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Nation’s Capital Hosts Medical Informatics Symposium

By Heather Hogstrom

The AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium will be held November 4­–8 in Washington, D.C., where Informatics professionals will have plenty of educational opportunities from which to choose. The symposium, which encompasses translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, consumer health informatics, and public health informatics, will offer up to 25.5 CE credits; 22 preconference workshops; more than 350 poster presentations; a large selection of scientific sessions including panels, oral presentations, and system demonstrations; and plenty of exhibitors and Learning Showcase presentations in the Exhibit Hall.

The opening keynote speaker is Eric Dishman, director of the “All of Us” Research Program at the National Institutes of Health. Chris Wiggins, PhD, an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the chief data scientist at The New York Times, will present the closing keynote. At the 7 AM Sunrise Sessions, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, director of the National Library of Medicine, and Don Rucker, MD, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, will give updates on their respective organizations.

Attendees will want to register for the meet-up on Monday night at Buffalo Billiards, where they can enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres while playing billiards, skeeball, ping pong, foosball, and more. Additional networking opportunities include a dance party on Tuesday evening. To see more of the city while raising awareness of informatics, attendees can register at no cost for AMIA’s Fun Run on Sunday morning.

Download the free conference app from the iTunes App Store or Google Play to build a schedule, view presentation information, check venue maps, receive updates, and connect with other attendees. For those posting about the symposium on social media, the official hashtag is #AMIA2017.

For more information or to register, visit www.amia.org/amia2017.

— Heather Hogstrom is an editorial assistant at For The Record.