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Please forward to your mailing lists and apologies for cross post. Next week! Registration is still open! Register now while there is still space. C-SHALS 2009, Cambridge/Boston, USA, February 25-27 Call for Poster Abstracts; Sponsor & Exhibitor Opportunities; Registration Now Open! www.iscb.org/cshals2009/ ISCB’s Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences is this coming week. There's still time to register. This conference is a must-attend for anyone wishing to understand which areas of advanced intelligent information technologies can have the greatest impact in Pharmaceutical R&D and improved healthcare. The inaugural 2008 conference was well received by participants from pharma and academia alike, and 2009 promises to deliver even more of the latest technologies that researchers can implement in their own labs immediately. Visit the conference website to view the program and register for the conference. Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS) Cambridge/Boston, MA February 25-27, 2009 www.iscb.org/cshals2009/ Register Now for C-SHALS 2009! http://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/cshals2009/ With the success of the first C-SHALS Conference in 2008, the International Society for Computational Biology is happy to present C- SHALS 2009. This conference focuses on the continued evolution of pharmaceutical applications using Semantic Technologies. We have presentations and discussions of practical semantics-based approaches to Drug R&D and Healthcare, organized along specific topics and moderated to induce interactive discussions around key questions. This conference is valuable to anyone wishing to understand which areas of advanced in intelligent information technologies can have the greatest impact in Pharmaceutical R&D and improved Healthcare. C-SHALS Keynotes Announced The conference organizers are pleased to announce keynote presenters for C-SHALS 2009: Tim Berners-Lee Director World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Clark Golestani Vice President, Information Technology Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc. John Reynders Vice-President and Chief Information Officer Life Sciences Division, Johnson & Johnson Introducing the W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group Tutorial Poster submission site is closed but late posters may still be considered, space permitting, and have them contact steven@iscb.org. Read what C-SHALS 2008 attendees had to say C-SHALS themes include: * Clinical Information Management * Clinical Decision Support * Discovery Information Integration * Translational Medicine / Safety * Integrated Healthcare and Semantics in Electronic Health Records * Search and Document Management * Text Mining/ Information Extraction * Pharmacovigilance Conference participants discuss and explore the following technology issues: * How are Semantic Web standards being best used? * What technologies exist for automated reasoning and search agent? * How well do semantic tools enable the visualization and utilization of information and knowledge? A special half day "W3C Health Care and Life Science" tutorial will be held Wednesday, February 25 from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Register Now for C-SHALS 2009! Agenda-at-a-glance: http://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/cshals2009/at-a-glance.php As of February 10, 2009. Schedule is subject to change. Wednesday, February 25 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Registration 1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. W3C HCLSIG Tutorial 2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. W3C HCLSIG Tutorial continues 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Registration 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Poster & Exhibitor Reception Thursday, February 26 7:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Registration 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast (continental) 8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Welcome & Opening Eric Neumann, Conference Chair, Clinical Semantics Group 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Keynote 1 Tim Berners-Lee, W3C 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m - Noon Moderated Forum 1: BioMedicine - Tim Clark, Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School,Director of Informatics, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease Core Member, Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing - Parsa Mirhaji, MD, Director, The Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research, The School of Health Information Sciences The University of Texas Health Science Center Noon - 12:10 p.m. Tech Talk 1 Dr. Jans Aasman, CE0, Franz Inc. 12:10 p.m. - 12:20 p.m. Tech Talk 2 12:20 p.m.- 1:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Moderated Forum 2: Semantic Web in Pharma - Dr. Philip Ashworth, Principal Research Scientist, UCB Pharma - Ranga Chandra Gudivada, Biomedical Informatics Scientist, Eli Lilly and Company - Jaime Melendez, Merck and Co., Inc. - Therese Vachon, Novartis Pharma AG, NIBR/NITAS, Head of Text Mining Services 3:00 p.m - 3:30 p.m. Break 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Moderated Forum 3: Biomarkers & Compounds - Jonas S. Almeida, Abell-Hanger Distinguished Professor, University of Texas - Thomas N. Plasterer, PhD, Director, Project Planning & Data Interpretation, BG Medicine - Antony J. Williams, ChemZoo Inc. 5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Keynote 2 John Reynders, Johnson & Johnson 5:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Discussion Forum & Daily Closing Remarks 6:00 p.m - 7:30 p.m. Poster & Exhibitor Reception Friday, February 27 7:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Registration 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast (continental) 8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Review - Previous Day 8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Keynote 3 Clark Golestani, Merck and Co., Inc. 9:30 a.m - 10:00 a.m. Discussion Forum 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m - Noon Moderated Forum 4: Ontologies - Marco F. Ramoni, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School - Larisa Soldatova, University of Wales - Nigam Shah, Stanford University Noon - 12:25 p.m. Advanced Tech Talk Mark Wilkinson 12:25 p.m.- 1:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Moderated Forum 5: Knowledge Bases - Ted Slater, Pfizer - Bruce Aronow, Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics;, Scientific Director, Center for Computational Medicine, Biomedical Informatics Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati - Will Loging, Director, Electronic Biology, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Closing Summary Discussion 3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Conference Closing Remarks & Future Actions 3:45 p.m. Conference Ends
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