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March 7-8, 2006,
Tucson, Arizona |
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NSF BioPortal Center, University
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Information
systems play a central role in developing an effective
comprehensive approach to prevent, detect, respond to,
and manage infectious disease outbreaks of animals and
humans. Currently, a large amount of animal and public
health infectious disease data is being collected by
various laboratories, health care providers, and government
agencies at local, state, national, and international
levels. Furthermore, many agencies have developed information
access, analysis, and reporting systems of varying degrees
of sophistication. Researchers from a wide range of
backgrounds including but not limited to epidemiology,
statistics, applied mathematics, computer science and
machine learning/data mining, have also contributed
by developing technologies to facilitate real-time data
collection and sharing, and algorithms (e.g., those
tailored for syndromic surveillance) to analyze collected
data. In effect, recent years have witnessed the emergence
of infectious disease informatics (IDI), a subfield
of biomedical informatics that systematically studies
these information management and analysis issues.
The objective of IDI
research can be summarized as the development of the
science and technologies needed for collecting, sharing,
reporting, analyzing, and visualizing infectious disease
data and for providing data and decision-making support
for infectious disease prevention, detection, and management.
Hosted by the NSF BioPortal Center (for infectious disease
and bioagent information systems research), this workshop
intends to bring together IDI researchers and practitioners
to discuss selected IDI topics directly relevant to
data sharing and analysis for real-time animal and public
health surveillance.
We hope that you will
find the workshop an exciting forum for exchanging research
ideas and exploring future collaborations. We also hope
that you will enjoy the Old Pueblo in Spring and our
Southwestern hospitality. Local tours and events will
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(a) Review
and examine various real-time data sharing approaches
for animal and public health surveillance from both
technological and policy perspectives
(b) Identify
key technical challenges facing syndromic surveillance
for both animal and human diseases and discuss and
compare related systems approaches and algorithms
(c) Provide
a forum to bring together IDI researchers and practitioners
to identify future research opportunities
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The following
topics will be addressed in the workshop. (Click
on the links to view the presentations)
(a) Local,
Regional, and National Data Sharing
(b) Existing IDI data
sharing and analysis systems and research prototypes
(c) Animal and public
health syndromic surveillance systems and algorithms
Speaker invitations are still under way. Current presenters
and topics include
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Dr. Vicki Chandler,
Director, University of Arizona BIO5 Institute,
Regents' Professor, Plant Sciences, introduction
and welcome
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Dr. Jim Kvach (AFMIC,
DoD), "International Infectious Disease Information
Technology: What’s Needed and What's
Possible"
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Dr. Mark Thurmond
(UC-Davis), "Global
Toot-and-Mouth Disease Modeling and Surveillance"
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Dr. Cecil Lynch (UC-Davis),
"public health data standards and ontologies"
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Dr. Hsinchun Chen
(U. Arizona), "IDI infrastructure and knowledge
management"
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Dr. James Kaufman
(IBM Almaden Research Center), "Protecting
Public Health through advanced SpatioTemporal Epidemiological
Modeling"
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Dr. Chwan-Chuen King
(National Taiwan U.), TBA
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Dr. Colleen Burgess
(MathEcology), "Pandemic Influenza Modeling
in Structured Populations"
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Dr. Xiaohui Zhang
(Scientific Technologies Corp.), "Development
of A Bio-Intelligence System to Over-The-Counter
Pharmaceutical Sales Data To Identify Potential
Disease Outbreaks"
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Ms. Eileen Koski
(Quest Diagnostics) and Dr. Colin Goodall (AT&T):
"National Biosurveillance and Electronic Laboratory
Data and Colin Goodall (AT&T): National Biosurveillance
and Electronic Laboratory Data"
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Dan Desmond (SIMI
Group): "BioPortal - Two Years Later: The Loomis
Project - Regional Response and Preparedness"
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- Mary P. Derby, RN, MS, MPH (U. A.), "Public Health Surveillance of Foodborne Illnesses Using a Novel Dataset"
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See the Program
Page for Abstracts of each speaker's presentation.
The schedule will also be posted to this page. |
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The meeting will be held in McClelland Hall, Room
208, on the campus of The University of Arizona in
Tucson. Click
here to access campus maps.
The conference hotel is the Tucson Marriott University
Park, located at 880 East Second Street, Tucson, AZ
85719 -- about a 15-minute walk to McClelland Hall.
Call the Marriott directly at 1-520-792-4100 and mention
the "Biosurveillance Workshop" to get the
discounted conference rate of $149 per night (single
occupancy, plus tax). The hotel's website is located
at http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/TUSUP.
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- Armed Forces Medical Intelligence
Center, Department of Defense
- National Science
Foundation
- Department of Homeland
Security
- Infectious Disease
Informatics Working Committee (IDIWC)
- University of Arizona
- University of California,
Davis
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(C) 2006 Artificial Intelligence Lab, The University
of Arizona |
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