MIT Clinical Decision Making Group

BOSTON INFORMATICS RESEARCH TRAINEES

LECTURE SERIES

This server provides up-to-date information on the lecture series for BIRT research fellows and affiliated individuals on the:
Harvard, MIT, and Tufts/New England Medical Center
Combined Research Training Program In Medical Informatics.

• TIME: Wednesdays 2.30 to 3.30 (or 3 TO 4PM MIT)
• SCHEDULE: Announced a few days before with details also posted here.
• READINGS: These will be listed in the lecture announcements if available
• FORMAT: each lecture should last approximately 50 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. Please address questions about these arrangements to one of the people listed below. Generally one site will be used for one to three months.
• MAILING LIST to add or remove names from the list please mail Hamish Fraser

LECTURE LOCATIONS

• CURRENT VENUE:
• Centre for Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Hospital Directions, Map,
  
• Massachusetts General Hospital Lab for Computer Science Directions Map
  
• New England Medical Center Directions Map
  
• Brigham and Women's Hospital Directions
• Hospital map
• Longwood area map
• Harvard-MIT-Longwood Bus
  
• MIT Clinical Decision Making Group Directions Map

CURRENT LECTURES

Centre for Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Hospital

Directions, Map

• 1/14 "Computerized Bibliographic Retrieval."
  Tuesday, 4-5pm, at Beth Israel
  Profesor Howard Bleich
  

• 1/21 Moved to the next week.
  

• 1/28 Overview of Database Design Abstract
  Tuesday, 4-5pm at Beth Israel
  Rick Cooper, MD
  
  
• 2/4 "Neural Networks: What they can do for you" Abstract
  Tuesday, 4-5 pm at Beth Israel hospital
  Dr Lucila Ohno-Machado
  
  
• 2/11 Multimodality imaging
  Tuesday, 4-5 pm at Beth Israel hospital
  Aziz Boxwala
  
  
• 2/18 Moved to later date
  Machine Learning in Medicine
  Tuesday, 4-5 pm at Beth Israel hospital
  William J Long, Clinical Decision Making Group, MIT
  
  
• 2/25 Building Interactive Web Pages - Browser Side Technologies abstract
  Demonstration web page Needs Active X capable browser
  Tuesday, 4-5 pm at Beth Israel hospital
  John D. Halamka MD,
  Informatics and Advanced Research Projects Group, Beth Israel Hospital
  
  
• 3/4 Patient-Computer Dialogue
  Tuesday, 4-5 pm at Beth Israel hospital
  Warner Slack MD
  
  
• 3/11
  
  
• 3/18 Knowledge Management in Healthcare
  David Klein, PhD, MBA
  
  
• 3/25 Spring Break
  
  
• 4/1 April Fools Storm
  
  
• 4/8 Machine Learning in Medicine
  Dr William Long, Clinical Decision Making Group, MIT
  Tuesday, 4-5 pm at Beth Israel hospital
  
  
• 4/15 The COntext INterchange (COIN) Research Project Abstract
  Stephane Bressan, Research Scientist
  Thomas Lee, Doctoral candidate
  Tuesday, 4-5 pm at Beth Israel hospital
  
  
• 4/22 Logistic Regression 1
  David Wypij
  Tuesday, 4-5 pm at Beth Israel hospital
  
  
• 4/29 Logistic Regression 2
  David Wypij
  Tuesday, 4-5 pm at Beth Israel hospital
  
  
• 5/6 No Lecture
  
  
• 5/13 De-identifying Unrestricted Text and Guaranteeing Anonymity in Medical Data
  Latanya Sweeney, MIT Lab for Computer Science
  Tuesday, 4-5 pm at Beth Israel hospital
  

Previous Lectures Commencing July 1996

Other definite lectures, dates to be finalised

• JAVA and web based decision support

• Decision analysis of HRT use and risk of heart disease, breast Ca and hip #
  Dr Nananda Col

PARTICIPATING GROUPS:

• The MEDG Group at MIT
• Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Children's Hospital Informatics Program
• The Clinical Decision Making Group, Tufts New England Medical Centre
• The Division for Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Hospital
• Laboratory for Medical Informatics at the Beth Israel Hospital
• Decisions Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Anyone interested in contributing to the series or with any questions about lectures please contact your most convenient representative from the following list:

• Dr Lucila Ohno-Machado, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
  machado@dsg.harvard.edu
• Dr Hamish Fraser, Clinical Decision Making Groups at MIT and New England Medical Center.
  hamish@medg.lcs.mit.edu
• Dr Jonathan Einbinder, Centre for Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Hospital
  jeinbind@enterprise.bidmc.harvard.edu
• Dr Shawn Murphy, Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital
  smurphy@warren.med.harvard.edu

For questions about the web site contact Hamish Fraser, hamish@medg.lcs.mit.edu Send mail

Thanks to Pat Shareck (pshareck@ix.netcom.com) and John Egar (egar@medg.lcs.mit.edu )for assistance with these lectures and website: