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Biomedical Health Informatics - University of Minnesota

Institute for Health Informatics Seminar Series

The IHI Seminar Series features speakers on Thursday afternoons from 3:30-4:30pm in 555 Diehl Hall. Light refreshments are served. Seminars are designed to enable prominent members of the campus, state, national, and international health informatics communities to share their expertise, while fostering dynamic interaction and dialogue exchange among those attending. Dr. Genevieve Melton-Meaux organizes and leads the seminat series.

Seminar Archives:

Spring 2012 Seminars:

January 19
Speaker:

Saif Khairat, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Institute for Health Inforamtics, University of Minnesota

January 26
Speakers:

Resty Namata, PhD student

Lee Pyles,MD, MHI student
Associate Professor
Divison of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Minnesota

February 2
Speakers:

Aundrea Price, MBA, MHI student
Riea Moon, MS, PhD candidate

February 9
Speakers:

Piper Svensson, PhD candidate
Rui Zhang, PhD student

February 16
Speakers:

Paul Kleeberg, MD
Clinical Director, Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT

Sue Severson
Director, Health Inforamtion Technology, Stratus Health
Program Director, Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT

"EHR Use in Minnesota and the Implications of the EHR Incentive Program"

February 23
Speaker:

Kevin Larsen, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Information Officer, Associate Medical Director Hennepin County Medical Center

March 1
Speaker:

Brian Westrich, PhD
President
McWest Corporation

"A Systems Approach to Obesity Reduction"

March 8
Speaker:

Richard Paskach
Director, Research Informatics and IS
HealthPartners Research Foundation

March 15
Speaker:

SPRING BREAK
No Seminar

March 22
Speaker:

Oladimeji Farri, M.B.B.S., PhD candidate
Tamara Schmidt-Hegge, MS student and
Karen Monsen, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Affiliate Faculty, IHI

Seminars speakers will be presenting and demonstrating NVivo, the Omaha System, and OWL Protégé, three tools that they have used in their research.

March 29
Speaker:

Kenneth Beckman, PhD
Director
BioMedical Genomics Center, University of Minnesota

April 5
Speaker:

Christopher Chute, MD, DrPH
Adjunct Professor, Lab Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota
Professor, Medical Informatics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University

April 12
Speaker:

Zoi Hills
Program Manager, (Great Plains Telehealth Resource and Assistance Center (GPTRAC)

April 19
Speaker:

Eneida Mendonça, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

April 26
Speaker:

IHI Distinguished Lectureship Series

Latanya Sweeney, PhD
Director and Founder
Data Privacy Lab, Harvard University

Time: 4:00-5:00
Location: University Hall, McNamara Alumni Center

May 3
Speaker:

End of Semester Event