LSUS to host Biomedical Informatics Symposium
03/11/04

The 2nd CERT (Consortium for Education, Research, and Technology of North Louisiana) Biomedical Informatics Symposium will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 2, in the LSUS University Center.

The symposium is designed to bring together scientists, researchers, practitioners, industry leaders, educators and students interested in the application of informatics to biology and medicine. The symposium’s scope ranges from computational tools for analysis of biological systems to knowledge discovery for biomedicine, nanotechnology and microsystems, health information management, and health care quality improvement.

The keynote speaker is Dr. Georges G. Grinstein, director of Institute for Visualization and Perception Research and the Center for Biomolecular and Medical Informatics at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Other featured speakers include: Dr. Steven F. Jennings, of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Biomedical Research Network; Dr. William Wischusen, of the LSU A&M Louisiana Biomedical Research Network, and Charles McMahon, of the LSU A&M Center for Computation and Technology. Presentations by recognized experts and workers in the bioinformatics field from the CERT institutions will be featured at lunch.

For information, contact Patty Trudell, executive director of CERT, at 318-525-9950, Ext. 222. The LSUS campus contact for the conference is Dr. Marjan Trutschl, 318-797-5131 or mtrutsch@lsus.edu.