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AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations, to Applications to Policy October 22-26, 2005 Hilton Washington & Towers Washington, DC |
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Why Attend the AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium? Charles P. Friedman Scientific Program Committee Chair AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium 
With unbounded pride in the accomplishments of our field to date and
excitement about what we will accomplish together in the future, I invite
you to the AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium and present a complete look at the
meeting program. This year's symposium occurs amidst the suddenly widespread
recognition that biomedicine is indeed an information science, a recognition
heard from the White House to every hospital and clinic, and the wetlabs of
individual biologists across the country and around the world. A general
awakening has occurred that the health and safety of individuals and
populations depend on access to and management of valid information. Health
care providers, biomedical researchers, educators, public health
professionals, planners and policy makers, and consumers of health care all
require excellent support through information technology and, increasingly,
cannot conceive of doing without it.
The AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium is for everyone concerned with fulfilling the great promise and rising expectations of information technology in biomedicine and health. Fulfilling this promise is difficult and is a science unto itself. Collectively, we do not yet know how to derive maximum benefit from clinical information systems, practice "genomic medicine", or build a national health information infrastructure. There are myriad problems that need to be solved. To these ends, AMIA 2005 will bring together those who are developing the new foundational methods and approaches, those who are putting these approaches to work in functioning information resources and studying their value, and those concerned with formulation of policies that will make possible the deployment and integration of these resources. Continuing the practice begun in 2003, most symposium activities will be categorized as either foundational in nature or emphasizing specific areas of application. While these categories exist to help guide participants to sessions of personal interest, the enduring strength of the meeting is the bridging of the two. The AMIA Annual Symposium stands unique as the place where the foundational science connects to the applications that work in the world. The vision of AMIA 2005 will be framed by the keynote address of Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of the US National Institutes of Health. A radiologist by training, Dr. Zerhouni has envisioned the role of biomedical computing in research and health care through his pioneering "NIH Roadmap". Subsequent plenary sessions-including presentations by Dr. David Brailer and the four directors of the new National Centers for Biomedical Computing-will develop these themes in detail. The meeting will feature 176 stringently peer-reviewed research papers and 300 poster presentations representing the best and latest research in informatics applied to health care, biomedical research, and the education of health professionals. The invited and contributed panels are always a highlight of the AMIA Annual Symposium. This year, 30 such panels will cover topics ranging from foundational issues such as data mining, ontologies, and building genomics databases to applications areas including clinical systems and personal health records, virtual patients for education, and systems supporting public health. This year, 29 tutorials, addressing key foundational and applied topics, will be offered by renowned experts. This year's tutorials have been organized into a curriculum with four distinct themes. Workshops, theater-style system demonstrations, sessions describing academic-industry partnerships, and "Meet the Experts" sessions complete the scientific program. The exhibit hall will provide opportunities to meet software vendors and publishers, as well as to explore opportunities for training in the biomedical informatics. AMIA 2005 provides the opportunity to listen and to speak: to learn and to grow. It is simultaneously a meeting about important ideas and how to put these ideas into practice, a meeting to uncover what is known and identify what is needed. I look forward to seeing you there. |
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