BETHESDA, Md., June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.
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
American Medical Informatics Association
CONTACT: Tia Abner of the American Medical Informatics Association,+1-301-657-1291, ext. 105, tia@amia.org
Web site: http://www.amia.org//
