Clinical Research Informatics (CRI)

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The Clinical Research Informatics (CRI) track focuses on the landscape, opportunities, and challenges facing the clinical research informatics professionals. thought leaders from different sectors of the CRI community will present their perspectives, share experience and practices, and engage in direct discussion with the audience. The track hopes to serve as a forum to stimulate dialog and interaction among translational biomedical research informatics professionals and contribute to the elevation of Clinical Research Informatics as a disciplined profession.

Learning Objectives:

• Obtain the broad view of the Clinical Research Informatics landscape.
  
• Learn about major events and initiatives occurring at the government, national, and industry sectors that may impact the clinical research informatics community.
  
• Increase awareness of collaboration opportunities and bring new knowledge and innovative ideas back to the institution.
  

Track Keynote Presentation: The Landscape, Challenges, and Opportunities of Clinical Research Informatics
Thursday, May 29, 2008, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Greg Simon
FasterCures, Washington, DC

Greg Simon joined as President of FasterCures in July 2003. FasterCures is an “action tank” committed to saving lives by saving time. The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization examines the medical research and development process to discover and promote ways to accelerate the discovery, development, and deployment of new medical treatment for today’s deadly diseases.

Greg Simon was the Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore from 1993 to 1997, specifi cally with regard to economic, science, and technology issues. He oversaw a number of initiatives, including the programs of the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Human Genome Project, and the development of the regulatory framework for biotechnology products. He played a leading role in a variety of White House policies and programs including passage of the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996; encouraging the development of a V-chip-compatible system of television ratings; the space program, particularly the building of the International Space Station; and FDA reform.

(S06) Panel: Current Research Unmet Needs & Challenges in Clinical Research Informatics
Thursday, May 29, 2008, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Milton Corn
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

Milton Corn is the Director of Extramural Programs at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the division that is responsible for the Library’s grant programs. In this panel he will discuss user needs and the impact on the clinical research informatics landscape.

Clement J. McDonald
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

Clem McDonald is the Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC), the research and development division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Seeking to improve access to high quality biomedical information for individuals around the world, the Lister Hill Center conducts and supports research and development in the dissemination of high quality imagery, medical language processing, high-speed access to biomedical information, intelligent database systems development, multimedia visualization, knowledge management, data mining, and machine-assisted indexing.


(S10) Panel: CTSA and its Impacts on the Clinical Research Informatics Community
Friday, May 30, 2008, 8:30 am - 10:00 am

Panel to include:
Elaine Collier
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), Washington, DC
William Hersh
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Paul Harris
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Robert P. DiLaura
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

The goal of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is to accelerate the translation of biomedical research into clinical care and community dissemination. There is recognition by NIH and others that biomedical informatics is a necessary and fundamental component for advancing clinical and translational research. Speakers on this panel will address the impact of the CTSA on the clinical research informatics community. Panelists will look at a range of issues from a variety of viewpoints including the perspectives of the funding institution, the multi-site collaborator, the informatics and information technology infrastructure, and the integration of clinical informatics, clinical research informatics, and bioinformatics.


(S14) Panel: Alternative Models of Collaborative Development/Deployment of CRI Tools: Top-down vs. Bottom Up
Friday, May 30, 2008, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Panel to include:
Shawn N. Murphy
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Paul Harris
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
John Speakman
National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD

Collaborative software development is a powerful paradigm for leveraging people, skills, and expertise beyond a single institution’s resources and limitations. Different collaborative projects have adopted different collaborative models, based on project scope, size, and resources. This panel will focus on collaborative tools developed and deployed in the clinical research informatics enterprise with a specifi c focus on the three efforts: i2b2, REDCap, and caBIG.


(S18) Panel: Clinical Research Informatics: Sharing Best Practices and Experiences
Friday, May 30, 2008, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Panel to include:
Anthony Leiro
Duke University, Durham, NC
Philip Payne
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Dale Hunscher
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Aaron Kamauu
RemedyMD, Sandy, UT

This panel of presentations is designed to showcase some of the best current practices in clinical research informatics. Presentations will focus on technical interoperability between two academic institutions exploring whether existing informatics tools and ontologies can facilitate interoperability between geographically distributed multi-site research projects with complementary goals and analytical requirements; employing workfl ow analysis methods to improve the design and performance of clinical and translational research information systems; and the application of knowledge management in building translational research informatics tools.


(S22) Panel: Clinical Research Informatics: Track Analysis and Outcomes
Saturday, May 31, 2008, 8:30 am - 10:00 am

Panel to include:
Michael Kahn
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
Michael Lin
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

What are the key issues in clinical research informatics that have been discussed at the 2008 AMIA Spring Congress? Scientific Program Committee Track Chairs Michael Kahn and Michael Lin will present a synthesis of the lessons from the CRI track and engage the audience in a discussion pertaining to the next steps and recommendations to AMIA.


Posters
A complete list of posters by track is available here.
2008 AMIA Spring Congress posters will provide an ideal opportunity for conference attendees to learn about preliminary research results or results of small scale studies, illustrating and discussing innovative systems and services, describing experimental and in-practice projects and programs, reporting experiences with educational programs, and other dimensions of medical informatics.