July 5, 2023

DLHS team attends MEDINFO 2023 in Sydney, Australia

The Department of Learning Health Sciences (DLHS) is fielding a team that includes leadership and key faculty members at MEDINFO 2023, a major international conference on digital health and health informatics. The conference is hosted by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health in Sydney, Australia, from July 8-12.

The DLHS team is led by Department Chair, Charles P. Friedman, PhD, and Vice Chair, Gretchen Piatt, MPH, PhD. Core faculty members, Jodyn Platt, MPH, PhD, and Caren Stalburg, MD, MA are also on the team.  The team has several speaking engagements and workshop collaborations during the conference.  The team’s engagements at MEDINFO 23 are as follows:

Charles P. Friedman, PhD, Chair DLHS

  • Sunday, July 9, 11:50 -12:30 pm AEDT
    • Session 223: Human, organizational, and social aspects
      • Panel: The Learning Health (record) System: Moving from Theory to Practice
  • Tuesday, July 11, 1:50pm – 3:20pm AEDT
    • Session 421: Information and knowledge management 
      • Panel: Computable biomedical knowledge: An imperative for learning health system 
      • Workshop: Mobilizing computable biomedical knowledge: A global opportunity
  • Wednesday, July 12, 11:10am-12:40pm AEDT
    • Session 512: Solving healthcare’s pressing challenges.
      • Panel: Can Al bring the global community together to fulfill a shortage of evidence?

Gretchen Piatt, MPH, PhD, Vice-Chair DLHS

  • Saturday, July 8, 11:00am-12:30pm AEDT
    • Session 123: Human. Organizational, and Social Aspects
      • Workshop: Designing Education to Foster Learning Health Systems

Jodyn Platt, MPH, PhD

  • Saturday, July 8, 1:15-2:45pm AEDT
    • Session 144: Human, organizational and social aspects
      • Workshop: Maturity models in biomedical informatics: Current status and internationalization

Caren Stalburg, MD, MA

  • Saturday, July 8, 11:00am-12:30pm AEDT
    • Session 123: Human. Organizational, and Social Aspects
      • Workshop: Designing Education to Foster Learning Health Systems 

The MedInfo conference brings together leaders of the digital health and health informatics movement across the world. It includes digital and health informatics leaders in government, industry, clinical areas, and research. Keynote speakers include, Australia’s Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, Ged Kearney, MP, Google Chief Health Officer, Karen DeSalvo, MD., World Health Organization (WHO) Director for Digital Health and Innovation, Professor Alain Labrique, and Program Director at the United Kingdom’s University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Dr. Phillip Scott.