2007 National Library of Medicine Informatics Training conference

Program - Session Format

Trainees will present their research in three formats: (1) Plenary and (2) semi-plenary paper sessions and (3) poster sessions. Abstracts were due to the NLM no later than 5 PM EDT on April 6, 2007 (by electronic mail to Christine Ireland at irelanc@mail.nih.gov).

Program - Details

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NLM Informatics Training Conference 2007

Stanford University

June 26-27, 2007

Tuesday, June 26  
6:30-7:30 Buses loop from hotels to campus
7:00-7:45 Registration, Poster Setup, Continental Breakfast (Hewlett Teaching Center - Outside)

7:45 – 7:50           

Welcome (Dr. Russ Altman) – (Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 200)

7:50 – 8:10           

NLM Director's Remarks (Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg)

8:10 – 8:25           

Introductions of Training Directors and Trainees, Overview of Program (Dr. Valerie Florance)
8:30 – 10:10

Plenary Paper Session # 1 – Key Topics in Informatics5 papers       (Session Chair: Robert Greenes)

  • Clinical/Public Health Informatics: Understanding Workflow and Information Flow in Chronic Disease Care - Kim Unertl, Vanderbilt University
  • Bioinformatics:  Automated Function Prediction: A Comparison of SeqFEATURE to Other Methods and Applications to Structural Genomics - Shirley Wu, Stanford University
  • Translational:  A Systems-Based, Computational Approach to Link Phenotypes with Causal Genetic Events - Kartik Mani, Columbia University
  • Modeling:  Building 3D Chemical Structures from 2D Information - Ryan Benz, UC, Irvine
  • Information Retrieval//Information Studies:  Sharing Personal Health Information within Social Networks - Meredith Skeels, University of Washington

10:10 – 10:30           

Break (Posters Unattended) (Hewlett Teaching Center - Outside)

10:30 – 11:30           

Parallel Paper Sessions

Session A – Health Care Quality - 3 papers (Herrin 175)
(Session Chair: Charles Caldwell)

  1. The Impact of Pediatric Adverse Events on the Cost-Effectiveness of Oseltamivir - Tara Lavelle, Harvard University
  2. Usage and Perceptions of Athena-Hypertension DSS by Primary Care Physicians - Martha Michel, Veterans Administration
  3. Adherence to Home-Monitoring and Mortality in Post-Lung Transplantation Patients - Hojung Yoon, University of Minnesota

Session B Tools & Techniques, Part 1 – 3 papers (Packard 101)
(Session Chair: Peter Tarczy-Hornoch)

  1. Content Validity of Obtrusiveness Model of Home Telehealth Technologies - Brian Hensel, University of Missouri-Columbia
  2. Evaluation of VA/KP Subset of SNOMED for E-Prescription Clinical Decision Support – Surendranath Mantena, Regenstrief Institute
  3. Cryptographic Accuracy Annotations for Electronically Exchanged Personal Health Information - David Haight, University of Wisconsin

Session C – Translational Informatics – 3 papers (Hewlett 200)
(Session Chair: Joyce Mitchell)

  • The Biofluidome: Determination and Quantification of Functional Peripheral Proxies - Gil Alterovitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Genome-Wide Linkage Analyses for Asthma Predisposition Loci in Extended Pedigrees - Craig Teerlink, University of Utah
  • Detecting Natural Selection Across Populations - Eleanne Solorzano, Yale University
11:30 – 1:00            Lunch & Informal Networking (Hewlett Teaching Center - Outside)

1:00 – 2:00           

  • Poster Session - Attended
  • Executive Session of Training Directors (School of Education, Room 206)
2:00-3:40

Plenary Paper Session – Health Care Informatics – 5 papers (Hewlett Room 200)      (Session Chair: William Tierney)

  • The Cost of Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care – Matthew Burton, Regenstrief Institute
  • Content-Based Image Retrieval of Malignant Brain Tumors – Shishir Dube, University of California, Los Angeles
  • The Effects of Hands Free Communication Devices:  Communication Changes Among Nurses, Nurse Managers, and IT Staff - Joshua Richardson, Oregon Health & Science University
  • The Available Health Record is Often Deficient - But Can We Work with What We Have? – Andrew Brunskill, Veterans Administration
  • Improving Diabetes Population Management Efficiency with an Informatics Solution – Adrian Zai, Massachusetts General Hospital

3:40 – 4:00           

Break (Posters Unattended)

4:00 – 5:30           

Stanford Showcase: Clark Center

6:00 – 9:00           

Picnic @ New Guinea Garden - Will be outside – Please bring a sweater!
Wednesday, June 27  
7:00 – 7:50     Training Directors’ Breakfast Session (Sheraton Hotel)
7:00 – 8:00     Continental Breakfast (Hewlett Teaching Center - Outside)

8:00 – 9:20            

Plenary Paper Session Bioinformatics (4 papers) (Hewlett Room 200) (Session Chair: Russ Altman)

  • Counterion Localization Caused by DNA Supercoiling Affects Type II Topoisomerase Recognition - Graham Randall, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Statistical Analysis of the Genomic Distribution and Correlation of Regulatory Elements in the ENCODE Regions – Zhengdong Zhang, Yale University
  • Effects of Aging on Mouse Transcriptional Networks – Lucinda Southworth, Stanford University
  • Peptide Identification in Whole-Sample Mass Spectrometry Proteomics - Richard Pelikan, University of Pittsburgh

9:20 – 10:20               

Parallel Paper Sessions

Session D – Tools & Techniques, Part 2 - 3 papers ( Packard 101)       (Session Chair: G. Anthony Gorry)

  1. Formal Usability Testing Finds New Problems for Novice Users of Pediatric Portals – Maria Britto, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  2. A Combined Qualitative Method for Testing an Interactive Risk Communication Tool – Jessica Ancker, Columbia University
  3. RF++: Robust Random Forest for Clustered Data Classification - Yuliya Karpievitch, Medical University of South Carolina

Session E – Consumer/Public Health Informatics - 3 papers (Herrin 175)      (Session Chair: Cynthia Gadd)

  1. Forecasting Emergency Department Crowding by Discrete Event Simulation - Nathan Hoot, Vanderbilt University
  2. Towards Electronic Health Information Exchanges between Clinical Care and Public Health - Patricia Swartz, Johns Hopkins University
  3. Factual Versus Narrative Messaging:  Different Modalities and Personal Involvement.  Looking for the Best Strategy of Persuasion.  The Weight Loss and College Drinking Examples - Julia Braverman, Boston University

Session F – Knowledge Discovery & Summarization – 3 papers (Hewlett 200)      (Session Chair: Alex Bui)

  • Identification and Extraction of Functional Protein Point Mutation Effects in Biomedical Literature - Lawrence Lee, University of California, San Francisco
  • Identifying Anatomical Phrases in Clinical Reports using Shallow Semantic Parsing Methods - Vijay Bashyam, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Automatic Summarization of Mouse Gene Information by Clustering and Sentence Extraction from MEDLINE Abstracts - Jianji Yang, Oregon Health & Science University

10:20 – 10:40           

Break (Posters Unattended)

10:40 – 12:20           

Plenary Paper Session: Modeling – 5 papers (Hewlett 200) (Session Chair: George Phillips)

  1. Using Mathematical Models to Identify Novel JNK Substrates - Thomas Whisenant, UC, Irvine
  2. A Bayesian Model for Modeling Overlapping Gene Expression Modules using Latent Variables - Thomas Asbury, Medical University of South Carolina
  3. Closing the Gap in Homology Modeling and its Application to Drug Development - Jeff Reneker, University of Missouri-Columbia
  4. Statistical Relational Learning for Biomedical Domains - Jesse Davis, University of Wisconsin
  5. Use of Classification Models Based on Usage Data for the Selection of Infobutton Resources – Guilherme Del Fiol, University of Utah           

12:20 – 1:20           

  • Lunch & Informal Networking
  • Grants Administration Workshop (School of Education, Room 314)

1:00 – 1:20           

Poster Session – Attended (Hewlett Teaching Center – Outside)
1:20 – 3:00    

Plenary Paper Session: Information Retrieval /Information Studies – 5 papers (Hewlett 200)
(Session Chair: William Hersh)

  • Contextual Analysis of Variation and Quality in Human-Curated Gene Ontology Annotations - W. John MacMullen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Adoption of Innovation in Practice: An In-Depth Study of Heparin Dosing by Residents – Prudence Dalrymple, Johns Hopkins University
  • A Study of Experimental Information Management in Biomedical Research – Nicholas Anderson, University of Washington
  • Sequential Search Result Refinement of the Medical Literature – Len Tanaka, University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston
  • Sharing Detailed Research Data is Associated with Increased Citation Rate - Heather Piwowar, University of Pittsburgh

3:00 – 3:30           

Closing Session (Russ Altman)