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2005

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 site: 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 site: 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 site: 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 Dr Karen Kelly, Coordinator of Continuing Education, telephone: 618-650-3908; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: 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." FMI, contact IFLA, telephone: + 31-70-314-0884; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: 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. FMI, contact Symporg SA, Congress Organizers, 7 Ave Krieg, CH 1208 Geneva, Switzerland; telephone: +41-22-839-8484; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: 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 site: http://www.cnia.ca.

 

September 17-19, 2005, Fifth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, Chicago, IL. Co-sponsored 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 site: 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. FMI, visit the Web site http://www.icml9.org/?lang=en.

 

OCTOBER 2005

October 7-9, 2005, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics, Bellevue, WA. Sponsored by the Puget Sound Informatics Nursing Group and Bellevue Community College, 3000 Lauderholm Circle SE, Bellevue, WA 98007. FMI, contact Patricia Dombrowski, telephone: 425-564-3164; e-mail: [email protected].

 

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 site: http://www.amia.org/meetings/fmeet.html.

 

October 28-30, 2005, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics, Kansas City, KS. Sponsored by the University of Kansas Center for Healthcare Informatics, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS. FMI, contact Dr Helen Connors, Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Informatics, telephone: 913-588-1614; e-mail: [email protected].

 

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, AB, T6M 1B4 Canada, 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]; Web site: http://www.ni2006.org. Call for submissions ends August 31, 2005.