OGMS Workshop

Date: Morning of July 10, 2013

Venue: Montreal, Quebec (co-located with ICBO 2013)

Proposed topics for discussion

• Hyperglycemia: Disorder or Disposition (Prabhu Shankar)

• Blocked Dispositions

• What is a Disease Course? (Barry Smith)

• Syndromes - are they patterns and, if so, what are patterns? (Alexander Cox)

• Diagnostic guidelines - how do they relate to diagnoses, clinical findings, signs and symptoms, and more?

• What sorts of causal relations can we assert in OGMS?

• Signs and symptoms - can we reach a consensus to treat these as roles of clinical findings?

Participants

Sivaram Arabandi (Houston)

Melanie Courtot (Vancouver)

Alexander Cox (Buffalo)

Alexander Diehl (Buffalo)

Kerstin Forsberg (AstraZeneca)

Albert Goldfain (Blue Highway Inc.)

Yongqun He (Michigan)

Bill Hogan (Arkansas)

Andrew James (Toronto)

Mark Jensen (Buffalo)

Yu Lin (Michigan)

Snezana Nikolic (Emory University, Atlanta)

Prabhu Shankar (Emory University, Atlanta)

Barry Smith (Buffalo)