Workshop Agenda
This workshop will be available via the Access Grid.
Thursday September 7, 2006Note: All activities will take place in the NCSA Auditorium unless otherwise noted. | ||
| 8:00 - 8:45 | Registration and continental breakfast | NCSA Lobby |
| 8:45 - 9:15 | Welcome from co-sponsors:
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| 9:15 - 9:45 | Cyberenvironments for Multi-disciplinary Research Jim Myers, leader of NCSA's Cyberenvironments and Technologies Directorate |
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| 9:45 - 10:15 | Space-Time Scan Statistics for the Early Detection of Disease Outbreaks Martin Kulldorff, Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Use of International Travelers as Sentinels for Global Infectious Disease Events David Freedman, University of Alabama |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Surveillance of Zoonotic Diseases Uriel Kitron, Center for Zoonoses Research |
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| 11:30 - 1:00 | Lunch Poster Session Start |
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| 1:00 - 1:30 | Cyberinfrastructure for Epidemiological Simulations Stephen Eubank, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute |
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| 1:30 - 2:00 | Derek Cummings, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | D2K and Data Analytics Loretta Auvil, NCSA |
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| 2:30 - 3:15 | Breakout session | |
| 3:15 - 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Breakout session reports: | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Public Health Panel Discussion Moderator: Janet Jokela, MD, MPH, UIUC College of Medicine Panelists: Karen Becker, Senior Health Advisor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services John Dwyer Napoleon B. Knight, Jr. MD, Vice President Medical Affairs/Quality, Carle Foundation Hospital Bruce Steiner, Chief, Surveillance Section, Illinois Department of Public Health |
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| 5:00 - 6:30 | Reception Technology demos and poster session |
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Friday September 8, 2006Note: All activities will take place in the NCSA Auditorium unless otherwise noted. | ||
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Continental breakfast | NCSA Lobby |
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Keynote address Karen Becker, DVM, MPH, Diplomate ACVPM, Senior Health Adviser, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | Satellite Remote Sensing for Infectious Disease Mapping and Vector Habitat Monitoring Gilbert L. Rochon, PhD, MPH, Associate Vice President for Collaborative Research & Engagement at Purdue University |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | From Disasters to WoW: Enabling Communities with Cyberinfrastructure Noshir Contractor, NCSA |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Charting Next Steps Moderator: Eric Jakobsson |
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| noon | Box lunches to go (provided) | |
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