Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS)
Agenda at-a-Glance
Updated March 2, 2009. Schedule is subject to change
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C-SHALS 2009 Program book is available (.pdf) |
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| Time | Activity | Topic & Presenters |
| 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 | |
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| 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 | Dr. Jans Aasman CE0, Franz Inc. |
| 12:10 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 Cool URIs for Molecules (.pdf) - Ranga Chandra Gudivada Biomedical Informatics Scientist Eli Lilly and Company Building a Pharmaceutical Competitive Landscape using Semantic Technologies (.pdf) - Jaime Melendez Merck and Co., Inc. Semantic Web Technologies within Research and Development (.pdf) - Therese Vachon Novartis Pharma AG NIBR/NITAS Head of Text Mining Services Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Drug Discovery with Semantic Technologies (.pdf) |
| 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 Cancer Biomarker Research - Integrating sensitive, heterogeneous, and labile, experimental data sources with semantic core models that embed user permissions (.pdf) - Thomas N. Plasterer, PhD Director, Project Planning & Data Interpretation BG Medicine Enabling Discovery in High-Risk Plaque using Semantic Web Approaches (.pdf) - Antony J. Williams ChemZoo Inc. Crowdsourcing, Collaborations and Text-Mining in a World of Open Chemistry (.pdf) |
| 5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. | Keynote 2 | John Reynders, Johnson & Johnson Integrative Informatics: Discovery, Translational Sciences, and Epidemiology (.pdf) |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Discussion Forum & Daily Closing Remarks | |
| 6:00 p.m - 7:30 p.m. | Poster Reception | |
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| 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. What Must Semantics Do Now To Advance Drug Discovery? (.pdf) |
| 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 Automated Ontology Engineering (.pdf) - Larisa Soldatova University of Wales The Formal Description of Drug Screening and Design Investigations (.pdf) - Nigam Shah Stanford University Ontology Services for Semantic Application in Health and Life Sciences (.pdf) |
| 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 Practical Knowledge Engineering for Pharmaceutical R&D (.pdf) - 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 | |
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