September 2 - 3, 2008
Biomedical Informatics Without Borders Meeting
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
Hear how multinational collaborations, like the one between the National Cancer Institute (NCI-U.S.) and the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI-UK) are playing an important role in facilitating more connected and efficient research for diseases like cancer. Learn about the grid initiatives that are changing the biomedical research landscape and hear about the global opportunities for sharing technologies and collaborating with organizations developing informatics solutions for cancer and other diseases. Hear from your peers and gain insight into the core technologies, tools, and collaborations available for clinical and translational research, imaging, pathology, pathway interaction, and more.
September 7 - 8, 2008
AHRQ's 2008 Conference: Promoting Quality...Partnering for Change
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Bethesda, MD
The conference will bring together the best of the Agency's research and provide examples of how that research is being implemented at all levels in health care delivery. The conference will be organized along the Agency's major bodies or portfolios of work:
- Health Information Technology
- Effective Health Care
- Prevention and Care Management
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
- Value-Driven Care Health Care
- Innovation and Emerging Issues
The conference will feature interactive displays of AHRQ products and tools, along with extramural and intramural research posters in the mAHRQet Place Café. The Café will feature nearly two dozen displays of new quality improvement tools and applications that attendees can try out themselves.
October 20 - 22, 2008
NIH Consensus Development Conference: Management of Hepatitis B
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Hepatitis B is a major cause of liver disease worldwide, ranking as a substantial cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer. For approximately 90 percent of adults, acute infection with the hepatitis B virus is resolved by the body's immune system and does not cause long-term problems. The natural history of the disease is not well understood, however, which makes management of this complex disease challenging. Left untreated, chronic hepatitis B can lead to liver failure and other serious liver problems. To examine these important issues the National Institutes of Health will convene a Consensus Development Conference to assess the available scientific evidence related to key questions in the field.
November 7 - 9, 2008
NCI Translational Science Meeting
National Cancer Institute
Washington, D.C.
This by-invitation-only meeting is designed to identify opportunities to accelerate the conversion of a basic science discovery to the point of early-stage clinical trials using a poster discussion format. The NCI defines and operationalizes early translational research with the "Pathways to Clinical Goals" as conceived by the Translational Research Working Group (TRWG). The TRWG has constructed six "developmental pathways" that characterize the transformation of scientific discoveries into new clinical modalities for oncology. These modalities fall into two fundamental and complementary categories: (1) Assessment modalities, intended to characterize the cancer-related health status of an individual, and (2) Interventive modalities, intended to change the cancer-related health status of an individual, via prevention or treatment. The six pathways are: biospecimen-based assessment devices (protocols, reagents, instruments), image-based assessment (agents or techniques), agents (drugs or biologics), immune response modifiers (vaccines, cytokines, etc.), interventive devices, and lifestyle alterations.
December 16 - 18, 2008
The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities - NIH Summit
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Harbor, MD
Join the NIH Institutes, Centers, Offices, and other partners engaged in research on minority health and health disparities to:
- Highlight the research progress of the NIH on health issues among racial/ethnic minority and medically underserved populations
- Increase awareness and understanding of disparities in health
- Showcase best-practice models in research, capacity-building, outreach, and integrated strategies to eliminate health disparities
- Identify strengths and gaps in health disparities research
- Network and dialogue with the nation’s leading experts on minority health and health disparities.
January 28 - 29, 2009
Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building Research Capacity to Bridge the Gap From Science to Service
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
The goal of this conference is for the research community to exchange ideas, explore contemporary topics and identify concepts, methods and strategies to build research and organizational capacity for dissemination and implementation science. Research on dissemination addresses how information about health promotion and care interventions are created, packaged, transmitted, and interpreted among a variety of important stakeholder groups. Research on implementation addresses the level to which health interventions can fit within real-world public health and clinical service systems.
March 16 - 18, 2009
Advancing Cancer Research Through Biospecimen Science
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
The National Cancer Institute Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research (OBBR) and the National Institutes of Health Office of Rare Diseases present the 2nd Annual Biospecimen Research Network (BRN) Symposium. Every year the Biospecimen Research Network (BRN) will sponsor a research symposium to highlight the significant impact of pre-analytical biospecimen variables on cancer research and molecular medicine.
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