2005

MAY 2005

May 13-14, 2005, MINING Advanced Topics Informatics Seminar, Minneapolis, MN. Sponsored by the Minnesota Nursing Informatics Group. FMI, visit the MINING Web site, http://www.miningonline.org/.

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.

JUNE 2005

June 7-9, 2005, Moving to Web-based Learning: A Conference for Educators, Indianapolis, IN. Sponsored by the Indiana University School of Nursing Office of Lifelong Learning, 1111 Middle Dr, Indianapolis, IN 46202. FMI, telephone: 317-274-7779; e-mail: [email protected].

June 13-15, 2005, Institute on Nursing Informatics and Classification, Iowa City, IA. Sponsored by the University of Iowa College of Nursing, Center for Nursing Classification & Clinical Effectiveness in collaboration with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinical and Genesis Medical Center. FMI, contact Sharon Sweeney, University of Iowa, College of Nursing, 101 NB, Iowa City, IA 52242; telephone: 319-335-7051; e-mail: [email protected].

June 14-18, 2005, Slice of Life 2005: Medical Multimedia Developers and Educators Conference, Portland, OR. Sponsored by Oregon Health & Science University, the University of Utah, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, and the Association of American Medical Colleges. FMI, visit the conference Web site, http://www.aamc.org/meetings/specmtgs/sliceoflifeconf05/start.htm.

June 23-24, 2005 Eighteenth IEEE Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems, Dublin, Ireland. Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society Technical Committee on Computational Medicine and the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin. FMI, visit the conference Web site, http://conferences.computer.org/CBMS2005/index.html.

JULY 2005

July 18-20, 2005, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics, Preconference Session for the 15th Annual Summer Institute on Nursing Informatics, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Office of Continuing Education, 655 W Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21201. FMI, contact Sonia Smith, telephone: 410-706-3767; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://nursing.umaryland.edu/informatics/.

July 18-20, 2005, Healthcare Information Technology Project Management, Preconference Session for the 15th Annual Summer Institute on Nursing Informatics, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Office of Continuing Education, 655 W Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21201. FMI, contact Sonia Smith, telephone: 410-706-3767; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://nursing.umaryland.edu/informatics/.

July 20-23, Breaking Through the Barriers of Healthcare Informatics: People, Process & Technology, the 15th Annual Summer Institute on Nursing Informatics, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Office of Continuing Education, 655 W Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21201. Preconference sessions will be held July 18-20, 2005. FMI, contact Sonia Smith, telephone: 410-706-3767; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://nursing.umaryland.edu/informatics/.

July 29-31, 2005, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics, Fairview Heights, IL. Sponsored by the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing. FMI, contact Karen Kelly, PhD, Coordinator of Continuing Education, telephone: 618-650-3908; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.siue.edu/NURSING/conedu.html.

AUGUST 2005

August 14-18, 2005, Libraries: A Voyage of Discovery, 71st IFLA General Conference and Council, Oslo, Norway. Sponsored by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, PO Box 95312 2509 CH, The Hague, Netherlands. The Health and Biosciences Libraries Committee theme is "Improving access to health information in developing countries." For more information, contact IFLA, telephone: +31-70-314-0884; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.ifla.org.

August 28-September 1, 2005, Connecting Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics: MIE2005, XIX International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Geneva, Switzerland. Sponsored by EFMI, http://www.efmi.org. For more information, contact Symporg SA, Congress Organizers, 7 Ave Krieg, CH 1208 Geneva, Switzerland; telephone: +41-22-839-8484; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.mie2005.net/.

SEPTEMBER 2005

September 14-16, 2005, Nurses and Informatics: Transforming Healthcare, First National Nursing Informatics Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association. FMI, contact the CNIA Conference office, telephone: 1-416-303-6598; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.cnia.ca.

September 17-19, 2005, Fifth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, Chicago, IL. Cosponsored by The Journal of the American Medical Association and The British Medical Journal. FMI, contact Annette Flanagin, Director of JAMA Programs International Activities and Editorial Processing, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610; telephone: 312-464-2432; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.jama-peer.org.

September 20-23, 2005, Commitment to Equity: Ninth World Congress on Health Information and Libraries, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information of BIREME/PAHO/WHO, the IFLA Section of Biological and Medical Science Libraries, and the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Call for abstracts ends April 30, 2005. FMI, visit the Web site http://www.icml9.org/?lang=en.

OCTOBER 2005

October 22-26, Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations, to Applications, to Policy, 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.

2006

June 11-14, 2006, NI2006: 9th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, Seoul, Korea. Sponsored by the Special Interest Group in Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA-NI SIG), IMIA, 5782-172 St, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6M 1B4, and the Korean Society for Medical Informatics NI SIG. For more information, contact NI 2006 Secretariat, K& K B/D #201 811-4 Yeoksam-dong Kangnam-gu, Seoul 135-080, Korea; telephone: +82-2-566-6067, e-mail: [email protected], or visit the Web site http://www.ni2006.org. Call for submissions ends August 31, 2005.