[DL] Call for Papers: KR-MED 2008 "Representing and sharing knowledge using SNOMED CT"

[Ronald Cornet]

The vision of a universal clinical terminology, covering a broad range of health-related domains and meeting the needs of all health professionals has stimulated numerous health informatics research activities in the last two decades.

SNOMED CT® (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms) is emerging as a comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology, since 2007 under a new international ownership.
KR-MED 2008 will follow up the successful first SNOMED conference organized in Copenhagen in October 2006, and will address health policy makers, clinicians, nurses, system developers, informatics researchers, computer scientists, terminologists and translators.
KR-MED 2008 is also the third event of the AMIA working group KR-MED. It will therefore challenge the current state and the planned roadmap of SNOMED CT development from a perspective of knowledge representation and formal ontologies.

The scope of KR-MED 2008 includes the following areas: 
* Mapping between SNOMED CT and legacy terminologies and classifications 
* Partial/local use of SNOMED 
* Ontological aspects of SNOMED CT 
* Representational Languages and the Concept Model 
* Classifying SNOMED CT 
* Coding reliability 
* SNOMED Quality Assurance and Auditing 
* SNOMED and Information Models: gaps and overlaps 
* SNOMED and archetypes 
* SNOMED and the UMLS 
* SNOMED Viewers and Browsing tools 
* International interoperability 
* Translation issues 
* Terminology and standards 
* SNOMED in life science research 
* Post-Coordination 
* Semantic annotations with SNOMED 
Important dates:
Paper submissions due: January 15, 2008
Notification of paper acceptance: February 28, 2008
Final paper deadline: March 31, 2008
Workshop: May 31 - June 2, 2008

Location:
Arizona Grand Resort, Phoenix, Arizona

Submissions:
The paper has to be delivered as pdf. Full papers are restricted to 7 pages, poster / demo submissions to 1 page (including bibliography).
For details see: www.kr-med.org/2008

Organizing Committee: 
Stefan Schulz (Freiburg University Hospital, Germany) 
Ulrich Andersen (International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, Denmark) 
Scientific Program Committee: 
Program Chairs:
Kent Spackman (Oregon Health & Science University)
Ronald Cornet (Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Hans Åhlfeldt (University of Linköping, Sweden) 
Franz Baader (University of Dresden, Germany) 
Robert Baud (University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland) 
Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA) 
Anita Burgun (University of Rennes, France) 
James Cimino (Columbia University, USA) 
Maureen Donnelly (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA) 
Kathy Giannangelo (Language & Computing, USA) 
Josef Ingenerf (University of Lubeck, Germany) 
Marie-Christine Jaulent (Université P.M. Curie, France) 
Nicolette de Keizer (Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands) 
John Kilbourne (National Library of Medicine, USA) 
Yves A. Lussier (University of Chicago, USA) 
David Markwell (Clinical Information Consultancy, UK) 
Onard Mejino (University of Washington, USA) 
Peter Mork (Mitre Corporation, USA) 
Erik van Mulligen (Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands) 
Jon Patrick (University of Sydney, Australia) 
Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) 
Jean Marie Rodrigues (University of St. Étienne, France) 
Daniel Rubin (Stanford University, USA) 
Patrick Ruch (University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland) 
Barry Smith (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA) 
Lowell Vizenor (National Library of Medicine, USA) 
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Ronald Cornet, PhD                    email: R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl
dept. of Medical Informatics          phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188
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