[DL] Call for Participation KR-MED 2008 - Early Bird Rate expires April 15th

[Ronald Cornet]

** With apologies for cross-postings **

Call for Participation

KR-MED 2008 - Representing and sharing knowledge using SNOMED

International Conference

May 31st - June 2nd 2008, Phoenix, AZ, USA

http://www.kr-med.org/2008

Conference organized by
the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) and
the Working Group on Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation
of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Collocated with the AMIA Spring Congress 2008

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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 conference 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.

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PROGRAM:
The preliminary program for KR-MED is available on http://www.kr-med.org/2008/program.html

REGISTRATION:
Registration is open, and handled via the AMIA Spring Congress.
Registration for the AMIA Spring conference is not required for participation in KR-MED.
To register, please follow the instructions from http://www.kr-med.org/2008/registration.html

Please notice that the early bird rate will be valid through April 15th.

VENUE:
The conference will be held in:
Arizona Grand Resort
8000 S. Arizona Grand Parkway
Phoenix, Arizona 85044

To reserve your hotel room at the Arizona Grand Resort, via http://www.amia.org/meetings/s08/hotel.asp.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
# 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)
# 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)

Looking forward to meeting you at KR-MED 2008

Ronald Cornet, Academic Medical Center,  University of Amsterdam
Kent Spackman, International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO)
Scientific Program Committee Chairs

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Ronald Cornet, PhD                    email: R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl
dept. of Medical Informatics          phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188
Academic Medical Center, Room J1B-115 fax:   +31 (0)20 691 9840
P.O.Box 22700                         www: http://kik.amc.uva.nl/home/rcornet/
1100 DE  Amsterdam
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