CTS Ontology Workshop 2015
Ontology in Practice
The Fourth Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop
September 23 - 25, Charleston, SC
Venue
The Francis Marion Hotel • 387 King Street, Charleston, SC 29403
Starts: Wed 9/23/15 at 6pm with an optional reception. The workshop begins at 8am Thu 9/24/15.
Ends: Fri 9/25/2015 3pm
Registration
Registration is now open.
There is a $80 registration fee to support venue expenses and conference meals.
- Please register here.
- Hotel group rate booking. (Group rate expired 8/24/15)
- Charleston Harbor Cruise and Dinner (optional) #More Information below.
Goals
The goal of this meeting is to examine the benefits of and barriers to the use of ontologies and semantic web infrastructure in support of real-world applications in clinical care and translational research.
Day 1 (before noon) will focus on how ontologies are being used in EHR interoperability.
Day 1 (afternoon) and Day 2 will focus on applications in translational research.
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Agenda
Evening before the Conference: Wed 9/23/15
6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Evening reception in Lobby Bar
Day 1: Thu 9/24/15
8:00-9:45
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
- Background: FHIR; FHIR-rdf; The Yosemite Project
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-12:00
- EHR and ontology
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30
- Ontology practices
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:15
- Ontology and biobanking
- Helen Moore, Ping Guan (NIH/NCI): CDR, an NCI-developed vocabulary and database for biobanking Slides
- Helena Ellis (Duke): Biobank terminology in practice
- Chris Stoeckert, Jie Zheng (Penn): and Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas): The OBIB Ontology for Biobanking Slides
7:00-9:00 Dinner (separate registration - Optional.) #More Information below.
Day 2: Fri 9/25/2015
8:00-9:45
- Practical examples of ontology use
- Alexander Diehl (Buffalo): Using an applied neurology ontology framework for analysis of MS patient data Slides
- Aaron Abend (AARDA, Inc): Developing an Ontology for Autoimmune Disease: A key step to a unified view of autoimmune disease Slides
- Csilla Farkas (University of SC): Medical Data Protection: Semantics-Aware Security Policies
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-12:00
- Consents & medical practice documents
- Frank J. Manion and Marcelline R. Harris (Michigan): Informed Consent Ontology
- Asiyah Yu Lin (Michigan/FDA): Informed Consent Ontology with focus on Vaccine Informed Consent Ontology (VICO) Slides
- Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas) Documents and Document Acts Slides
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00
- Clinical and Translational Science Relevant projects
- Dave Eichmann (University of Iowa): The Pragmatics of Ontology and Heterogeneous Data Sources: the Ins and Outs of CTSAsearch Slides
- Geoff Low (Medidata Solutions): From PDF to RDF - Representing the CDISC Foundational Standards
- Sriram Sridhar and Santosh Srinivasaiah (BAH) Enhancing Scientific and Clinical Data Management Using Semantic Technologies
- Closing remarks
Participant list
Abend, Aaron (AARDA, Inc)
Arabandi, Sivaram (OntoPro)
Awaysheh, Abdullah (Virginia Tech)
Bona, Jonathan (University at Buffalo)
Booth, David (FHIR)
Boyles, Rebecca (NIE Health Sciences Inst.)
Brochhausen, Mathias (University of Arkansas (Med Sci))
Carson, Matthew (Northwestern University)
Daniels, Mark (MUSC)
Diehl, Alexander (University at Buffalo)
Duncan, Bill (Regenstrief Institute)
Eichmann, David (Univ at Iowa)
Elkin, Peter (University at Buffalo)
Ellis, Helena (Duke University)
Esposito, John (TriNetX)
Facelli, Julio (University of Utah)
Farkas, Csilla (University of SC)
Farinelli, Fernanda (Univ at Buffalo)
Gibson, Bryan (University of Utah)
Guan, Ping (Nat. Cancer Institutes)
Habrat, Melissa (MUSC)
Hammond, William E. (Duke University)
Hannah, Joshua (University of Florida)
Harris, Marcy (University of Michigan)
Hicks, Amanda (University of Florida)
Hogan, William (University of Florida)
Holmgren, Stephanie (NIH)
Jansen, Ludger (Univ of Rostock)
Kamerick, Michael (TrinetX, Inc)
Landis-Lewis, Zach (Univ of Michigan)
Larsen, Rick (HSSC)
Lin, Asiyah Yu (University of Michigan Ann Arb)
Low, Geoffrey (Medidata Solutions, UK)
Manion, Frank J. (University of Michigan)
Marshall, Elizabeth (MUSC)
Masci, Anna Maria (Duke University)
Meeks, Eric (University of California-SF)
Mockus, Susan (Jackson Lab, Farmington CT)
Moore, Helen (National Cancer Institutes)
Natele, Darren (Georgetown University)
Obeid, Jihad (MUSC)
Richesson, Rachel (Duke University)
Rodman, Daniel (University at Buffalo)
Schick, Lisa (Samvit Solutions)
Seppala, Selja (University at Buffalo)
Smith, Barry (University at Buffalo)
Soergel, Dagobert (University at Buffalo)
Sridhar, Sriram (BA)
Srinivasaiah, Santosh (BAH)
Steele, Robert (MUSC)
Stoeckert, Christian (University of Pennsylvania)
Stoutenburg, Suzette (MITRE Corporation)
Stratman, Jennifer (Duke University )
Xu, Julia (NYU)
Zheng, Jie (University of Pennsylvania)
Organizing Committee
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)
William Hogan (University of Florida)
Jihad Obeid (Medical University of South Carolina) (Chair)
More Information
The Charleston Blues & BBQ Harbor Cruise starts at 7pm on Thursday 9/24 night and includes dinner. This trip is optional and requires a separate registration directly with Charleston Harbor Tours. To get the group rate of $38.95 please call 843-722-1112 and use the Group Rate for "MUSC Biomedical Informatics". Note that registration online at their site will NOT give you the group rate.
More info at Harbor Cruise and Thursday Night Dinner
