[Asis-l] WISH 2011: Mentoring Program & Travel Grants for Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

[Andrea Grimes Parker]

WORKSHOP ON INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE 2011

Co-located with the American Medical Informatics Association’s Fall Symposium

October 22, 2011

Washington, DC

https://wish2011.wordpress.com/


***MENTORING PROGRAM***

Committed to the development of early-career health informatics
researchers, WISH 2011 will include a mentoring program in which
junior researchers (students and post-docs) are matched with senior
researchers in the fields of biomedical informatics and human-computer
interaction (HCI). Mentors will include individuals from our dynamic
steering committee
(http://wish2011.wordpress.com/steering-committee/).

Students and postdoctoral researchers interested in health or wellness
research in HCI and biomedical informatics are encouraged to apply. At
the workshop, there will be special invite-only events to foster
interaction between accepted applicants and their mentors.

We anticipate accepting 10-12 students into the mentoring program.


***TRAVEL GRANTS***

Through generous funding from ACM SIGCHI, WISH 2011 is pleased to
provide partial travel support for those who are selected for the
mentoring program.

***ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS***

To participate in the mentoring program and receive a travel grant:

* Applicants must currently be a student or postdoctoral researcher
interested in health or wellness research in the fields of HCI and/or
biomedical informatics.

* Accepted participants are expected to attend WISH 2011 and present a poster.


***APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS***

Interested students and postdoctoral researchers should apply for
acceptance into this program by submitting the following by August 1,
2011:

* a current CV

* a 250-word statement describing why you would like to participate in
the mentoring program and your interest in attending WISH 2011

* a poster proposal per the WISH 2011 guidelines
(http://wish2011.wordpress.com/cfp/)

Applicants will be notified of their acceptance to the mentoring
program by August 30, 2011.


***WISH 2011 OVERVIEW***

With the growing emphasis on the adoption and impact of Health IT
(HIT), HIT researchers and practitioners are increasingly focusing on
the design of interactive systems, human factors, and human-computer
interaction. Despite this progress, however, there exists a largely
untapped potential to create deeper and more profound connections
among the biomedical, informatics, human-computer interaction, human
factors, medical sociology and anthropology communities that would
lead to the development of new methods, approaches, and techniques for
removing the barriers to the adoption of HIT.

To address this limitation, the Association of Computing and Machinery
(ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'2010)
hosted the 2010 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH
2010,  http://www.chi2010.org/wish/). The workshop attracted over 150
participants from a variety of disciplines and institutions and
included a combination of invited panels, keynote presentations and
research presentations. At WISH 2010, researchers and practitioners
discussed the most pressing issues in the design, development, and
evaluation of HIT and the impact of the new research on commercial HIT
systems.

Building on the success of last year's workshop, the American Medical
Informatics Association is hosting WISH 2011, which will be collocated
with its Annual Symposium in Washington, DC, on October 22nd, 2011.
The workshop will be a part of the pre-AMIA program, and will have a
format similar to WISH 2010, including invited talks, panels and a
peer-reviewed technical program.


***STEERING COMMITTEE***

Mark Ackerman, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
Suzanne Bakken, Ph.D. (Columbia University)
Jacob Bardram, Ph.D (IT University of Copenhagen)
Mark Braunstein, M.D. (Health Systems Institute)
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, FAAN (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
James Cimino, Ph.D. (National Institute of Health)
Enrico Coiera, Ph.D. (University of New South Wales)
Kay Conelly, Ph.D. (Indiana University)
Paul Gorman, M.D. (Oregon Health & Sciences University)
Gillian Hayes, Ph.D. (UC Irvine)
Eric Horvitz, Ph.D. (Microsoft Research)
Bonnie Kaplan, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Margaret Morris, Ph.D. (Intel)
Vimla Patel, Ph.D, DSc (University of Texas)
Phillip Payne, Ph.D. (Ohio State)
Wanda Pratt, Ph.D. (University of Washington)
Katie Siek, Ph.D. (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Desney Tan, Ph.D. (Microsoft Research)


***ORGANIZERS***

Madhu Reddy (Penn State), Co-Chair

Lena Mamykina (Columbia University), Co-Chair

Andrea Grimes Parker (Georgia Institute of Technology), Co-Organizer

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Andrea Grimes Parker
Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Interactive Computing || Georgia Institute of Technology
www.cc.gatech.edu/~agrimes