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)
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-12:00
- EHR and ontology
- Peter Elkin (Buffalo): Ontologies driving EHRs
- Jonathan P. Bona (Buffalo) Toward replacing EHR structured data with explicit representations
- Suzette Stoutenburg (MITRE) Applying Semantic Technology for Enhanced Electronic Health Record (EHR) Visualization
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30
- Ontology practices
- Bill Hogan and Amanda Hicks (Florida): Continuity of Care Document & RDF/OWL
- 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
- 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
- Geoff Low (Medidata Solutions) From PDF to RDF - Representing the CDISC Foundational Standards
- Wrap-up session.
Participant list
Abend, Aaron (AARDA, Inc)
Arabani, Sivaram (OntoPro)
Booth, David (FHIR)
Boyles, Rebecca (NIE Health Sciences Inst.)
Brochhausen, Mathias (Univ of Arkansas (Med Sci))
Carson, Matthew (Northwestern University)
Diehl, Alexander (Univ at Buffalo)
Dolan, Mary (The Jackson Laboratory)
Duncan, Bill (Regenstrief Institute)
Eichmann, David (Univ at Iowa)
Ellis, Hellena (Duke University)
Esposito, John (TriNetX)
Facelli, Julio (University of Utah)
Farinelli, Fernanda (Univ at Buffalo)
Gibson, Bryan (University of Utah)
Harris, Marcy (Univ of Michigan)
Hicks, Amanda (Univ of Florida)
Hogan, William (Univ of Florida)
Holmgren, Stephanie (NIH)
Jansen, Ludger (Univ of Rostock)
Lin, Yu (Univ of Michigan Ann Arb)
Low, Geoffrey (Medidata Solutions, UK)
Manion, Frank (Univ of Michigan)
Meeks, Eric (Univ of California-SF)
Mockus, Susan (Jackson Lab,Farmington CT)
Seppala, Selja (University at Buffalo)
Smith, Barry (Univ at Buffalo)
Soergel, Dagobert (University at Buffalo)
Stoeckert, Christian (Univ of Pennsylvania)
Stoutenburg, Suzette (MITRE Corporation)
Xu, Julia (NYU)
Zheng, Jie (Univ of Pennsylvania)
Organizing Committee
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)
William Hogan (University of Florida)
Jihad Obeid (Medical University of South Carolina) (Chair)
