2004
JULY 2004
July 20-23, 2004, Cornerstones for Electronic Healthcare: National Health Information Infrastructure 2004, Washington, DC. Sponsored by Health Systems Research, Inc, 1200 18th Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036, support contractor to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Department of Health & Human Services. FMI contact Maureen Ball, telephone: 202-828-5100; e-mail: mailto:[email protected]; Web: http://www.hsrnet.net/nhii/.
July 21-24, 2004, Connecting the Healthcare Continuum: Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Office of Continuing Education, 655 West Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21201. FMI contact Sonia Smith, telephone: 410-706-3767; e-mail: mailto:[email protected]; Web: http://nursing.umaryland.edu/informatics/.
July 24-25, 2004, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics Post-SINI Tutorial, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Office of Continuing Education, 655 West Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21201. FMI contact Gail Doerr, telephone: 410-706-4122; e-mail: mailto:[email protected]; Web: http://nursing.umaryland.edu/informatics/sched_speak.htm.
AUGUST 2004
August 13-15, 2004, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics, Fairview Heights, IL. Sponsored by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, School of Nursing, Edwardsville, IL; FMI contact Karen Kelly, telephone: 618-650-3908; Web: http://www.siue.edu/NURSING/.
SEPTEMBER 2004
September 7-11, 2004, MedInfo 2004: Triennial Meeting of the International Medical Informatics Association, San Francisco, CA. Sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association, 4915 St. Elmo Ave, Suite 401, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone: 301-657-1291; e-mail: mailto:[email protected]; Web: http://www.amia.org/meetings/annual/f1.html. FMI or to join the conference mailing list, visit the Web site: http://www.medinfo2004.org/.
September 20-25, 2004, Ninth Conference of the European Association of Health Information Libraries, Santander, Spain. Sponsored by EAHIL. FMI contact Bruce Madge, Assistant Director - Patient Advice and Liaison Service, National Patient Safety Agency, 4-8 Maple St, London W1T 5HD, United Kingdom; telephone: +44-020-7927-9533; e-mail: mailto:[email protected]; Web: http://www.npsa.nhs.uk.
September 24-25, 2004, Best Practices in Distance Education for Health Professionals-Second Biennial Distance Education Conference, Omaha, NE. Sponsored by the University of Nebraska College of Nursing, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198. FMI telephone: 1-800-626-8431 x7487; e-mail: mailto:[email protected]; Web: http://www.unmc.edu/hsns/disted/information.htm.
September 27 and 29, 2004, Evidence-based Healthcare: What Place in West Africa? Eighth Regular Health Writing Skills Workshop, Abuja and Lagos, Nigeria, Africa. Sponsored by the Nigerian Medical Forum, the Africa Health Education Foundation, and the British Medical Journal - West Africa Education Unit, 65 Warden Hill Rd, Luton, Bedfordshire LU2 7AE, England. FMI visit the Web site: http://www.bmjwa.com/html/events.htm.
September 30-October 2, 2004, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Automation in Pharmacy, Carefree, AZ. Sponsored by ASAP, 492 Norristown Rd, Suite 160, Blue Bell, PA 19422. FMI telephone: 610-825-7783; Web: http://www.asapnet.org.
OCTOBER 2004
October 2004 (exact date TBA), Health Information and Poor Communities-Ninth Conference of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa, Blantyre, Malawi. Sponsored by the University of Malawi College of Medicine and the Kamuzu College of Nursing. FMI contact Ralph Masanjika, Chair, Local Organizing Committee, College of Medicine, Private Bag 360, Blantyre 3, Malawi; e-mail: mailto:[email protected]: Web: http://www.medcol.mw/ahila9.php.
October 1, 2004, Southern Institute for Health Informatics Sixth Annual Conference, Portsmouth, England. Sponsored by SIHI. FMI contact Dr Jim Briggs, Conference Chairman & Co-ordinator, Southern Institute for Health Informatics, Healthcare Computing Group, Department of Information Systems, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3AE, UK; telephone: +44-23-9284-6438 (direct line); 6445 (secretary); 6402 (fax); e-mail: mailto:[email protected]; Web: http://www.disco.port.ac.uk/hcc/sihi/sihi2004/index.htm.
October 8-13, 2004, American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA. Sponsored by AAP, 141 Northwest Point Blvd, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007; telephone: 847-434-4000. For preliminary conference information including pediatric informatics topics, visit the Web site http://www.aap.org/profed/cfa.htm.
October 10-14, 2004, Future Trends in Science Editing and Publishing: Bringing Science to Society, Twelfth International Conference of Science Editors, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. FMI contact IFSE, e-mail: mailto:[email protected]; Web: http://bvs.insp.mx/ifse/index.htm.
October 22-23, 2004, Health Informatics Workshop: Past Wisdom, Today's Needs, Tomorrow's Challenges, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Sponsored by the Manitoba Nursing Informatics Association. FMI contact Betty Thompson, Registrar, St. Boniface General Hospital, 409 Tache Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R2H 2A6; telephone: 204-237-2231; e-mail: mailto:[email protected].
October 29-31, 2004, NLN Technology Conference, San Antonio, TX. Sponsored by the National League for Nursing, 61 Broadway, New York, NY 10006. FMI telephone: 800-669-1656; Web http://www.nln.org/profdev/workshopsandconf.htm.
NOVEMBER 2004
November 19-21, 2004, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics, Tampa, FL. Sponsored by the University of South Florida Health Sciences Center, CME Office, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd, MDC Box 60, Tampa, FL, 33612. FMI telephone: 813-974-4296; Web: http://www.cme.hsc.usf.edu/wini/.
DECEMBER 2004
December 5-7, 2004, MEDNET2004-Ninth World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sponsored by the Argentine Medical Association with the endorsement of the Society for the Internet in Medicine and the Biomedical Informatics Group of Buenos Aires. For preliminary conference information, visit the Web site http://www.mednet2004.com.ar/.
2005
MAY 2005
May 21-27, 2005, Nursing On the Move: Knowledge, Innovation, Vitality, 23rd Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of Nurses, Taipei, Taiwan. Sponsored by the International Council of Nurses, 3, Place Jean Marteau 1201, Geneva, Switzerland. FMI visit the Web site http://www.icn.ch/congress2005.htm. Call for abstracts ends September 15, 2004.
OCTOBER 2005
October 22-26, AMIA Annual Symposium 2005, Washington, DC. Sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association, 4915 St. Elmo Ave, Suite 401, Bethesda, MD 20814. FMI telephone: 301-657-1291; Web: http://www.amia.org/meetings/fmeet.html.