone from hand-written notebooks to gigabtye and terabyte datasets. The three talks expand into the dimensions of both volume and time from traditional two-dimensional image analysis and look beyond, to the creation of realities augmented with data to support the planning and execution of surgical procedures.

Eric Hoffman, Depts. of Radiology, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering

"Imaging-based Normative Lung Atlas: Basis for Detection, Quantitation and Tracking of Lung Pathology"

Milan Sonka, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

"Virtual Liver Surgery Planning System using Augmented Reality"

Michael Mackey, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

"Data Acquisition and Dissemination in the Large Scale Digital Cell Analysis System"

Ethical, Legal & Social Issues Panel
Steve Wieting, Session Chair
This session features a discussion of the political and legal issues and social implications of the conference topics.  Panel members will frame issues and provide viewpoints from their disciplinary specialties.  This is a key venue in the conference for audience observations and questions.

Margaret Brinig, College of Law

Robert Wallace, Dept. of Epidemiology

Lisa Troyer, Dept. of Sociology

Dinner on your own

Poster setup

Registration & Continental Breakfast - Big 10 Lobby

Posters - Penn State Room

Plenary Address
Jean Sayre, Session Chair

Betsy Humphreys, National Library of Medicine

"We Live in Interesting Times: Electronic Health Records, Digital Libraries, and Public Policy"

Break - Big 10 Lobby

Posters - Penn State Room

Translational Research
Tom Casavant, Session Chair
In translational research, informatics plays a role in all phases of research from the laboratory to the clinic and vice versa. This session examines a spectrum of translational research. One hour of presentations and panel discussion afterwards.

Terry Braun, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

"TrAPSS - Knowledge Discovery for Disease Gene Mutation Discovery"

Andrew Williams, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

"Distributed Multi-Agent Learning for Controlled Vocabularies"

"Genetics of Human Eye Disease"

Buffet Lunch
Comments and announcement of poster award winners
University of Iowa President David Skorton

Modeling and Simulation
Nick Street, Session Chair
This session will explore the development of sophisticated computational models of biological and environmental prcoesses and their applications to medical research and health care.

Dave Soll, Dept. of Biological Sciences

"Dynamic Image Analysis System (DIAS) Technologies"

Adrian Elcock, Dept. of Biochemistry

"Rapid Computational Identification of Therapeutic Drug Targets: Application to Protein Kinase Inhibitors"

Keri Hornbuckle, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

"Spatial and Temporal Modeling of PCBs and Other Persistent and Bioaccumulating Toxics in Lake Michigan"

Discovery
Mike Kienzle, Session Chair
The session will focus on the role of informatics approaches to "Discovery." Specifically, the presentations will illustrate how complex patterns and relationships may be determined from large data sets leading to new knowledge, a process that would be very difficult, if not impossible, without an informatics-based approach. Speakers will provide examples from their own work, including gene discovery, disease surveillance and text mining.

Todd Scheetz, Center for Bioinformatics

"Informatics for Efficient EST-based Gene Discovery"

Padmini Srinivasan, School of Library and Information Science

"Text Mining: Challenges and Opportunities"

Gerard Rushton, Dept. of Geography

“Exploring Spatial Patterns of Disease with Geographic Information Systems”