Biomedical Informatics:
Emerging Issues in Education and Research

Monday, February 9, 9 am - noon

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

: : Azalea Conference Room : : By invitation.

Javed Mostafa & Julia Kampov-Polevoi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The workshop will focus on the area of biomedical informatics education and research as a follow-up to a previous workshop held December 4 - 5, 2007. The previous workshop concentrated on emerging research areas in biomedical informatics, particularly on barriers to accessing medical records and means for leveraging information in medical records for research purposes. The workshop drew participants from academic and industrial institutions and generated several new directions requiring further attention and development. This workshop will concentrate on some of these new directions. It will investigate the development of educational and research programs, and it will focus on current capacities in biomedical informatics programs.

Workshop on Socio-Technical Research

Wednesday, February 11, 1:15-5 pm

Register for The Science of Socio-Technical Systems in iSchools. To hold your space, please register by

The $50 workshop fee is applicable for conference attendees only. Those not registered for the iConference will be charged a fee of $100.

Call for Participation

The Inaugural Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems occurred in the summer of 2008 at the University of Michigan. Now it is time for round two and you’re invited to take part.

We request your participation at a workshop that continues the mission of the Ann Arbor meeting to define, explore and organize around the science of socio-technical systems.

The goals of the workshop are:

• To articulate a set of principles to guide research in the science of socio-technical systems;
• To identify commonalities across the represented disciplines relative to the socio-technical perspective; and
• To further define the constituency of researchers who share socio-technical interests.

See a full description here.

The half-day session will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 11, from 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the close of the 2009 iSchools Conference in Chapel Hill, NC. An informal dinner will follow.

The fee to attend the workshop is being determined. To hold your space, please register by

We would love to see you there. And, please tell your colleagues to attend!

The Workshop Organizers

• Sean P. Goggins, University of Missouri
• Ingbert Floyd, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Corporation
• Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
• Ingrid Erickson, Social Science Research Council
• Laura Dabbish, Carnegie Mellon University
• Madhu Reddy, Penn State
• David Ribes, Georgetown