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2005

SEPTEMBER 2005

September 14-16, 2005, Nurses and Informatics: Transforming Healthcare, First National Nursing Informatics Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association. FMI, contact the CNIA Conference office, telephone: 1-416-303-6598; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.cnia.ca.

 

September 17-19, 2005, Fifth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, Chicago, IL. Cosponsored by the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal. FMI, contact Annette Flanagin, Director of JAMA Programs International Activities and Editorial Processing, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610; telephone 312-464-2432; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.jama-peer.org.

 

September 20-23, 2005, Commitment to Equity: Ninth World Congress on Health Information and Libraries, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information of BIREME/PAHO/WHO, the IFLA Section of Biological and Medical Science Libraries, and the Brazilian Ministry of Health. FMI, visit the Web site http://www.icml9.org/?lang=en.

 

September 30-October 1, 2005, Turning Your Intellectual Capital into a Business: First National Nurse Entrepreneur Conference, Indianapolis, IN. Sponsored by Indiana University School of Nursing Office of Lifelong Learning, NU 345, 1111 Middle Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5107. FMI, telephone: 317-274-0012; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.nursing.iupui.edu/LifelongLearning/ProgramsAndConferences/NurseEntrep

 

OCTOBER 2005

October 7-9, 2005, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics, Bellevue, WA. Sponsored by the Puget Sound Informatics Nursing Group and Bellevue Community College, 3000 Lauderholm Circle SE, Bellevue, WA 98007. FMI, contact Patricia Dombrowski, 425-564-3164; e-mail: [email protected].

 

October 22-26, Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations, to Applications, to Policy, AMIA Annual Symposium 2005, Washington, DC. Sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association, 4915 St Elmo Ave, Suite 401, Bethesda, MD 20814. FMI, telephone: 301-657-1291; Web site: http://www.amia.og/meetings/fmeet.html.

 

October 28-30, 2005, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics, Kansas City, KS. Sponsored by the University of Kansas Center for Healthcare Informatics, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS. FMI, contact Dr Helen Connors, Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Informatics, 913-588-1614; e-mail: [email protected].

 

December 2005

December 4-7, 2005, MedNet 2005: 10th Annual World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Sponsored by the Society for the Internet in Medicine and the Czech Society of Medical Informatics and Scientific Information, Department of Medical Informatics, UK 2.LF, V Uvalu 84, 150 06 Prague 5-Motol, Czech Republic. For more information, visit the Web site http://www.medinfo.cz/MedNet2005/invitation.php; to make arrangements to attend, contact Action M Agency, Ms Milena Zeithamlova, Vrsovicka 68, 101 00 Prague 10, Czech Republic; telephone: +420-267-312-333 (registration), +420-267-312-334 (accommodation); e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.action-m.com.

 

2006

MAY 2006

May 21-24, 2006, Emerging Trends and Challenges in Information Technology Management: 2006 Information Resources Management Association International Conference, Washington, DC. Sponsored by IRMA, 701 E Chocolate Ave, Suite 200, Hershey, PA 17033. FMI, contact Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Program Chair; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.irma-international.org/. Call for submissions ends October 5, 2005.

 

JUNE 2006

June 11-14, 2006, NI2006: 9th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, Seoul, Korea. Sponsored by the Special Interest Group in Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA-NI SIG), IMIA, 5782-172 St, Edmonton, AB, T6M 1B4 Canada, and the Korean Society for Medical Informatics NI SIG. FMI, contact NI 2006 Secretariat, K&K B/D #201 811-4 Yeoksam-dong Kangnam-gu, Seoul 135-080, Korea; telephone: (82-2-566-6067, e-mail: [email protected], or visit the Web site http://www.ni2006.org.