Section Events
Networking opportunities through the Medical Section program events will ensure that you are never isolated from your colleagues and can share information and expertise.
Current Conference
2009
Medical Section Annual meeting and Program
Translational Medicine Meets the Semantic Web
Monday, June 14, 2009 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Sponsored by Matthews Medical Books
The Medical Section will hold a brief business meeting after a talk by Olivier Bodenreider M.D. Ph.D. Dr. Bodenreider is a Staff Scientist in the Cognitive Science Branch of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. His research interests include terminology, knowledge representation and ontology in the biomedical domain, both from a theoretical perspective and in their application to natural language understanding, reasoning, information visualization and integration. Dr. Bodenreider is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He received a M.D. degree from the University of Strasbourg, France in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the University of Nancy, France in 1993. Before joining NLM in 1996, he was an assistant professor for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Nancy, France, Medical School.
Dr. Bodenreider’s presentation will explore the development of Translational Medicine, knowledge exchange between bench to bedside, and the Semantic Web, a meaning-based approach to World Wide Web technology, allowing better access to pertinent information across biomedical domains. Current and emerging issues and the role of information specialists will be discussed.
Past Conferences
2008
Medical Section Program and Business Meeting Ticket # 785
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:00AM - 12:30PM
Sponsored by JAMA & Archives
Journals
2007
Medical Section Program and Business Meeting
First, Do No Harm - Information, Teamwork and Patient Safety
Speaker: Michael Leonard, MD, Kaiser Permanente
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2006
Medical Section Program and Business Meeting
Basic Sciences Digital Library: A Task Centered Resource For The Basic Biomedical Sciences Researcher
Speaker: Brian Brown, Communications Librarian, Welch Medical Library at The Johns Hopkins University.
2005
Medical Section Reception and Business Meeting
Online information resources for evidence-based clinical care: their evolution and the special role of librarians in their development and dissemination
Speaker: Brian Haynes, MD, PhD, Prof. & Chair, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics & Med., McMaster University.
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Rev. April 2009