The Freshmen 15 - It's All About Prevention
In the middle of the 2009-2010 academic year, freshmen received an e-mail from Dr. Melissa Rittenhouse and Alumni Emily Brown, asking the students to participate in a survey about their perceptions of the Freshmen 15. Read More »
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2012 CISAT Faculty Award Recipients Announced More >
JMU Student Recieves VOTA Scholarship Sarah DiDomenico is the The Virginia Occupational Therapy Association (VOTA) Graduate Student Scholarship Award winner for 2011. More >
O. Ashton Trice Scholarship Founded This memorial scholarship is open to all School Psychology students and is awarded to the student with the highest GPA and exceptional academic performance, honoring the intent of the donor. More >
JMU-RMH Collaborative Fall 2011 Research Rounds Announced All meetings in RMH Lower Level Conference Rooms 2 and 3. More >
Guest Speaker: Biomedical and Health Informatics
Posted: March 31, 2008
Title: “The present and future of Biomedical and Health Informatics: AMIA's initiatives.”
Date and Time: Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.
Location: HHS 1302
Our Speaker: Dr. Don Detmer, President & CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association
Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, is President and Chief Executive Officer, American Medical Informatics Association. He is also Professor of Medical Education in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia, and Visiting Professor at CHIME, University College of London. In addition to co-chairing the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group, he chairs the board of MedBiquitous, an educational standard setting organization. He sits on the AHIC Security and Confidentiality Subcommittee and Clinical Decision ad hoc work group in US Department of Health and Human Services and the Governor’s Health Information Technology Council of Virginia. Dr. Detmer is past chairman of the Board on Health Care Services of the IOM, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. He was a Commissioner on the President’s recent Commission on Systemic Interoperability. He chaired the 1991 IOM study, “The Computer-based Patient Record” and co-edited the 1997 version of the same report. He was a member of the committee that developed the IOM Reports, ‘To Error is Human’ and “Crossing the Quality Chasm.”
