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.

Imre Solti was notified that his submission for poster presentation was accepted at the Radiological Society of North America 94th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 30-December 5, 2008, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois.  Title: “Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Acute Lung Injury Classification: Preliminary Study.”  Authors: Imre Solti, MD, PhD, Colin R. Cooke, MD, MSc.

Several UW Center for Public Health Informatics faculty and staff recently published a paper re: our open source EpiVue system (citation below) which currently holds the #1 spot for UW Biomed Central publications and has received the "highly accessed" designation.  Title:   “Integrating open-source technologies to build low-cost information systems for improved access to public health data Qian Yi, Richard E Hoskins, Elizabeth A Hillringhouse, Svend S Sorensen, Mark W Oberle, Sherrilynne S Fuller and James C Wallace International Journal of Health Geographics 2008, 7:29 (09 Jun 2008)

Health Geographics.com link                       BioMed Central.com link

Title:  “Incorporating collaboratory concepts into informatics in support of translational interdisciplinary biomedical research”

Author list: E. Sally Lee, David W. McDonald, Nicholas Anderson, and Peter Tarczy-Hornoch

Journal: International Journal of Medical Informatics (In press)

Nick Anderson has been invited to participate in the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008, July 27-29 at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond.  This is the 9th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.  Each year, more than 400 thought leaders from academia, government, and Microsoft join together to explore the latest research results, collectively discuss the challenges being faced by the community, search for the best approaches to meeting those challenges, and identify new research opportunities.  The participants’ range of interests and the breadth of the technical areas covered in the program ensure a unique experience and provide a venue for meeting with colleagues and friends across the full range of the computing disciplines.  This year, the Summit will host creative, open discourse focused on research topics including human-computer interaction, robotics, gaming, bioinformatics, eScience, digital inclusion, computing contributions to scientific understanding and discovery, multi-core processing/many-core computing, mobility, and technologies for education.