[Sighlth-l] 1st ASIST Lecture - "Prevention Informatics" on April 11

[Richard Hill]

Dr. Sherrilynne Fuller to speak about "Prevention Informatics" on April 11

Dr. Sherrilynne Fuller, Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at
the University of Washington, will speak in Lexington, KY, at 4PM on Monday,
April 11, on the topic of "From intervention Informatics to prevention
informatics." The lecture will take place at the downtown Hyatt Regency
Lexington Hotel (401 West High Street) at 4PM, in conjunction with the
annual Public Health Systems and Services Research (PHSSR) Keeneland
Conference.  A reception will follow the lecture.

The lecture will be the first in an annual series funded by the American
Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). This year's lecture
funding went to the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) of the
University of Kentucky. Other co-sponsors include the UK College of
Communication and Information Studies (CCIS), the College of Public Health
(CPH), and the Ohio River Valley chapter of ASIS&T (ORVASIST).

Dr. Fuller's speech will focus on her work on developing health information
systems (from individual patient records to building integrated databases
and tools to support disease surveillance). She will discuss how the
established model of information systems to support intervention is leading
to what she calls "prevention informatics," in which information systems
help prevent disease in the first place.  She will discuss how the use of
information and communications technologies for improving health in low
resource settings. She believes that many of the information systems
problems in developing countries are mirrored in a variety of ways in the
United States.     

Dr. Fuller is a Professor in both the School of Public Health and the
Information School, of the University of Washington. Professor Fuller is
also Co-Director of the UW Center for Public Health Informatics. She
received her BA (Biology) and MLS (information Science) degrees from Indiana
University and her PhD (Information Science) from the University of Southern
California.  Dr. Fuller is a Fellow of both the American College of Medical
Informatics and the Medical Library Association (MLA).

For further information, contact:

Heather Saxon, Director of Communications, College of Communication and
Information Studies, University of Kentucky, LCLI 351, Lexington, KY
40506-0224

 <mailto:Heather.Saxon at uky.edu> Heather.Saxon at uky.edu

(859) 257-8846

 

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