AMIA 2005, Washington, DC Call for Participation

AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium
Biomedical and Health Informatics:
From Foundations, to Applications to Policy
October 22-26, 2005
Hilton Washington & Towers
Washington, DC
Symposium Main Exhibitors Call for Participation AMIA Home

Submission Deadline
Midnight, March 16, 2005 EST


An Invitation to Present

Message from the Scientific Program Committee Chair

AMIA 2005 needs you, and you need AMIA 2005.

Charles P. Friedman, PhD The AMIA Annual Symposium is recognized internationally as the key venue for the exchange of ideas concerning biomedical and health informatics. It is the place to hear about pathbreaking scientific work, to learn about evolving standards and policies for management of biomedical information, and to understand how cutting-edge technologies can best be developed and deployed in the health care enterprise, the biomedical sciences, and within health professions education. The AMIA Annual Symposium is unique in its emphasis on sound, unbiased, rigorously peerreviewed work. As such, the Symposium provides an exceptional open forum for presentation of results in both clinical informatics and bioinformatics, both practical and theoretical. This coupling of the biological and the clinical, of the foundational and the pragmatic, makes AMIA 2005 the premier conference for anyone working with informatics in biomedicine and health care.

We invite you to participate in this exciting symposium - which will be held October 22-26, 2005, in Washington, DC - by submitting papers, posters, panels, demonstrations, and workshops. Many of us believe that 2005 will be a breakthrough year for biomedical and health informatics. This year’s Annual Symposium will reflect and energize the many exciting developments happening in our field. The parallel development of a National Health Information Infrastructure and the “bench to bedside” translation of genomic information into clinical practice have taken informatics from a dream in the eyes of a few to an emerging reality in the eyes of the many. The ideas we develop and the systems we build will transform health care for both providers and recipients, will help ensure the health of communities, and will continue to revolutionize biomedical research and education. The stakes are higher now. We must build new and better methods; we must develop information systems that improve practice; and we must know what is working and what is not. Through numerous opportunities to contribute to the program and a vast array of opportunities to learn from others, AMIA 2005 enables participants to engage the field at this new higher level.

AMIA 2005 will retain many of the features successfully incorporated into AMIA 2003. These include the division of the conference into two distinct, but interrelated and coordinated, tracks: one emphasizing foundations of informatics, the other applications of informatics. As in 2003, greatly enhanced attention to the peer review process will ensure that each submitted work receives multiple reviews by persons who are the most knowledgeable in the world on the relevant topic. In this way, the work presented at AMIA 2005, be it foundational or applied, will be of the highest possible quality. It is this feature, more than any other, that makes the AMIA Annual Symposium unique.

Complementing the many peer-reviewed contributions at the symposium will be a series of invited lectures, state-of-the-art reviews, and panels with noted experts who are credible as well as engaging. Consistent with the renaissance of health information technology - seen from initiatives of the Office of Secretary of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and numerous venues within the private sector - the meeting will be enhanced with invited policy-oriented presentations and panels.

The opportunities for learning and for sharing information among colleagues at all levels will be unparalleled at AMIA 2005. The open reporting of results and experience is critical to our collective success as informatics continues to grow in the national spotlight. AMIA 2005 promises to be the most exciting conference on informatics yet, but only with your contributions of the best in informatics.

Charles P. Friedman, PhD
Chair, AMIA 2005 Scientific Program Committee
Senior Scholar, National Library of Medicine
On leave from the University of Pittsburgh


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