The Great Lakes Biomedical Conference was held on April 22, 2005 at the Golden Ronelle Theatre of Johnson Wax in Racine, WI. The theme of this year's conference is "Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics”, and will provide a working overview of this emerging and ubiquitous technology with real world applications in several major disciplines, which include Health Care, Medicine, Research, Business, Biostatistics, Computers and Engineering. Five distinguished speakers present real applications in informatics that have take-home value and demonstrate the colligative applicability of informatics in their respective companies and academic institutions.

Participating Institutions

Marquette University
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Milwaukee School of Engineering
GE Health Care & Information Systems
Synergy Health
Gonzalez, Saggio & Harlan, LLP

The Speakers and Topics at GLBC 2005 include:

“Defining Informatics”
Jonathan M. Fritz, Patent Attorney, Gonzalez, Saggio and Harlan, L.L.P.

“Medical Informatics”
Kim Pemble, M.S., Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Synergy Health Care

"How to Analyze Biomedical Data"
Dr. Ray Hoffmann, Professor of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin

“Building Intelligent Dialog Systems”
Dr. Susan McRoy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin

“Convergence of Devices and Information Technology in Healthcare”
Steve Roehm, Chief Engineer and Chief Architect, GE Healthcare Technologies Information Technologies

Supporting Organizations:

S.C. Johnson Wax
Marquette University
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Milwaukee Section of IEEE
EMBS Society
Computer Society
Gonzalez, Saggio and Harlan, L.L.P.
Region 4 of IEEE

Sponsors

Diagnostic Visions

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