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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS

Statistical, Computational and Visualization Methods in
Medical Informatics Conference
June 3-4, 2011, Clarke University, Dubuque, Iowa
http://www.clarke.edu/scvmmi
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This two-day national medical informatics conference will explore
recent advances to understand, improve and analyze the impact of
medical data analysis on treating and better understanding human
diseases. Health care professionals, clinical researchers, and
scientists will discuss and present new developments in determining
efficient models to explore treatments and disease patterns related
to major epidemic diseases such as cancer and HIV.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr. Michael Coen, University of Wisconsin
Dr. Dianne Cook, Iowa State University
Dr. Frank Graziano, University of Wisconsin & Joint Clinical Research
Center, Kampala, Uganda.
Dr. Mary Sara McPeek, University of Chicago
Dr. Robert Shafer , Stanford University
Dr. George Weiner, The University of Iowa

ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit abstracts that demonstrate original
unpublished research in all areas of biomedical informatics. Surveys of important recent results and directions are also welcome. Authors of accepted abstracts may submit a paper. The three top papers will be announced at the conference, and winning authors will be reimbursed for publication costs if the paper is published before June 4, 2012 in a top tier journal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Genetic Data Analysis
* Genome-Phenome Analysis
* Gene expression changes in adaptive immune response
* Comparative approaches to immunology
* Immunogenomics


Software Developments in Medical Informatics
* Machine learning for colossal datasets
* Visualization and graphical methods for data mining and model
diagnostics
* Decision support systems in health and medical care
* Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis
* Immunoinformatics Databases, Knowledge Bases, Ontologies

Statistical and Computational Methods in Medical Informatics
* Statistical and computational modeling in Biomedical
Intelligence, Immune Systems, Clinical Datasets, and Electronic
Health Record
* Drug and vaccine design including biomarker discovery and epitope
analysis and prediction
* Multi-agent based modeling of immune response

HOW TO SUBMIT
Abstract submissions must be made electronically to scvmmi@clarke.edu.
Please include the names and affiliations of all authors, the title of the work, preferred presentation mode (talk/poster), and the
corresponding author information (phone number, current position, and
preferred e-mail address for notification). Submission implies the
willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: April 10, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2011
Full paper contest submission deadline: May 20, 2011
(Paper writers must submit the paper abstract by April 10th.)
Registration Deadline: May 20, 2011

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Karin Dorman, Iowa State University
Roberta Lavin, Clarke University
Judy Munshower, Clarke University
George Towfic, Clarke University
Samira Kettoola Towfic, Clarke University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Doina Caragea, Kansas State University
Garrett Dancik, University of Colorado
Brooke Fridley, Mayo Clinic
Heike Hofmann, Iowa State University
Peng Liu, Iowa State University
Volodymyr Melnykov, North Dakota State University
Sonya Snedecor, Pharmerit International


Also, please circulate this to your students, colleagues, and anyone
else you think might be interested. We hope to see you in Dubuque!

Best regards,
SCVMMI 2011 Admin Team