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Invitation to Participate from the Scientific Program Committee Chair

Mark E. Frisse
2008 Spring Congress Scientific Program Committee Chair
Vanderbilt Center for Better Health
Nashville, Tennessee


Please mark your calendars for the 2008 AMIA Spring Congress to be held May 29-31, 2008 at the Arizona Grand Resort (formerly named the Pointe South Mountain Resort) in Phoenix, Arizona. Building on the momentum of the Annual Symposium, the ongoing activities of AMIA Working Groups, and new activities like our Summit on Translational Bionformatics, our election year Spring Congress will focus on the significant opportunities that await our profession.

We intend to bring the finest minds from industry, government, the academic, and non-profit sectors to engage in a three-stage process that will leave each attendee with new knowledge, new professional associations, and an agenda for working even more effectively alone and in groups in the year ahead. Together we will conduct a fairly comprehensive environmental scan to develop a common view of the opportunities and challenges that we face. We will then participate in a number of highly focused discussions to understand how our profession can best frame key informatics issues and identify the resources and steps required to impact change. Finally, we will assemble a consensus group to give their differing perspectives on the applied and theoretical activities they deem most important in the coming year. The overall goal is to ensure that every attendee broadens their view of our profession, focuses their energies on pressing acts, and identifies methods and collaborators that will lead to a more vibrant health informatics community.

Our activities will center on four major types of initiatives where a more concerted set of activities by AMIA members can make a significant difference. These initiatives are:

• The development of effective electronic health records and the evaluation of their impact on care delivery;
• The incremental definition of personal health records and the new challenges associated with emerging approaches to PHR development and use;
• The technologies, policies, research, and social structures required to create a stronger public health informatics infrastructure;
• The opportunities and challenges associated with accelerating the field of clinical research informatics.

To foster the dialogue and focused action required of our organization, we are inviting you to submit panel proposals, presentation proposals, and poster submissions. We even more strongly encourage AMIA members and working groups to help us identify the kind of voices outside of AMIA whose attendance and active participation in our meetings will stimulate discussion and lead to more innovative approaches to the challenges associated with our four theme areas. Our desire is to assemble a cadre of diverse leaders and investigators from within and without our organization and, by bringing all together in an informal but highly structured event, gain a greater understanding of the national environment and through our work more greatly infl uence the course of events.

As we assemble a program committee for the Spring Congress our desire is to create an event that is both based on our tradition yet novel; an event that challenges our assumptions about our profession but reinforces our convictions; an event that helps our community learn collectively while at the same time offering an even greater promise of demonstrating our value to an increasingly complex biomedical and health care environment. More than anything, our desire is to bring to you three days of the most stimulating professional activity possible and to leave you with new ideas, new energy, and new ways of making a valuable contribution to our nation health care needs.