Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS)

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Lynette Hirschman

LYNETTE HIRSCHMAN The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA Presentation Title: Unlocking the Patient Record for Translational Medicine Presentation (pdf) Abstract: We are seeing the confluence of three disruptive changes in healthcare and the life sciences:  mandated adoption of electronic medical records, next generation genomic sequencing technologies, and advances in biomedical informatics.  This confluence presents an unprecedented opportunity to “unlock” the information encoded in individual patients’ records and correlate it with genetic and environmental variables at both the patient and the population level. Unlocking the data will require automated tools to extract and integrate diverse kinds and scales of information, from patient phenotype to individual genetic variations to metagenomic data (e.g., the human microbiome). These tools will rely on information captured in curated biomedical databases as well as the knowledge from the biomedical literature.  We will focus on the role of standards, including “gold standard” curated data, to facilitate data exchange across different knowledge sources and to assess the effectiveness of the tools needed to take advantage of these rapidly growing resources. Biography: Dr. Lynette Hirschman is Director for Biomedical Informatics in the Information Technology Center at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA. She received her Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1972 in Formal Linguistics and held positions at the New York University Linguistic String Project, Unisys Defense Systems, and the MIT Spoken Language Systems group before joining MITRE in 1993.  Dr. Hirschman’s research has focused on human language understanding, information extraction and biomedical informatics.  Since joining MITRE, her work has included development of the MiTAP system for mining newswire for disease outbreak surveillance, text mining for metadata capture for metagenomics, and her current research on secondary use of clinical data linked to translational medical applications. This research has led to the open source release of the MITRE Identification Scrubber Toolkit (MIST) for automated de-identification of unstructured clinical narrative.  Dr. Hirschman has been a leader in the area of evaluation of natural language processing systems in the biomedical area.  She was involved as participant and organizer of the early Message Understanding Conference (MUC) evaluations. She is a founding organizer of BioCreative (Critical Assessment of Information Extraction for Biology), the first international challenge evaluation of text mining for the biomedical domain and is also a co-organizer for the recent i2b2 NLP Challenge Evaluations.

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Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS)

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Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences

Contacts

Please direct inquiries about CSHALS to:

Steven Leard
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Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences

News

2013:

• Jan 30:  Poster presentations now available on-line.   Visit the Poster Presentations page >>click here<< and check back as full detailed posters are added to the site.
  
  
• Jan 17:  ISCB is pleased to note the Joint SWAT4LS and CSHALS Thematic Series published by the Journal of Biomedical Sementics is available at: http://www.jbiomedsem.com/series/SWAT4LSCSHALS
  
  This thematic series focuses on the application of web based technologies for knowledge representation and data integration in life sciences, that seek to facilitate biomedical research and healthcare practice. The series originates in research presented at two conferences, SWAT4LS (Semantic Web Application and Tools for Life Sciences) which is held annually in Europe, and CSHALS (Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences), which is held annually in the United States. These two venues foster critical discussions on the limits, challenges, and opportunities in the adoption of semantic web technologies in healthcare and life sciences.
  
  The emergence of the Web as the primary communication medium; the ever increasing amount of biomedical information and the convergence of disciplines in the biomedical spectrum are all phenomena that point at the Web as a promising technology platform to increase the efficiency of biomedical research and healthcare delivery. At the same time, they make evident the need for semantic approaches in order to integrate information that arises from different processes and disciplines in a meaningful way. At this convergence of Web and semantic solutions we are witnessing a front of innovation where various approaches, including Semantic Web and Linked Data solutions, are proposed.
  
  The objective of this thematic series, and of the events that underpin it, is to explore this front of innovation, both in the critical assessment of current technologies and in novel proposals.
  
  The series is open for any submission that fits into these objectives.
  
  
• Jan 11: Agenda and Conference Presentation details now available.  Click HERE. 
  
  

• Jan 07: FINAL CALL for Poster Presentations - Deadline Jan 11.
  Full Details are available here.
  
  

2012:

• Nov 09: Introducing the CSHALS 2013 Keynote Speakers  Click HERE. 

Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences

Registration

• Online Registration is now available - to register go to: https://www.iscbconferences.org/CONFERENCES/CSHALS13-2013/

• Credit Card - To provide payment off line please use the credit card from available here and return by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by fax to: 1+780-414-1664

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Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS)

Key Dates and Deadlines

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Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences

Welcome to CSHALS 2013! – February 27 - March 1, 2013

CSHALS is the premier annual event focused on the use of semantic technologies in the pharmaceutical industry, including hospitals/healthcare institutions and academic research labs. With an expanded scope that includes the emerging field of data science, CSHALS 2013 should be part of your plans for 2013!

Topics covered by CSHALS 2013 span the continuum between standards development and big data workflows - the scope between Life Science data representation and its analysis. To find out more about CSHALS topics follow the link here.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

SADI Tutorial Computer requirements available at: http://www.iscb.org/cshals2013-program/cshals2013-tutorial

Jan 30: Poster presentations are now available on-line. Visit the Poster Presentations page >>click here<< and check back as full detailed posters are added to the site.

Jan 17: ISCB is pleased to announce the Joint SWAT4LS and CSHALS Thematic Series published by the Journal of Biomedical Semantics. The special issue was edited by CSHALS Organizing Committee Members Dr. Jonas Almeida and Dr. Joanne Luciano in partnership with SWAT4LS Committee Members, Dr. Albert Buger and Dr. Andrea Splendiani. Full details on the series are available at www.jbiomedsem.com/series/SWAT4LSCSHALS.

Jan 11: Agenda and Conference Presentation details now available. Click HERE.

Jan 07: FINAL CALL for Poster Presentations - Deadline Jan 11.
Full Details are available here.

Introducing the CSHALS 2013 Keynote Speakers:

	OLIVIER BODENREIDER, M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Cognitive Science Branch National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, United States Presentation Title: From Biomedical Information Integration to Knowledge Discovery Through the Semantic Web Presentation (pdf) >>Click here for presentation details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
	STEFAN DECKER, PhD National University of Ireland, Galway DERI Ireland Presentation Title: From Linked Data to Networked Knowledge or Science is a Social Construct Presentation (pdf) >>Click here for Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
	LYNETTE HIRSCHMAN, PhD The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA, United States Presentation Title: Unlocking the Patient Record for Translational Medicine Presentation (pdf) >>Click here for presentation details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
	EDWARD H. SHORTLIFFE Clinical Professor and Senor Advisor to the Executive Vice Provost Health Solutions, Arizona State University Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Scholar in Residence, New York Academy of Medicine New York - USA Presentation Title: The Amplification of Informatics Challenges in the Era of Genomic Medicine Presentation (pdf) >>Click here for presentation details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Organizing Committee

Conference Co-Chairs

• Jonas S. Almeida, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
• Ted Slater, OpenBEL Consortium, Cambridge, United States

Organizing Committee

• Jonas S. Almeida, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
• Mike Bevil, Merck & Co. West Point, United States
• Chris Baker, University of New Brunswick, St. John, Canada
• Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs, Jericho, United States
• Ted Slater, OpenBEL Consortium, United States
• Andrea Splendiani, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
• Bryn Williams-Jones, Connected Discovery, United Kingdom

Logistical Organizers

• Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Officer, La Jolla, United States
• Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, Canada
• Stacy Slagor, ISCB Director of Corporate Relations and Development, La Jolla, United States

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