TOPICS AND TIMETABLE

TOPICS TO BE PRESENTED

The following topics are of current and continued interest, but are not meant to limit any other ideas. Both applied work and methodological contributions are welcomed.

APPLIED AREAS

• Bioinformatics
• Behavioral Medicine (Nutrition, Life Style, etc.)
• Clinical Strategies or Guidelines
• Cognition, Attitudes, Psychology
• Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Disaster Management
• Disease Management
• Global Health
• Ethical and Legal Issues
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Health Economics
• Health Informatics
• Health Policy and Management
• Health Services Research
• Health Technology Assessment
• Infectious Disease Modeling
• Nursing Decisions
• Outcome Assessment
• Patient Education
• Patient Involvement in Research Design
• Personalized Medicine
• Quality of Care
• Risk Attitudes
• Risk Communication
• Shared Decision Making

METHODOLOGICAL AREAS

• Artificial Intelligence, Computer-Aided Diagnosis, and Expert Systems
• Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
• Database Strategies
• Decision Analysis, Decision-Analytic Modeling
• Education in Medical Decision Making
• Epidemiology
• Statistics in Life Sciences
• Uncertainty Assessment
• Utility Theory

TENTATIVE TIMETABLE