Sponsored by the National Center for Ontological Research and the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences

Hauptman Woodward Institute ∙ 700 Ellicott Street ∙ Buffalo, NY
Wednesday ∙ September 22, 2010


'''Program'''

The Next Generation of Electronic Health Records

Werner Ceusters (University at Buffalo)

[http://www.referent-tracking.com/RTU/sendfile/?file=201009FutureEHR.ppsx slides]


Knowledge in Motion: Tools for Knowledge Workers Implementing Electronic Health Records

Arnoldo Díaz (Knowtion, Mexico)


Representing the Reality Underlying Demographic Information

William Hogan (University of Arkansas)

[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/EHR/Demographics_Hogan_Buffalo_2010_09_22.ppt slides]


Rare Diseases: Towards a Global Electronic Health Record

Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)

[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/EHR/GlobalEHR_9_2010.ppt slides]


'''Speakers'''

Werner Ceusters, MD is UB Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the [http://org.buffalo.edu Ontology Research Group] in the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.

William Hogan, MD is Associate Professor and Chief of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He is researching ontology for clinical medicine and translational research.

Arnoldo Díaz studied in Harvard, Stanford and the Pan‐American University in Mexico. He is CEO and Head of Design for the software company Knowtion in Mexico.

Barry Smith, PhD is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of UB’s new [http://cbbi.buffalo.edu Center for Brain and Behavior Informatics].