Monday March 3 4:00 - 4:50 PM Kelley 1001
William Hersh, M.D. Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology School of Medicine at OHSU Biomedical Informatics: Opportunities and Challenges for a 21st Century Discipline and Profession There is a growing need for more use of information technology in health care to improve the safety and quality of care as well as to lower cost and medical errors. There is also a need in biomedical research for managing ever larger and more complex sets of data. Biomedical informatics is the field which intersects health care and biomedical research with information technology and computer science. There are many career opportunities in the field, as health care organizations are hiring individuals who have knowledge and skills that cuts across not only the health-related disciplines, but also computers and technology. OHSU's biomedical informatics program is a leader in the field, both in research and education. This talk will explore some of the accomplishments and challenges of the field as well as describe opportunities to pursue research and education at OHSU as well as careers in the field. Biography: William Hersh, M.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. Dr. Hersh serves as Director of Educational Programs at OHSU, where he has led the development of graduate educational programs in biomedical informatics (http://www.ohsu.edu/dmice/). Dr. Hersh is also an accomplished research in the field. His main focus has been in the area of information retrieval, where he has authored over 100 scientific papers as well as the book, Information Retrieval: A Health & Biomedical Perspective. Most recently, he has focused his efforts in biomedical image retrieval in the ImageCLEF project (http://ir.ohsu.edu/image/). Dr. Hersh is also active in a number of other areas of research, most notably clinical and translational research informatics. He serves as Director of the Biomedical Informatics Program of the Oregon Clinical & Translational Research Institute (OCTRI, www.octri.org). In addition, Dr. Hersh has been appointed Chair of the National Informatics Steering Committee of the Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) program by the National Institutes of Health. More information about Dr. Hersh can be found on his Web site at www.billhersh.info.
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