Keith Eric Grant, John Balletto, Donelda Gowan-Moody, Dale Healey, Diana Kincaid, Whitney Lowe, and Ravensara S. Travillian. "Steps Toward Massage Therapy Guidelines: A First Report to the Profession," accepted for publication in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.

The acknowledgments of this paper mention, "We also appreciate the University of Washington informatics students who took the time to participate in part of our March 2007 meeting and to provide us with their insights."  Alan Au, Richard Boyce, Andrea Civan, Jon DeShazo, Sally Lee, Hao Li, Meredith Skeels, Anna Stolyar, James Tufano, and Wayne Warren, as well as Sherri Fuller, Bryant Karras, Bill Lober, David Masuda, and Fred Wolf all contributed significantly to the success of this meeting and the resulting work.  The Best Practices Committee of the Massage Therapy Foundation is grateful for their efforts.

Brent Louie, who defended his Ph.D. dissertation on May 14th, is now employed at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center here in Seattle.  He will be working in a broad range of fields from proteomics to clinical informatics.

Meredith Skeels has been accepted to AMIA’s doctoral consortium based on her paper titled, “Support for Personal Health Information Sharing and Collaboration.”

Unruh, Kenton T. & Wanda Pratt.  "The Invisible Work of Being a Patient and Implications for Health Care:  "[the doctor is] my business partner in the most important business in my life, staying alive," to be presented & published in the proceedings of the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC 2008) in Copenhagen Denmark.

Beck, D.A.C., Jonsson, A.L., Schaeffer, D., Scott, K.A., Day, R., Toofanny, R.D., Alonso, D.O.V., and V. Daggett. Dynameomics: Mass annotation of protein dynamics and unfolding in water by high-throughput atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, Protein Engineering Design and Selection, 21, 353-368, 2008.

Simms, A.M, Toofanny, R.D., Kehl, C., Benson, N.C. and V. Daggett.  Dynameomics: Design of a computational lab workflow and scientific data repository for protein simulations, Protein Engineering Design and Selection, 21, 369-377, 2008.

Kehl, C.E., Simms, A.M., Toofanny, R.D. and V. Daggett.  Dynameomics: A multi-dimensional analysis-optimized database for dynamic protein data, Protein Engineering Design and Selection, 21, 379-386, 2008.

Anderson, P.C. and V. Daggett. Molecular Basis for the Structural Instability of Human DJ-1 Induced by the L166P Mutation Associated with Parkinson's Disease, Biochemistry, in press, 2008.

Please join BHI in congratulating Richard Boyce on his successful completion of his Ph.D. Final Exam (a.k.a. "defense").  Richard did a stellar job, and we are all very proud of him.  He has been hired as a Postdoctoral Associate in the School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics, at the University of Pittsburgh.  His research focus will be primarily in knowledge representation and clinical decision support.