OGMS Workshop

Date: Morning of July 10, 2013

Start: 9:00am

End: 1:00pm

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

Proposed topics for discussion

• Hyperglycemia: Disorder or Disposition (Prabhu Shankar)

• Blocked Dispositions (Albert Goldfain)

• What is a Disease Course? (Barry Smith)

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

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

• Conditions and situations in SNOMED - how to benefit from OGMS (Stefan Schulz)

Tentative

• 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?

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)

Heiner Oberkampf (Trier)

Stefan Schulz (Graz)

Prabhu Shankar (Emory University, Atlanta)

Barry Smith (Buffalo)