Collaboration and Data-Sharing Tools meetings & conferences

International Society for Disease Surveillance 2013 Conference

December 12-13, 2013 New Orleans, Louisiana

The International Society for Disease Surveillance twelfth annual conference will be held December 12-13, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Sheraton New Orleans, with Pre-Conference Workshops on Wednesday, December 11th. The theme for this year's conference— Translating Research and Surveillance into Action— highlights one of the salient topics voiced by the biosurveillance community, and will focus on strategies for incorporating the latest in biosurveillance approaches, methodologies, and results into data-driven public health practices, programs, and policies.

Both the 2013 ISDS Pre-Conference Workshops and Conference are designed help to build capacity for public health surveillance at multiple levels— from the local to global— by addressing a need for information about the most up-to-date practices, tools, and research results. By convening professionals from across the spectrum of biosurveillance, including public health practitioners, academic researchers, healthcare providers, and policymakers, ISDS harnesses the extensive and collective expertise of ISDS members, as well as other stakeholders, to advance surveillance through the integration of research and practice. This unique gathering has resulted in past attendees consistently reporting making positive changes in their work based on what they learned at a pre-conference workshop and the conference.

Do not miss this opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and build upon the knowledge base developed by the attendees — join us in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans!

International Smoke Symposium

Presented by the International Association of Wildland Fire, in conjunction with National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee and Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)

October 21-24, 2013 The Marriott Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland, USA

As the extent of global wildland fire and smoke increases, changes in air quality and climate will result in greater threats to human health, ecosystems, and infrastructure in the United States and internationally. The International Smoke Symposium will provide a venue to explore the complex issues surrounding wildland fire and smoke; discuss different management strategies adopted around the world; and identify knowledge gaps within the field of smoke science for future research, innovation, and development.

This symposium will serve as a nexus of interdisciplinary research, management, and policy. Research specialists, managers, and policy makers from non-governmental organizations, government agencies, tribes, and private institutions will be able to discuss and evaluate current practices and the latest research and technological developments that inform decision making and provide a critical sounding board for future research needs and practical solutions to management challenges.

OBJECTIVES

The Symposium will:

Create an international forum to discuss complex smoke issues surrounding both wildland and agricultural fire.

Identify research gaps and priorities for smoke science and air quality communities to address and meet contemporary challenges regarding public health, transportation safety, fire personnel exposure and changes in climate.

Increase awareness of ongoing smoke science research for professionals engaged in fire activities, air quality management, resource stewardship, military land-use activities, and emergency services.

Provide innovative training opportunities for managers and operational professionals through a virtual platform.

Showcase contemporary science and technologies to promote pioneering management and policy strategies.

Raise awareness of the global diversity of approaches, issues, ideas and mitigation strategies in fire behavior and smoke management as they pertain to ecological concerns, social perceptions, and economic issues.

Contact Us:

Mikel Robinson
Executive Director
International Association of Wildland Fire
1418 Washburn Street
Missoula, Montana 59801 USA

(01) (406) 531-8264
Toll Free from US & Canada:
(888) 440-IAWF (4293)
execdir@iawfonline.org

American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Care Symposium

Novembe 1-2, 2013 San Diego, California

ASCO's Quality Care Symposium will bring together leaders in the fields of quality, health services research, and oncology outcomes to present applied practice innovations and share methods for measuring and improving the quality of cancer care. Designed to address critical questions and provide healthcare professionals with the tools needed to administer superior care, the two-day Symposium will feature applicable, patient-focused educational sessions, panel discussions, and abstract presentations.

34th Anthropology and Health Conference

Anthropology and Personalised Medicine: Impacting the Future of Comprehensive Healthcare

8th-12th September 2013, Inter University Centre, Don Frana Bulića 4, 20 000 Dubrovnik, Croatia

Objectives:

1. To delineate anthropological perspectives on biological constructs of diversity such as “race” and their historical and current impact on the development and practice of personalized medicine.

2. To delineate anthropological sociocultural constructs of diversity such as racism and ethnocentrism, bioethics, health equity and disparities and their historical and current impact on the development and practice of personalized medicine.

3. To examine anthropological contributions to the molecular genetic, population genetic and epigenetic foundations of personalized medicine using Croatian populations as an exemplar.

4. Through the dual lenses of medicine and anthropology discuss new developments and projected epidemiological impact of personalized medicine on metabolic syndrome, diabetes, cancers, forensic sciences, and other diseases and conditions.

5.To develop a comprehensive approach to the dissemination, tracking and assessment of the impact of the conference using the Becker Model.

2013 VIVO Conference

Aug. 14-16, 2013 St. Louis, Missouri

The VIVO conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with VIVO team members from participating institutions, and offers an open and collaborative environment to share ideas and discuss topics related to adoption and implementation of VIVO, VIVO-based tools and the opportunities created by advancing data sharing and team science.The Fourth Annual VIVO Conference will be held in St. Louis from Aug. 14-16, 2013

Who Should Attend?

If you are interested in scholarly collaboration and research discovery, than the VIVO 2013 Conference may be for you!  This conference is designed for scholars, scientists, researchers, developers, publishers, funding agencies, research officers, students, institutional officials and those supporting the development of team science.

This year's VIVO conference provides a unique opportunity for people from across the country and around the world to come together in the spirit of promoting scholarly collaboration and research discovery.

Questions?

Do you have questions about the VIVO Conference?  We're here to help! 

Contact Designing Events today:

+1-410-654-5525

vivo@designingevents.com

6th International Conference: Diagnostic Error in Medicine

September 22–25, 2013 Chicago, Illinois

Patient safety and reduced error in medical diagnosis — these are the goals of the Diagnostic Error in Medicine (DEM) Conference. The sixth meeting of this international event, held in Chicago, welcomes health professionals across all disciplines to engage and collaborate in meaningful dialogue.

Diagnostic errors (missed, delayed, incorrect diagnoses) account for significant harm but are underemphasized and understudied. The DEM Conference is dedicated to Define, Measure and Improve diagnostic errors, with an exciting line-up of speakers and educational programming. The DEM Conference is the only event dedicated solely to the problem of diagnostic error, bringing together stakeholders with a shared goal of improving patient safety.

The goals of the Conference include:

Acknowledging the frequency, impact, and public health significance of medical misdiagnosis

Developing a constituency of advocates from across the healthcare delivery spectrum

Defining the causality of, and exploring strategies to improve, diagnostic error in medicine

Sharing research methods and results relevant to clinical reasoning, diagnostic error, and misdiagnosis-related harm

This program is jointly sponsored by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

First International Conference on ICTs for Disaster Management

March 24-25, 2014 Algiers, Algeria

ICT-DM'2014 is the inaugural edition for a new conference event on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Disaster Management. The conference aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in the emergency services, emergency planning, disaster management and allied professions, to learn about latest developments, share research, experiences and information about this area.

Disasters are events that cause dramatic losses of life and property and disrupt the normal functioning of the economy and society on a large scale. Disaster management is multifaceted process for developing strategies to reduce the impact of disasters and provide assistance to affected populations. Disaster management involves information- and communication-intensive activities before, during and after disaster strikes. The revolutionary potential of ICTs lies in their ability to instantly and continuously facilitate rapid communication and flow of information, capital, ideas, people and products. Because of this potential, ICTs have made incredible leaps in their usefulness for many application areas and this makes everyone agrees to consider that they have the potential to revolutionize the disaster management area too.

The conference will include paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research and practices in technologies and systems for prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. The themes include (but not limited to) emergency communication, collaboration and coordination, decision enhancement systems, security and privacy, geo-information and space technologies, multi-sensor data collection, information dissemination and early warning and standardization efforts.

There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in practice-focused research.

Requests can be sent to:

E-Mail: ictdm2014@gmail.com

Fax: +213 (0) 21 91 21 26

GlobalSIP 2013 Symposium on: Advancing Neural Engineering Through Big Data

GlobalSIP 2013

1st IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing

December 3-5, 2013 Austin, Texas

Symposium Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013

The past two decades have seen an explosion in Neural Engineering research dedicated to interfacing the nervous system to the external world. Research in this area has been motivated by the promise of treatments for elusive medical conditions ranging from blindness to chronic pain to spinal cord injury, and has been supported by a sustained campaign from a spectrum of federal funding agencies. Overall progress in the field has been limited by the lack of large, comprehensive data resources. The purpose of this symposium is to focus the attention of the research community on a progression of neural engineering research questions and to generate and curate massive data sets to be used in addressing those questions. The existence of massive common data corpora has proven to substantially accelerate research progress. In this symposium, we will explore the community needs for such massive data and discuss models for the funding, development and distribution of these resources.

Medicine 2.0 '13

September 23-24, 2013 London, United Kingdom

Medicine 2.0 '13, aka the 6th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web2.0 in Health and Medicine, this year hosted in London, will once again be very international and contain a unique mix of traditional academic/research, practice and business presentations, keynote presentations, and panel discussions to discuss emerging technologies in health and medicine, with an emphasis on Internet-based, social media, and mobile technologies.

We strive for an interdisciplinary mix of presenters from different countries and disciplines (e.g. health care, social sciences, computer science, engineering, or business) and with a different angle (research, practice, and business).

Why attend?

While Medicine 2.0 (which we read as “next generation medicine”) has inspired and spun off regional, mostly non-academic meetings, the well-known Medicine 2.0 congress remains the annual main event, and is the top-rated conference in the field, with international participation and a peer-reviewed research stream, a practice stream, and a business stream.

Medicine 2.0 rotates each year to a new host ensuring that you don’t hear the same speakers and ideas over and over again. Past conferences have been in Canada, Europe, and the USA.

Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference

June 24th - 26th 2013, Bristol, United Kingdom

Conference themes

Healthy and Creative Ageing

Global Health Inequalities and Culture

Culture and the Social Determinants of Wellbeing

With a particular focus on:

Research

The latest research and new methodologies

The dissemination of international research and evaluation

Practice

Museums and Health

Arts in healthcare settings

Arts and health promotion/prevention

Contact us

The Culture, Health & Wellbeing conference is being delivered by Arts & Health South West on behalf of the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing with the support of the Royal Society for Public Health.

Arts & Health South West
PO Box 7515
Dorchester
DT1 9FX

+44 1305 269081
info@culturehealthwellbeing.org.uk