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What's New in
Medical Informatics
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| Researcher for December: Dr. Katrina Hurley – Common sense, Communication and Vision
Dalhousie University, Division of Medical Education, Faculty Position, Tenure Stream, Medical Informatics Program
The Division invites applications for a tenure-stream faculty position in Medical Informatics at the level of Assistant Professor. Medical Informatics in the Faculty of Medicine was established in 1996. It is a program within the Division of Medical Education
Major responsibilities of the position include leadership in the Medical Informatics Program, program development in the Faculty of Medicine and in the Health Informatics Program at Dalhousie University.
For full posting, click here
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Congratulations to our Fall Master of Health Informatics Graduates
On October 15, 2011, our Fall graduates convocate. Our best wishes for the future to:
Patryk Simon (Gold Academic Achievement Award winner); Mohammed Al-Bakri (Silver Academic Achievement Award winner);
Husam Alqatami; Malak Barayan; Nouf Bashwih; and Padshah Saleh.
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Congratulations to our Master of Health Informatics Award Winners
Medical Informatics faculty and staff are pleased to wish all the best to our first Master of Health Informatics Academic
Achievement Award winners. These graduate of the program received their awards at the Health Informatics Intensive on September 7, 2011.
- Gold Award: Patryk Simon (on the left)
- Silver Award: Mohammed Al-Bakri (on the right)
- Silver Award: Kunal Mohindra (on the bottom)
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Health Informatics Research Seminar series 2011 - 2012
Click here for information on past seminars.
- January 6, 2012, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
- Location: Room L-10, Tupper Link Building, 5850 College Street
- Exploring Humanitarian Uses of Technology with the IEEE
- Colin O’Flynn, Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Dalhousie University
- Abstract
- January 20, 2012, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
- Location: Room L-7, 2nd Floor, Tupper Link Building, 5850 College Street
- Using Informatics to Delay Death, Disability and Dysfunction
- Dr. Saad Chahine, Associate Professor, Education, Mount Saint Vincent University
- and Dr. David Zitner, Professor, Medical Informatics, Dalhousie University
- Abstract: Every day patients, doctors, health services administrators and government functionaries make
choices they hope will help individuals and communities delay illness, expressed as death, disability and
dysfunction. Ideas that are easily understood by everyone are useful to support effective decisions.
Dr. Katrina Hurley, Dalhousie representative on the Leadership Committee: AFMC-Canada
Health Infoway partnership
e-Health Curriculum and e-Learning Project -- The goal of this project is to improve clinical practice and support safe
patient care by supporting clinicians in their adoption and use of electronic health records. For this project, the Association of Faculties
of Medicine will scan medical school curricula across Canada, engaging clinical educators, informatics experts, deans, students, and residents to
create new learning resources to give physicians of the future the knowledge and skills they need to adopt technological innovations in their
practice. For more information, please click here
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Two Top 10 Papers at the Applied Health Informatics Conference (AHIC), 2010
"Cross-Canada EMR Case Studies: Analysis of Physicians' Perspectives on Benefits and Barriers" authored by Grace Paterson, Nicola Shaw,
Andrew M. Grant, Elisabeth Delisle, Kevin Leonard, Shelby Mitchell Corley, Maryan McCarrey, Bill Pascal and Nancy Kraetschmer
has been chosen
as one of the Top 10 papers of AHIC 2010 and will be published in the electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) AHIC 2010 Special Edition.
"What are Canadian Medical Students Learning about Health Informatics?" authored by Katrina F. Hurley, Brett Taylor, Paul Postuma and Grace Paterson has been chosen
as one of the Top 10 papers of AHIC 2010 and will be published in the electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) AHIC 2010 Special Edition.
Our congratulations to both Grace and Katrina!
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Sam Stewart (IDPhD) wins Second Prize at the student paper competition at MEDINFO 2010
Our congratulations to Sam Stewart, IDPhD (Health Informatics) student supervised by Raza Abidi and Allen Finley, who won the Second Prize at
the student paper competition at MEDINFO 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa 12-15 Sept 2010. MEDINFO is the top international health informatics conference. Sam
competed against students from around the world. He came a close second with his paper "Pediatric Pain Management Knowledge Linkages: Mapping Experiential
Knowledge to Explicit Knowledge".
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Location of Medical Informatics Personnel
Dr. Katrina Hurley is in 2l-C1, 2nd Floor, Tupper Link Building.
Dr. Grace Paterson is in 2L-C2, 2nd Floor, Tupper Link Building.
Dr. David Zitner can be reached at his e-mail address but no longer has an office at Dalhousie.
Ms. Deirdre Harvey is in C-115B, Ground Floor, CRC Building.
Our telephone numbers and e-mail addresses remain the same.
Send comments to Deirdre
Harvey, Medical Informatics
Division of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine· 1459 Oxford St. · Halifax · Nova
Scotia · B3H 4R2
Phone: 902-494-2234 Fax: 902-494-2278
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