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Registration is still open! Register now while there is still space.
C-SHALS 2009, Cambridge/Boston, USA, February 25-27
Call for Poster Abstracts; Sponsor & Exhibitor Opportunities;
Registration Now Open!
www.iscb.org/cshals2009/
ISCB’s Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences is this
coming week. There's still time to register. This conference is a
must-attend for anyone wishing to understand which areas of advanced
intelligent information technologies can have the greatest impact in
Pharmaceutical R&D and improved healthcare. The inaugural 2008
conference was well received by participants from pharma and academia
alike, and 2009 promises to deliver even more of the latest
technologies that researchers can implement in their own labs
immediately. Visit the conference website to view the program and
register for the conference.
Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS)
Cambridge/Boston, MA February 25-27, 2009
www.iscb.org/cshals2009/
Register Now for C-SHALS 2009!
http://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/cshals2009/
With the success of the first C-SHALS Conference in 2008, the
International Society for Computational Biology is happy to present C-
SHALS 2009. This conference focuses on the continued evolution of
pharmaceutical applications using Semantic Technologies. We have
presentations and discussions of practical semantics-based approaches
to Drug R&D and Healthcare, organized along specific topics and
moderated to induce interactive discussions around key questions. This
conference is valuable to anyone wishing to understand which areas of
advanced in intelligent information technologies can have the greatest
impact in Pharmaceutical R&D and improved Healthcare.
C-SHALS Keynotes Announced
The conference organizers are pleased to announce keynote presenters
for C-SHALS 2009:
Tim Berners-Lee
Director
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Clark Golestani
Vice President, Information Technology
Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc.
John Reynders
Vice-President and Chief Information Officer
Life Sciences Division, Johnson & Johnson
Introducing the W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences
Interest Group Tutorial
Poster submission site is closed but late posters may still be
considered, space permitting, and have them contact ste...@iscb.org.
Read what C-SHALS 2008 attendees had to say
C-SHALS themes include:
* Clinical Information Management
* Clinical Decision Support
* Discovery Information Integration
* Translational Medicine / Safety
* Integrated Healthcare and Semantics in Electronic Health Records
* Search and Document Management
* Text Mining/ Information Extraction
* Pharmacovigilance
Conference participants discuss and explore the following technology
issues:
* How are Semantic Web standards being best used?
* What technologies exist for automated reasoning and search agent?
* How well do semantic tools enable the visualization and
utilization of information and knowledge?
A special half day "W3C Health Care and Life Science" tutorial will be
held Wednesday, February 25 from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Register Now for C-SHALS 2009!
Agenda-at-a-glance:
http://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/cshals2009/at-a-glance.php
As of February 10, 2009. Schedule is subject to change.
Wednesday, February 25
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Registration
1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. W3C HCLSIG Tutorial
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. W3C HCLSIG Tutorial continues
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Registration
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Poster & Exhibitor Reception
Thursday, February 26
7:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Registration
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast (continental)
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Welcome & Opening Eric Neumann, Conference
Chair, Clinical Semantics Group
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Keynote 1 Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m - Noon
Moderated Forum 1: BioMedicine
- Tim Clark, Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical
School,Director of Informatics,
MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease Core Member,
Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing
- Parsa Mirhaji, MD, Director, The Center for Biosecurity and Public
Health Informatics Research, The School of Health Information Sciences
The University of Texas Health
Science Center
Noon - 12:10 p.m. Tech Talk 1 Dr. Jans Aasman, CE0, Franz Inc.
12:10 p.m. - 12:20 p.m. Tech Talk 2
12:20 p.m.- 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Moderated Forum 2:
Semantic Web in Pharma
- Dr. Philip Ashworth, Principal Research Scientist,
UCB Pharma
- Ranga Chandra Gudivada, Biomedical Informatics Scientist, Eli
Lilly and Company
- Jaime Melendez, Merck and Co., Inc.
- Therese Vachon, Novartis Pharma AG, NIBR/NITAS, Head of Text
Mining Services
3:00 p.m - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Moderated Forum 3:
Biomarkers & Compounds
- Jonas S. Almeida, Abell-Hanger Distinguished Professor,
University of Texas
- Thomas N. Plasterer, PhD, Director, Project Planning & Data
Interpretation, BG Medicine
- Antony J. Williams, ChemZoo Inc.
5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Keynote 2 John Reynders, Johnson & Johnson
5:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Discussion Forum & Daily Closing Remarks
6:00 p.m - 7:30 p.m. Poster & Exhibitor Reception
Friday, February 27
7:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Registration
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast (continental)
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Review - Previous Day
8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Keynote 3 Clark Golestani, Merck and Co.,
Inc.
9:30 a.m - 10:00 a.m. Discussion Forum
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m - Noon Moderated Forum 4:
Ontologies
- Marco F. Ramoni, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard
Medical School
- Larisa Soldatova, University of Wales
- Nigam Shah, Stanford University
Noon - 12:25 p.m. Advanced Tech Talk Mark Wilkinson
12:25 p.m.- 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Moderated Forum 5:
Knowledge Bases
- Ted Slater, Pfizer
- Bruce Aronow, Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics;, Scientific
Director, Center for Computational Medicine, Biomedical Informatics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of
Cincinnati
- Will Loging, Director, Electronic Biology, Boehringer Ingelheim
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Closing Summary Discussion
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Conference Closing Remarks & Future Actions
3:45 p.m. Conference Ends
