Transcript The Digitalization of Biology & Medicine

Bioinformatics
Education:
Training a New
Generation of
Professionals
Patricia Dombrowski
May 2005
Bellevue Community College
3rd Largest Higher Ed in State
 22, 000 students per quarter
 IT State Center of Excellence
 Microsoft’s Backyard
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BELLEVUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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Life Science Informatics Center
Lives With Industry
 Breathes Workforce Development
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Skill Standards
 Curriculum
 Faculty Support
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BIOINFORMATICS 2004 – 2005 ●
 Regional
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Explore Emerging Job Descriptions
 Develop
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Skill Standards
Industry Validation
 Expand
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& National Focus Groups
Medical Informatics Curriculum
Bridge to Bioinformatics
BIOINFORMATICS 2005 – 2006
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Develop Bioinformatics Curriculum
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Create Faculty Support Resource
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Disseminate Nationally
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DOL & Health Information Management & Systems
Society (HIMSS)
INFORMATION BASED MEDICINE
LIFE SCIENCES
New Drugs & Diagnostics
Clinical Research
Clinical Care
Michael Svinte
IBM VP, Information Based Medicine May 18, 2005
Digitalization of Biology & Medicine
The impact of genomic discovery and
invention is now surfacing
noticeably in patient care
Founder, Institute for Systems Biology
&
Amgen
What’s a CC to Do?
Electronic Health Record
vs
Electronic Data Capture
WHERE IS THE IT TRAINING
NEED?
EHR
vs
EDC
Clinical vs Bio
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Electronic Data Capture
If We Train Them…
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Double Doc Block
LIFE SCIENCE INFORMATICS
Innovation
Clinical Operations
Bio Technology
patient admissions ● lab results ● electronic patient records
●picture archiving computer systems ● pharmacy tracking ●
physician order entry ● vendor selection ● system integration ●
clinical trials ● application validation ● telemedicine ● biological
computation ● research data management ● process tracking ●
manufacturing control data ● agricultural research management
Biomedical Expert Input
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Cross training
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Statistics
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Inductive thinking
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Imaginative thinking
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Basic scientific methodology
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Communication and presentation
Modular programs, not a 2 year degree
Microsoft:
Use Xbox
Technology
To Design
Curricula
INFORMATION
USER INTERACTION
PROCESSING
PRESENTATION LAYER
Where most of the growth in
IT jobs used to be
Where the growth in IT jobs
is shifting
Increasing component of
IT skills
Close to the technology
Intersection between IT and
information management
Much of it still resides in
research
TECHNOLOGY
Biotech/Biological
Research
(Bioinformatics)
Pharmaceutical
Research
(Clinical Trials)
Development of
Devices and Drug
Delivery Systems
Healthcare Delivery
(Therapy/Diagnostic
Management)
Healthcare
Information
Management
(Medical Informatics)
Information
Systems
and smart
devices
Data/
Information
repositories
Population/
Public Health
Informatics
Data/
Information
Processing
Information
Representation
and Interaction
Convergence Informatics
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Skill Standards & Curriculum Development
Bioinformaticist Level I
 Valadation Data Manager
 Clinical Trials Associate
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•Dissemination & Implementation Support
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New Work & Partnerships
• On-ramp High School Curricula
• Global Life Sciences Learning Center
• IT Learning Distribution Across Disciplines
Columbia University •
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute •
UW Genome Center •
THANK YOU
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Questions?
BCC Life Science Informatics Center of Excellence
Partner in the National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce
Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration
Grant AF144170460