Medical Informatics Section
Business Meeting, Sponsored Programs and Member Activities, 2006

MIS Business Meeting
Serving a Continental Breakfast consisting of Coffee, tea and rolls
Date: Monday May 22
Time: 7:00am-9:00am
Location: Hyatt - Ellis West

Reception (Informal time to meet other section and SIG members)
Hosted by Medical Informatics Section/Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG
Sponsored by Elsevier – Scopus Database
Serving Hors d'Oeuvres, drinks, beer & a wine bar
Date: Monday May 22
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Hyatt - Curtis B

MIS Sponsored Programs:

• Contributed Papers
  Stuck on E: Patron Expectation of E-Everything Changes What We Do
  Date: Monday May 22
  Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm
  Location: Tucson 38

Jane L Blumenthal
Electronic only, please: Dealing with increased user demand for electronic-only resources – 3 rd paper

Lisa M. Kruesi
With all the “E” they still want the “P”: Integrating the right balance of information resources to support medical students throughout Queensland – 4 th paper

• Panel Discussion
  How We Educate Ourselves: A Refresher on Education Options
  Date: Monday May 22
  Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm
  Location: Tucson 37
  Steven L. MacCall & Ana D. Cleveland, panelists
  

• Biomedical Ontologies and Taxonomies
  Hosted by Medical Informatics Section
  Date: Tuesday May 23
  Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm
  Location: Tucson 37
  The invited speakers are:

  • Stuart Nelson
    Head, Medical Subject Headings, National Institutes of Health, Washington , DC .

  • Joyce Mitchell
    Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

MIS Members on the Program

• Check them out: Active MIS members participating in the 2006 annual meeting in Phoenix . Congratulations to MIS standouts, Debra S. Ketchell and James Shedlock , the National Program Committee co-chairs for an outstanding line up.
  

• Our very own Julie J. McGowan is delivering the Janet Doe Lecture “Swimming with the Sharks: Perspectives on Professional Risk-Taking” Monday, May 22, 9:00 am – 10:00am .

MIS Members are CE Instructors, Panelists, and Invited Speakers

• Jo Anne Boorkman , AHIP, FMLA Reference Collection..Instructor (Wednesday, May 24, Half-day 1:00pm – 5:00pm )
  

• Gary D. Byrd , AHIP Introduction to Financial Management for Health Sciences Librarians…Instructor (Friday, May 19, full-day 8:00am – 5:00pm )

• David Howse Get Magnetized…Speaker

• Amy Gische Lyons , AHIP Ethnic Awareness & Health Information Resources: Chicken Soup & Crawdad Gumbo …Instructor (Saturday, May 20, 10:00am – 5:00pm )

• Wallace McLendon Technology Planning for Health Sciences Librarians…Instructor (Saturday, May 20, 10:00am – 5:00pm )

• Michele R. Tennant , AHIP The PhD Experience: Graduate School in the Basic Biomedical Sciences…Instructor (Friday, May 19, full-day 8:00am – 5:00pm)

• Lisa K. Traditi , AHIP Our Professional Development Liaison Teaching About Evidence-Based Practice…Instructor (Saturday, May 20, 10:00am – 5:00pm )

• Janice H. Willis Unified Medical Language (UMLS) Basics (Saturday, May 20, 10:00am – 5:00pm )

MIS members presenting contributed papers

• Jane L. Blumenthal 5/22
• Janis F. Brown 5/23
• Carole M. Gilbert 5/21
• Kathy Kerdolff 5/23*
• Lisa M. Kruesi 5/22
• Lucretia W. McClure 5/22
• Richard H. Nollan 5/23
• Rikke Ogawa 5/21
• Catherine Arnott Smith 5/21
• Cheryl Suttles 5/21
• Lisa K. Traditi 5/23
• Claire J. Twose 5/21
• Lee Vucovich 5/21
• Laura Windsor 5/21

MIS Poster Presenters

ODD Numbers:

• Marie T. Ascher – 165
• Chris Ewing – 27
• Rebecca N. Jerome – 77
• Barbara Platts – 115
• T. Scott Plutchak – 1
• Jean P. Shipman – 131
• Donghua Tao – 203
• Patricia L. Thibodeau – 187
• Patricia Wilson – 137

EVEN Numbers:

• Doreen R. Bradley – 100
• Stephanie N. Dennis – 120
• Kathel Dunn – 196
• Margaret M. Gorman – 124
• Joan Marcotte Gregory – 188
• Gale G. Hannigan – 96
• Sheila Hofstetter – 102
• Daniel G. Kipnis – 184
• Mary L. Klem – 76
• Jie Li – 156
• Andrea Lynch – 28
• Gail L. Persily – 44
• Brenda L. Seago – 82
• Lisa Smith – 66
• Leilani A. St Anna – 20
• Michele R. Tennant – 34
• Patricia L. Thibodeau – 168
• M.J. Tooey – 12
• Jean Williams – 32
• Patricia Wilson – 128