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.

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)

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