Health Level Seven® International

24th Annual Plenary and Working Group Meeting
Cambridge, MA October 3-8, 2010
[HL7.org]

Future of Healthcare Using Genomics as a Key Tool

Monday, October 4, 2010 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Cambridge, MA

Program Agenda*


8:30 - 8:45 am
Welcoming Comments
Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD CEO, Health Level Seven International

8:45 - 9:30 am
Keynote Session 1:
Genetics and Genomics in Clinical Medicine
Raju Kucherlapati, PhD, Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

9:35 - 10:20 am
Keynote Session 2:
Personal Genome Project
George Church, PhD, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics, Founder of Personal Genome Project

10:20 - 10:50 am
Break

10:55 - 12:30 pm
Panel Presentation
How HL7 Addresses the Three Elements of Clinical Services, Commercial Products, and Data Intensive Research

Clinical Assessment through Family Health History
Kevin Hughes, MD, FACS, Co-Director, Avon Comprehensive Breast Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Touch-points for incorporating Genetic Data and Knowledge into Clinical Processes
Sandy Aronson, Executive Director of Information Technology, Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine

NCBI and 20 Years of Standards in Biomedical Research
Jim Ostell, PhD, Chief of the Information Engineering Branch (IEB) of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

*Schedule and speakers are subject to change.

A final agenda will be emailed to HL7 members and printed in the HL7 On-Site Meeting Schedule & Hotel Guide in August.