Biomedical Informatics Grand Rounds

Biomedical Informatics Grand Rounds (BIGR) is held Mondays from 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon at Children's Hospital Boston.

The series is hosted by the Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) and the Decision Systems Group (DSG) at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Each conference is approved for one credit of AMA Category 1 Continuing Medical Education; be sure to sign the attendance sheet to claim this credit. Attendance is open to the entire Boston informatics community.

Please contact bigr@chip.org if you have any questions or would like to sign-up for a presentation date.

Last Year's Schedule

09/22/03	Amy Keating, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biology. Deciphering interactions among the human bZIP transcription factors: Experimental measurements and computational predictions	Farley 133
10/06/03	NO GRAND ROUNDS
10/20/03	Josh LaBaer, MD, PhD, Director, Harvard Institute of Proteomics. Harnessing the Human Proteome	Byers B, Enders Building
10/27/03	Aneel Advani, MD, MPH, Fellow, Medical Informatics at Stanford University. Scaling the Quality Chasm: Intelligent Systems and Evidence-based Medical Quality Assessment	Byers B, Enders Building
11/03/03	Bruce Jenkins, MD, Director, Neurochemical Imaging. Imaging Dopamine Receptor Function using MRI	Enders Auditorium
11/17/03	John Halamka, MD, Chief Information Officer, CareGroup. Associate Dean for Educational Technologies, Harvard Medical School. Chief Information Officer, Harvard Clinical Research Institute. Connecting Patients, Providers, and Payers	Byers B, Enders Building
12/01/03	Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, Asisstant Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Sr. Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Healthvision. Clinical Computing Strategies for Improved Safety and Quality of Care	Enders Auditorium
12/15/03	Shamil Sunyaev, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of Genetics. Computational Analysis of Population Genetic Variation and Genome Divergence	Byers B, Enders Building
12/29/03	NO GRAND ROUNDS
01/12/04	David Bates, MD, MSc Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care	Enders Auditorium
01/26/04	Kenneth Fasman, PhD, Vice President R&D Information and Knowledge Management, AstraZeneca PLC. Meeting the Challenges of Pharmaceutical R&D with Informatics and Knowledge Management	Farley 133
02/09/04	Steven Wong, PhD, Director, Center for Bioinformatics, Havard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair , Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Computational Systems Bioinformatics in Neuroscience	Enders Auditorium
02/23/04	Temple Smith, PhD, Professor, Biomedical, Engineering, Boston University. Director, Biomolecular Engineering Research Center . Protein Domains and Medical Relevance	Enders Auditorium
03/08/04	CANCELLED!! To be postponed to a later date Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School. Faculty, Children's Hospital Informatics Program. Research Director, Center for Biopreparedness at Children's Hospital Boston. Real time fully automated Biosurveillance	Enders Auditorium
03/22/04	Donald E. Ingber, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School. Departments of Pathology and Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston. Cellular Information Processing	Enders Auditorium
04/05/04	David Altschuler, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Medicine, MGH. Human Genome Variation and the Genetics of Common Disease	Enders Auditorium
04/19/04	NO GRAND ROUNDS
05/03/04	Milton Weinstein, PhD, Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Health Policy and Management, Departments of Health Policy and Management and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health. Using Decision Analysis in Technology Assessment: Targeted Therapies in HIV and Breast Cancer	Enders Auditorium
05/10/04	Nir Friedman, School of Computer Science & Engineering, Hebrew University, Jerusalem The Cancer Module Map: Combinatorial Organization of Cancer Revealed by the Unification of Genomic Data	Enders Auditorium
05/17/04	Stephen Porter, MD, MPH, Faculty, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine. Better and Safer Health Care through Patient-centered Information Management	Farley 133
06/07/04	Christopher Burge, PhD Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Biology. Enhancers and Silencers of Splicing in Human Exons	Enders Auditorium
06/21/04	Josh LaBaer, MD, PhD , Director, Harvard Institute of Proteomics. Harnessing the Human Proteome	Byers A&B, Enders Building