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 5pm 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
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.
Draft Agenda
Evening before the Conference: Wed 9/23/15 5:00pm - 6:00pm
- Evening reception in Lobby Bar
Day 1: Thu 9/24/15
8:00-9:45
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
- David Booth (FHIR): An introduction to FHIR
- Barry Smith (Buffalo): Ontology for FHIR
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-12:00
- EHR and ontology
- Peter Elkin (Buffalo): Ontologies driving EHRs
- Bill Hogan and Amanda Hicks (Florida): Continuity of Care Document & RDF/OWL
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30
- Ontology practices
- James Overton (Knocean): Pathology Imaging Ontology
- Ludger Jansen (Universität Rostock): Good Ontology Design: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:15
- Ontology and biobanking
- Chris Stoeckert, Jie Zheng (Penn) and Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas): The OBIB Ontology for Biobanking
- Helena Ellis (Duke): Biobank terminology in practice
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
- Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo): Using Semantic Web tools to analyse ontology-structured dental records
945-10 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
- Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas) Documents and Document Acts
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00
- Wrapup session addressing issues of specific relevance to the Clinical and Translational Science Consortium
- VIVO/eagle-i/ VIVO-ISF/ and LOD: role in CTS project evaluation
- Interoperability between OBO foundry and other ontologies and (e.g. SNOMED, LOINC, NCI Thesaurus, ICD-9/10, RxNorm)
- CDISC to RDF for clinical trials
Participants will include
Sivaram Arabandi (OntoPro)
David Booth (FHIR)
Mathias Brochhausen (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
Alex Diehl (University at Buffalo)
David Eichmann (University at Iowa)
Peter Elkin (University at Buffalo)
Helena Ellis (Duke University)
Fernanda Farinelli (University at Buffalo)
Amanda Hicks (University of Florida)
William Hogan (University of Florida)
Ludger Jansen (University of Rostock)
Jihad Obeid (Medical University of South Carolina)
James Overton (Knocean)
Alan Ruttenberg (University at Buffalo)
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)
Dagobert Sorgel (University at Buffalo)
Chris Stoeckert (University of Pennsylvania)
Asiyah Yu Lin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Jie Zheng (University of Pennsylvania)
Organizing Committee
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)
William Hogan (University of Florida)
Jihad Obeid (Medical University of South Carolina) (Chair)
