Dr. William Hersh
What is Biomedical Informatics?
- Good overview of biomedical informatics field and different roles one could have
- Great overview, amazingly knowledgeable speaker. Also points to the impact of legislation, regulation and policy on HIT and informatics.
- Clarified the definition of informatics
Dr. Donald Lindberg
Genetics, Genomics, and Why We Care
- Great story telling and making the discovery of science and medicine come alive in a very interesting and engaging way.
- I love to hear the story behind the discovery and the personal characteristics that helped or hurt a new direction in medicine.
- Wonderful presentation. I enjoyed the historical aspect of the lecture as well as the new emerging trends in biomedical science.
Ms. Kathy Davies
NLM Resources
- Good overview of the NLM resources. At the end of the session I was familiar with resources in different disciplines.
- Incredible to see the treasure trove of resources available on NLM. I am really impressed by the quality and depth of information. I will certainly use this as a primary source of my research collaboration and teaching going forward.
- This was one of my favorites! So much useful information packed into a short session.
Dr. Rana Morris
Practical Bioinformatics for the Clinic
- Very interesting content. This was relevant to my work and will help me prepare materials for teaching workshops on the topic. The hands on case study made the learning experience much more relatable.
- Great capacity to communicate complex information and teach strategies to reproduce the case discussed. Unique ability to motivate and engage the audience.
- Wow! Dr. Morris is not only a great presenter, she manages to make a difficult subject understandable. Who knew NLM and NCBI had such an extensive resources. Opened my eyes.
Dr. Rana Morris and Ms. Kathy Davies
Exercises in Knowledge Retrieval
- NCBI cases and the information retrieval exercises were helpful in getting the hands on and applying different tools in answering questions.
- Challenged my brain in ways it hasn't been challenged in decades. Thanks!
- Great way to explore the resources! Some were pretty hard. :) I liked the format of giving the answers to one exercise halfway through and posting them for us to refer to later.
Dr. Olivier Bodenreider
Controlled Vocabularies
- Great presentation that integrated librarian knowledge and patient care. I will be using a lot of what I learned here when I return to work.
- I appreciated how he distilled the key points up front and built on them. I found I learned quite a lot of theory behind the terminologies and standards I currently use that I'll be able to apply when considering terms to apply, as well as evaluating data quality from standards-driven, encoded queries.
- This session was excellent. Great history of how diseases began to be named/classified, and speaker really made this topic interesting.
Dr. Christopher Chute
Semantic Standards
- Brilliant and charismatic speaker, a unique expert. Excellent presentation and great capacity to really convey very complex information mixed with history, rationale and foundations. I could never imagine I was going to be able to see through this field so clearly and it is all thanks to the way the topic was presented.
- Fascinating presentation. Explained complex subject in understandable way. It was interesting to learn about different health data standards supporting the research process.
- Very informative, very dense, and great information for someone to be a change agent.
Dr. Jessica Schwind
Public Health Informatics
- Dr. Schwind was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the subject! The session was interactive and there were many public health resources that were introduced to the group.
- Who knew public health could be so much fun. And that social media is displacing traditional reporting mechanisms.
- Great enthusiasm, and great presentation. Raised ideas on data sources and reporting tools I hadn't considered before. Thanks!
Dr. Deborah Estrin
Leveraging Mobile Technologies for Health Research and Intervention
- I appreciated Dr. Estrin's presentation and approach to the field of mHealth
- Dr. Estrin was engaging and easy to follow. The session covered recent developments in mobile technologies with the goal to manage health related activities and make healthcare decisions.
- Lots of information that was new to me. Very interested in the potential role of mobile apps in clinical settings.
Dr. Jeremy Warner
Electronic Health Records, Application Programming Interfaces, and Apps
- A great presentation that exceeded my expectations - enough variety to engage novices and experts while keeping a great pace for the class.
- Bravo for including a variety of teaching methods (clicker, exercise, lecture), and presenting so much interesting information! I really liked learning about the types of EHRs (companies), types of CDS, and challenges.
- Dr. Warner took a long and dense topic and made it understandable and interesting. We still have a lot to learn and his presentation helped.
Dr. Rebecca Schnall
Consumer Informatics and Social Media
- The lecture was interesting, and it presented a case study conducted at Columbia University. The speaker was engaging and addressed the strengths and limitations of the study.
- I enjoyed Dr. Schnall's focus group research presentation and the time spent on user design.
- Liked the hands on activity trying to think like a consumer and not a medical professional.
Dr. Paul Harris
Data Management
- Very engaging and stimulating discussion of the various items to consider when designing research studies as well as database construction and more.
- Fantastic and engaging speaker! The activity was interesting and it was a great refresher of best practices. I do my own research so was nice to see that I'm doing things right (validation!) and got some ideas about what to teach grad students and faculty on this topic.
- Excellent lecture! Very interactive, informative and descriptive. Dr. Harris was able to walk us through key components of data management in a creative and fun way. Key concepts and strategic thoughts were very well explained.
Dr. Paul Harris
Data Management Implementation Using REDCap
- Group exercise was fantastic way to learn RedCap. Wonderful session for an evening class!! He is fantastic at teaching and just generally interacting with students.
- What a great session! Dr. Harris is knowledgeable, fun to listen to and a great teacher. I was glad to have seen a great demo as well as participate in a fun project.
- Fantastic Lecture. Really liked the group activity. I liked the structure of showing first and then letting us go into groups for practice.
Dr. Randy Miller
Ethics of Informatics Research, Publication, and Clinical Implementations/Evaluations
- Thought provoking lecture on ethical issues related to research. The speaker was engaged with the audience, asking questions and explaining ethical issues.
- I enjoyed Dr. Miller's presentation and approach to the challenging topic of ethics and health informatics. I particularly found the vignettes with discussion useful in bringing the issues alive.
- Critical topic. Questions and answers scenarios were useful and facilitated discussions.
Dr. Kim Unertl
Organizational Issues
- Love Dr. Unertl's teaching style- good Power Point content, discussion/audience sharing with whiteboard, letting participants choose the case to focus on, and having audience answer questions together, etc. Dr. Unertl really knows her communication/sociology theories, and I loved the content!
- I enjoyed Dr. Unertl's presentation and approach to a complex area. I found the use of the 'worked example' throughout the session that we came back throughout the session helped make the issues addressed more practical and realistic.
- I appreciated her engineering framework to build an analytic approach to implementation and change management. .
Dr. William Braithwaite
Privacy, Security and HIPAA
- HIPAA has actually been a source of eye rolling at our institution as something that is just there to be "annoying" and "inflict more work." It's been beneficial to me to really understand the intent and how HIPAA was formed as well as an understanding of the applications in a new light.
- The most outstanding lecture that I have ever heard about HIPAA (and I have heard many)! Great illustrative examples and active learning through these case references
- I liked this because it gave a great foundation on HIPAA. Knowing the history and application to current practices was useful for understanding the informatics issues related to HIPAA.
Dr. Michael Ackerman
Imaging Informatics - Michael Ackerman
- Very helpful to understand imaging does not just mean for photos or radiology but applies to AI.
- Dr. Ackerman has a very engaging style of teaching and his knowledge is comprehensive. I enjoyed the engineering component of his presentation even though I have no engineering capability.
- Very interesting topic. Dr. Ackerman explained the key concepts on a step by step process in a very elegant way. The visual communication was excellent.
Dr. Çağatay Demiralp
Health Data Visualization
- Concepts are both fascinating and practical. History of data visualization and need to understand that how data is visually presented affects both understanding and accepting of information presented is also really important.
- The exercises were interesting. I hope to use the software and data visualization techniques in the future.
- This was a very interesting session. I learned a great deal about data visualization which I didn't know before. As a complete newbie, this was good.
Dr. Jay Ostrowski
Using Telehealth to Increase Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration and Improve Health Care Outcomes
- Dr. Ostrowski gave a great presentation - balanced lecture with questions well, even though we asked A LOT of questions!
- Very exciting and practical presentation from provider perspective. Had actionable ideas after this lecture!
- This was a very informative presentation regarding the status of telemedicine in the US today. It filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge.
Dr. Wendy Chapman
Natural Language Processing
- I appreciated Dr. Wendy Chapman's presentation about NLP, and her use of an example to highlight challenges that face those doing NLP. I found the clinical report example engaging, the concepts though-provoking, and her direct approach to answering questions helpful.
- Great presenter; very well-articulated lecture, from the very basic concepts to the sophisticated ones. Great attention was also payed to the application of the concepts in real scenarios.
- The methodological review of how to structure NLP was fantastic!
Dr. Dmitry Kondrashov
Mathematical Modeling with Clinical Decision Support
- As someone for whom math was unnatural I thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Kondrashov's session. He is engaging, quite knowledgeable and makes a difficult subject understandable. This session had me thinking about statistical models that could be applied to other settings and problems.
- Great speaker!! Capable of explaining mathematical concepts/models in a very easy way. The session was relevant and very informative.
- Nice introduction to mathematical models, and the class exercises were effective to understand session concepts.
Dr. Elmer Bernstam
Personalized Medicine
- Good overview of challenges that health professionals face in the Precision Medicine field from an informatics perspective.
- Great speaker and presentation. Very good example of how research, information, and clinical data can work together.
- Another great presentation by another wonderful faculty member. A bit more practical than theoretical from my perspective and a wonderful overview of precision medicine for clinical application. Great delivery, great interactions with the audience.
Dr. Patricia Brennan
Anticipating the 3rd Century of the National Library of Medicine
- Wonderful way to end the conference. Really brought together everything we learned this week to showcase how important the relationships are between librarians and the medical community. The collaboration opportunities are very exciting.
- Dr. Brennan is an excellent leader and ambassador. Thank you for research, training, innovative research that builds a future and literacy for all of us. NLM is the trusted source of information that I always go to first and foremost.
- Great summary of the accomplishments, issues, and challenges of the NLM.
