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Robert H. Brook to
Keynote AMIA 2006 Annual Symposium
Other Topics: Global
BioInformatics Market to hit $3B by 2010,
Electronic Patient Data Systems
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
June 27, 2006
Bethesda, MD, -- The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
today announced that Robert H. Brook will provide the keynote
address during the Opening Session of the AMIA 2006 Annual
Symposium on Sunday, November 12, 2006 beginning at 1:00 pm at
the Hilton Washington and Towers in Washington, DC. |
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Robert H. Brook,
MD, ScD is the Vice President and Director, RAND Health. He is
also Professor of Medicine and Health Services, at the
University of California, Los Angeles and directs the Robert
Wood Johnson/UCLA Clinical Scholars Program. Dr. Brook is an
internationally known expert on quality assessment and
assurance, the development and use of health-status measurements
in health policy, the efficiency and effectiveness of medical
care, and variation in the use of medical services across
geographic areas. He has published nearly 300 peer-reviewed
articles and conducted pioneering work in the field of quality
measurement. He operationalized the concept of appropriateness
by establishing the scientific basis for determining whether
various medical and surgical procedures were being used
appropriately and more than other individuals is responsible for
focusing policymakers' attention on quality-of-care issues and
their implications for the nation's health. Most of the
quality-of-care and health status measures being used today
throughout the developed world were developed by Dr. Brook or by
research teams that he led.
Dr. Brook has received numerous professional honors, including
the Peter Reizenstein Prize, 2000, for "Defining and Measuring
Quality of Care: A Perspective from US Researchers," the
National Committee for Quality Assurance Health Quality Award
for pursuit of health care quality at all levels of the health
system, Research!America's 2000 Advocacy Award for Sustained
Leadership at the National Level, the Robert J. Glaser Award of
the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Richard and Hinda
Rosenthal Foundation Award of the American College of
Physicians, and the Distinguished Health Services Research Award
of the Association of Health Services Research. His affiliations
include the Institute of Medicine, the American Association of
Physicians, the Western Association of Physicians, and the
American Society for Clinical Investigation.
The four-day event, which runs November 11-15, will host more
than 100 educational sessions, expert panels, discussions with
leading policy makers, demonstrations of some of the most
advanced informatics systems in the world, and hundreds of
posters illustrating leading-edge applications, research, and
development.
Other activities at the AMIA 2006 Annual Symposium include:
- 26 tutorials taught by a
faculty comprised of AMIA's widely recognized
thought leaders in the field, aligned in four major areas:
primers in
informatics, the electronic health record, methods in
informatics, and
selected topics;
- Special panels by leading
experts including "Biosurveillance Systems and
Situational Awareness in Public Health: How Far Should We Go
to Protect
the Public from Bioterrorism?," "Electronic Health Records:
High Quality
Electronic Data for Higher Quality Clinical Research," "Grand
Challenges
in Biomedical Informatics Research" and "Seeing Biomedicine:
New
Opportunities and Research Challenges at the Intersection of
Biomedical
Imaging and Informatics"
- Innovation and Information
Center featuring cutting-edge health
information technology innovators and resources
- One full day pre-conference
Nursing Informatics Symposium
- Doctoral Consortium on
Organizational Issues in Medical Informatics
Physician and nursing continuing education credits will be
offered for
this meeting.
Cost & Registration
The cost for the five-day conference is $795.00 with a $300
early registration discount available to AMIA members through
August 7. There are also special rates for full-time students of
informatics. Visit AMIA's Annual Symposium Web site for
registration and complete session details at http://www.amia.org/meetings/f06/
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is an
organization of leaders shaping the future of health information
technology in the United States and abroad. AMIA is dedicated to
the development and application of medical informatics in
support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care
administration. Complete information about AMIA is available at:
http://www.amia.org.
The AMIA Annual Symposium is recognized internationally as the
key venue for the exchange of ideas concerning biomedical and
health informatics. It is the place to hear about new scientific
work, to learn about evolving standards and policies for
management of biomedical information, and to understand how
cutting-edge technology can be developed and deployed in the
health care enterprise, the biomedical sciences, and within
health professions.
CONTACT: Tia Abner of the American Medical Informatics
Association, +1-301-657-1291, ext. 105, tia@amia.org |
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