AMIA Announces 2008 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics

HealthLeaders News Brief, July 10, 2007

The American Medical Informatics Association will conduct a meeting March 12-15, 2008 in San Francisco to explore translational bioinformatics. To reflect the growth of novel approaches in genomic medicine and biomedicine at the intersection of clinical care and to better serve its growing member population of translational scientists, AMIA recently added translational bioinformatics as one of its three major strategic domains. This effort, which complements initiatives in comparative medicine within the scientific community, will provide a platform to share innovative research processes. “AMIA looks forward to sponsoring its inaugural research meeting focused totally on research in Translational Bioinformatics,”says Don E. Detmer, MD, President and CEO.

AMIA Board Director, Atul Butte, MD, PhD, assistant professor in medicine and pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist, will lead the meeting as the scientific program committee chair. Dr. Butte’s laboratory focuses on solving problems relevant to genomic medicine by developing new methodologies in translational bioinformatics. He has authored more than 25 publications in bioinformatics, medical informatics, and molecular diabetes and has delivered more than 35 presentations worldwide on bioinformatics, including nine at the National Institutes of Health or NIH-sponsored meetings.

A call for participation and program will be announced in the near future.