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Healthcare / Life Sciences Focus
Overview

This year, the Semantic Technology Conference introduces its Healthcare / Life Sciences Focus – designed to address the unique concerns of the Healthcare, Life Sciences, Biotech, and Pharmaceutical Industries, and to help technologists understand their potential roles in this space.

Scheduled sessions include:
Tuesday

Embedding Semantic Data in Life Science Applications -- Challenges and Successes
Marc Hadfield, CTO, Alitora Systems

GRDDL: Why, What, and Where?
Chimezie Uguanna Ogbuji, Lead Systems Analyst, Cleveland Clinic

Biomedical Ontologies: Using Them to Access Semantics and to Enable Computer Reasoning
Daniel L. Rubin, Clinical Asst. Professor, Radiology, and Research Scientist, SMI, Stanford University

Wednesday

Healthcare / Life Sciences *Sidebar*
Moderator: Julain Shelbourne, Kaiser Permanente
Melliyal Annamalai, Oracle
Chimezie Ogbuji, Cleveland Clinic
Susie Stephens, Eli Lilly
Eric Prud'hommeaux, World Wide Web Consortium

Building coherent networks to comprehend complex biological systems in context of personalized medicine and rational drug design.
Robert Stanley, IO Informatics, Inc

Ontotext: Life Science Applications of Web Scale Semantic Technology
Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group
Vassil Momtchev, Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group
Borislav Popov, Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group

Evolving Emergency Management & Health Care Registry-Repositories in an SOA Ecosystem
Rex A. Brooks, Starbourne Communications Design

Semantic Integration for Online Analytic Processing
Dean Allemang, Chief Scientist, TopQuadrant
Parsa Mirhaji, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center
Robert F. Coyne, Executive Partner, TopQuadrant

Lex*: A Framework for Storing, Collaborative Authoring, and Querying Biomedical Vocabularies and Terminologies
Jyotishman Pathak, Research Associate, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Guoqian Jiang, Research Associate, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Collaborative Protégé: Supporting Community-Based Ontology Development
Tania Tudorache, Research Scientist, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research Natasha Noy, Senior Research Scientist, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research

Thursday

Semantic Web Technologies Meet Pharmaceutical Data
Irene Polikoff, Executive Partner, TopQuadrant
Philip Ashworth, Principal Informatics Scientist, UCB Pharma

There are numerous other sessions covering foundational and advanced topics that are applicable to healthcare. For details, see the full agenda.

 


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