SUMMER SCHOOL on

Biomedical Informatics: Foundations and Research Directions

July 5-10, 2010
Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

http://www.lau.edu.lb/centers-institutes/software/summer2.php

The Arab Computer Society is proudly cosponsoring a Summer School on Biomedical Informatics and encourages its members to attend and share in realizing the objectives of this School.

This Summer School will offer a one-week intensive course, given by world-class experts, on the foundations of Biomedical Informatics and some research directions in this area. Biomedical Informatics refers to the study of information and computation in biology and health. It covers computational techniques and information technologies that can be used for applications such as medical diagnosis, clinical decision making, personalized medicine, molecular biology, and health care systems. Progress in this field will lead to improvement in the quality of medical treatment and health services.  The objectives of this summer school are:

·         To build teaching and research capacity in the field of Biomedical Informatics.

·         To facilitate forming Biomedical Informatics research groups.

·         To build capacity in professional IT organizations and pave the way for technology and knowledge transfer into health care institutions.

Course Outline and Lecturers:

1.    Medicine for scientists and engineers – a brief survey of healthcare

       Dr. Bruce Bray, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Utah

2.    Clinical informatics

       TBD

3.    Computing for Translational Science and Personalized Medicine

       Dr. Peter Tonellato, Director of the Laboratory for Personalized Medicine in the Center for             Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University

4.    Computational biology and bioinformatics

       Dr. Sami Khuri, Professor of Computer Science, San José State University

Who Should Attend:

Expected participants are: university academics, researchers, graduate students, and professionals from IT and health organizations, all with appropriate computing background.  A certificate of attendance will be provided.

Deadline for registration: April 20, or until the class is full (limited places).

For more information, please refer to the website OR Contact us at: si@lau.edu.lb