CFP Workshop on Methods for Adverse Events representation: Ontology and Information Model (AE@ICBO2012) - Less than a month to deadline!
Melanie Courtot
July 22nd 2012, Graz, Austria
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 30th 2012 *FIRM*
A variety of information systems are used to record and process adverse event reports. Recently there have been efforts to build ontology to assist in the representation, retrieval, and assessment of adverse event reports. Still, a question remains about how the ontology might be used in conjunction with new and existing information models. For example, are ontology terms to be added to records as keywords for retrieval? Or should information models be revised in the light of a more careful ontological analysis, earlier explored knowledge representation systems, or emerging standards for web semantics?
*** Topics of Interest ***
AE@ICBO2012 solicits participants who have experience that can shed light on these questions, or who actively develop adverse event reporting systems and can serve to evaluate feasibility and utility of workshop proposals. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Existing information models, their strengths, weaknesses, and competency criteria.
• Ongoing efforts to build new information models for adverse event reporting or analysis.
• Case studies demonstrating information systems that integrate ontology in clinical systems.
• Reports of new developments in adverse event ontology.
All workshop attendees will be expected, at the workshop, to present either descriptions of their work or to articulate a position. In addition a number of participants will be selected to lead interactive sessions on focused topics.
*** Submission Guidelines ***
Full papers must describe novel ontology-related research, not previously been published and not submitted to other conferences. Short papers describe research results that are more preliminary or communicate brief position statements. We also invite full-length application-oriented papers, to showcase the development of novel and successful applications utilizing ontologies and knowledge-based technologies. The maximum allowed page lengths of contributions are as follows:
• Full paper submission: 5 pages, due Apr 30, 2012
• Short paper submission: 3 pages, due Apr 30, 2012
• Statement of interest: 1-2 pages, due Apr 30, 2012
*** Best Papers ***
Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the Journal of Biomedical Semantics, for publication as best papers. Note that those papers will undergo an additional round of revision pre-publication, and authors will be responsible for open-access processing costs.
*** Contact ***
If you have any question or which to enquire about the workshop, please contact us at info.ae...@gmail.com.
*** Organizers ***
• Sivaram Arabandi, Elsevier Health Sciences
• Mélanie Courtot, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
• Albert Goldfain, Blue Highway, Inc
• Chimezie Ogbuji, Case Western Reserve University
• Alan Ruttenberg, University at Buffalo
*** Program committee ***
• Naveen Ashish, University of California, Irvine
• Eugene Blackstone, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
• Olivier Bodenreider, US National Library of Medicine
• Taxiarchis Botsis, Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Food and Drug Administration
• Michel Dumontier, Carleton University
• David Eichmann, The University of Iowa
• Kerstin Forsberg, AstraZeneca
• Natalia Grabar, STL CNRS Université Lille 3
• Christian Lovis, University Hospitals of Geneva
• Thomas Rindflesch, US National Library of Medicine
• Jean-Marie Rodrigues, UFR médecine, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne
• Nigam Shah, Stanford University
• Kent Spackman, International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO)
• Romesh Stanislaus, Sanofi Pasteur
• Sandy Weininger, US Food and Drug Administration
More information is available at http://purl.org/icbofois2012/adverse_events/submission.htm
Please forward this announcement to everyone who might be interested - a pdf version of the CFP is available at http://purl.org/icbofois2012/adverse_events/CFP.pdf
*** Related workshop in ICBO 2012 ***
Vaccine and Drug Ontology in the Study of Mechanism and Effect (VDOSME 2012) http://purl.org/icbofois2012/vdosme/ - July 21st 2012.
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Mélanie Courtot
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Laszlo Balkanyi
Dear all,
Warmly welcome to the planned informal session `Knowledge Management in Public Health - Experiences Using an Ontology Based Approach`. Here is what we plan to discuss with you, who will be interested.
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Dr. Laszlo Balkanyi
Md PhD
knowledge manager
ECDC RMC ICKS KMLG
tel: +46761010708
Knowledge Management in Public Health - Experiences Using an Ontology Based Approach
- informal meeting on 21th July, 18:00 – 20:00, ICB0, Graz
Time(min) | What? | How? | Who? |
0-10 | Introduction of participants | roll call | participants |
10 – 20 | Warm up, focusing on one issue: why we think ontologies, terminology systems are needed in public health? | quick round table | Cecil, Laszlo and participants |
20 - 35 | First example in details: HL7 ORU in OWL - in CDC US Centers for Disease Control sponsored HL7 Meaningful Use Electronic Laboratory Reporting Nationally Notifiable Disease Ontology. The structure of the HL7 ORU lab reporting message in OWL and the binding of standards based terminologies (SNOMED and LOINC) will be demonstrated along with how these message based ontologies may be implemented to aid in automated laboratory disease reporting to public health authorities. | presentation | Cecil |
35 – 45 | Comments, questions to first example | quick round table | participants |
45 - 60 | Second example: ECDC terminology server The development process of an (ontology based) terminology service at the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control will be demonstrated. Lessons learned and current experiences with the system in production will be explained. Live access to (full) test version on line will show the system, both the human user interface to browse / edit the value sets and the machine user interface with a flexible, SOAP based interface answering queries of client applications. | Presentation + live access to ECDC TS | Laszlo |
60-70 | Comments, questions to second example | quick round table | participants |
70 – 85 | Third example will be the use of ontology for message validation and decision support in the US CDC National Tuberculosis surveillance system. | presentation | Cecil |
85-95 | Comments, questions to third example | quick round table | participants |
95- 105 | Other examples mentioned by the audience on using terminology systems in public health with / based on an ontology thinking | round table | participants |
105-110 | Demonstration of an open source OWL terminology construction tool | Live demonstration | |
110-120 | Wrap up – suggestion for a position paper | round table | participants |
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