National Conference on Statistical, Computational and Visualization Methods in Medical Informatics

Event Dates

Jun 03, 2011 - Jun 04, 2011

Location

Clarke University, Dubuque, IA

Submission Deadline

Apr 10, 2011

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS

Statistical, Computational and Visualization Methods in

Medical Informatics Conference

June 3-4, 2011, Clarke University, Dubuque, Iowa

http://www.clarke.edu/scvmmi

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This two-day national medical informatics conference will explore

recent advances to understand, improve and analyze the impact of

medical data analysis on treating and better understanding human

diseases. Health care professionals, clinical researchers, and

scientists will discuss and present new developments in determining

efficient models to explore treatments and disease patterns related

to major epidemic diseases such as cancer and HIV.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Michael Coen, University of Wisconsin

Dr. Dianne Cook, Iowa State University

Dr. Frank Graziano, University of Wisconsin & Joint Clinical Research

Center, Kampala, Uganda.

Dr. Mary Sara McPeek, University of Chicago

Dr. Robert Shafer , Stanford University

Dr. George Weiner, The University of Iowa

ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit abstracts that demonstrate original

unpublished research in all areas of biomedical informatics. Surveys of important recent results and directions are also welcome. Authors of accepted abstracts may submit a paper. The three top papers will be announced at the conference, and winning authors will be reimbursed for publication costs if the paper is published before June 4, 2012 in a top tier journal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Genetic Data Analysis

* Genome-Phenome Analysis

* Gene expression changes in adaptive immune response

* Comparative approaches to immunology

* Immunogenomics

Software Developments in Medical Informatics

* Machine learning for colossal datasets

* Visualization and graphical methods for data mining and model

diagnostics

* Decision support systems in health and medical care

* Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis

* Immunoinformatics Databases, Knowledge Bases, Ontologies

Statistical and Computational Methods in Medical Informatics

* Statistical and computational modeling in Biomedical

Intelligence, Immune Systems, Clinical Datasets, and Electronic

Health Record

* Drug and vaccine design including biomarker discovery and epitope

analysis and prediction

* Multi-agent based modeling of immune response

HOW TO SUBMIT

Abstract submissions must be made electronically to scvmmi@clarke.edu.

Please include the names and affiliations of all authors, the title of the work, preferred presentation mode (talk/poster), and the

corresponding author information (phone number, current position, and

preferred e-mail address for notification). Submission implies the

willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: April 10, 2011

Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2011

Full paper contest submission deadline: May 20, 2011

(Paper writers must submit the paper abstract by April 10th.)

Registration Deadline: May 20, 2011

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Karin Dorman, Iowa State University

Roberta Lavin, Clarke University

Judy Munshower, Clarke University

George Towfic, Clarke University

Samira Kettoola Towfic, Clarke University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Doina Caragea, Kansas State University

Garrett Dancik, University of Colorado

Brooke Fridley, Mayo Clinic

Heike Hofmann, Iowa State University

Peng Liu, Iowa State University

Volodymyr Melnykov, North Dakota State University

Sonya Snedecor, Pharmerit International

Also, please circulate this to your students, colleagues, and anyone

else you think might be interested. We hope to see you in Dubuque!

Best regards,

SCVMMI 2011 Admin Team