IBM Research - Medical Informatics Day 2010
Translational Medicine: Is There A Translator
Around?!
From Bench to Bedside — Developing an Ecosystem around
Evidence Generation and Use at The Point of Care
An IBM Research Medical Informatics PIC sponsored event
October 31, 2010
IBM Haifa Research Lab
Haifa University Campus
Haifa, Israel
Program
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08:15 | Registration | |
| 08:45 | Welcome Remarks and Introduction |
Oded Cohen, Director, Haifa Research Lab Uzia Galil, Founder, Galil Center for Telemedicine, Medical Informatics & Personalized Medicine Amnon Shabo, IBM Medical Informatics PIC Co-Chair, Haifa Research Lab |
| Translating the Biomedical Bench to Bedside | ||
| 09:00 | A Personal History within the Hypertension Saga: From Bench to Bedside |
Daniele Cusi, University of Milan |
| 09:30 | High Throughput Screens Highlight Alternative Splicing Modulations in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease |
Hermona Soreq, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 10:00 | Translational Infostructure: The Biomedical Information Infrastructure for Hypergenes & EuResist |
Ariel Farkash, Haifa Research Lab |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Translating the Knowledge Bench to Bedside | ||
| 10:45 | Aiding Clinical Decisions with Knowledge Extracted from the Literature, Images and Knowledge Bases, and Translated to Actionable Information |
Henning Müller, University of Geneva and U. of Applied Sciences in Sierre |
| 11:15 | The Path from the Anti-Parkinsonian Drug Rasagiline to Multifunctional Neuroprotective Anti-Alzheimer Drugs, Ladostigil and M30 |
Orly Weinreb, Technion |
| 11:45 | Cli-G: Deep Biomedical Analytics Platform – a Round Trip from Bedside to Bench and Back |
Boaz Carmeli, Haifa Research Lab |
| 12:15 | Coffee Break | |
| Translating the Information Bench to Bedside | ||
| 12:30 | AALIM - The Use of Similar-Patient Cohorts for Biomarker Identification and Effectiveness |
Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Almaden Research Center |
| 13:00 | Antidepressant Response Biomarkers: Starting the Journey with Human Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines |
David Gurwitz, Tel Aviv University |
| 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| Translating the Socio-Economic Bench to Bedside | ||
| 14:30 | Integrated Information Systems for Translational Medicine |
Alfred Winter, University of Leipzig |
| 15:00 | Simulation of Evidence-Based Incentives in Healthcare |
Ching-Hua Chen-Ritzo, Watson Research Center |
| 15:30 | Translational Medicine – A Patient Perspective |
Yardena Peres, Haifa Research Lab |
| Panel Discussion | ||
| 16:00 | Discussion: What are the main translational barriers you encounter in your research and how could we put together the various pieces of the Translational Medicine puzzle? |
Invited panelists, (See below) |
| 17:00 | Reception | |
Panel moderator:
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Dr. Joe Jasinski
IBM Distinguished Engineer
Global Industry Executive
Smarter Healthcare and Life Sciences
IBM Research
Panelists:
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Prof. Eddy Karnieli, MD
Professor & Director, Inst. Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Rambam Medical Center
Director, Galil Center for Telemedicine, Medical Informatics & Personalized Medicine
RB Rapaport Faculty of Medicine – Technion -
Dr. Mor Peleg, PhD
Head, Department of Information Systems
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Haifa -
Dr. Hadas Lewy, PhD
Technologies and Development Manager of the Maccabi Research Institute for Health Services Research and the CEO of the Maccabi R&D company: NEVET Ltd. -
Dr. David Gurwitz, PhD
Director, National Laboratory for the Genetics of Israeli Populations
Department of Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Tel-Aviv University -
Robert Moskovitch
Medical Informatics Lab
Ben Gurion University
