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10.00 - 12.00 Get-together for EAHIL Conference First-timers
First-timers meet outside Finlandia Hall at 9.30
10.00 - 12.00 EAHIL SIG-Meetings
12.00 - 15.00 EAHIL Council Meeting | Meeting Rooms 22 - 23
15.00 - 16.00 Opening Ceremony | Congress Hall A
The 11th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Helsinki, Finland
23rd - 28th June 2008
"Towards a New Information Space - Innovations and Renovations"
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- 15.00 - 15.05
Merja Jauhiainen, Pirjo Rajakiili
Chair of LOC, Chair of IPC
Welcome to EAHIL Conference
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- 15.05 - 15.15
Suzanne Bakker
President of EAHIL
Welcome to EAHIL Conference
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- 15.15 - 15.30
Sari Sarkomaa
Minister of Education and Science
Opening Words of the EAHIL Conference
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- 15.30 - 16.00
Leena Peltonen-Palotie
Professor, Head of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute, UK;
Research director, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM, University of Helsinki and
National Public Health Institute, Finland
Opening Speech
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16.00 - 17.00 Opening of Exhibition and Poster Exhibition
18.00 - 19.30 Welcome Reception at the City Hall
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Professor, Head of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute, UK;
Research director, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM, University of Helsinki and National Public Health Institute, Finland
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- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
M.D., Ph.D. Student, Collagen Research Unit , University of Oulu, Finland 1973 - 1976
Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry ,Rutgers Medical School, NJ, USA 1978 - 1980
Acting Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Oulu, Finland 1981 - 1984
Senior Scientist of The Academy of Finland, Recombinant DNA Laboratory, University of Helsinki 1985 - 1986
Head of the Laboratory, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Public Health Institute, Finland 1987 - 1991
Professor of Molecular Biology, Director of the Molecular Biology Program, National Public Health Institute 1991 - 1994
Professor, University of Helsinki and National Public Health Institute 1995 - 1998
Chairman and Professor of Department of Human Genetics, UCLA 1998 - 2002
Director, the Center of Excellence of Complex Disease Genetics 2000 -
Professor of Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki and National Public Health Institute, Finland 2002 - 2003
Academy Professor, the Academy of Finland 2003 - 2007
Co-ordinator, The Nordic Center of Excellence in Disease Genetics 2004 -
Visiting Professor, the Broad Institute, MIT & Harvard, University of Cambridge, MA, USA 2005 -
Research director, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM, University of Helsinki and National Public Health Institute, Finland 2007 -
Head of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute, UK 2007 -
ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND Ph.D. THESIS SUPERVISION:
463 original publications and 74 review articles in international scientific journals and books. Supervised 69 Ph.D. theses.
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- ANNE BRICE
Associate Director of the NHS National Knowledge Service, Oxford, UK
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
After qualifying in 1983 Anne worked in the University of London, then as Regional Librarian in the Borders Health Board, Scotland. In 1995 she was appointed as Librarian at the Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford, funded by NHS R&D to develop Finding the Evidence teaching programmes, and to facilitate access to evidence for primary care staff. She moved to the post of Assistant Director of the Health Care Libraries Unit, University of Oxford in 1996 with responsibility for co-ordinating and facilitating training, networking, and co-operation among the member libraries of the Health Libraries and Information Network. This post involved working closely with the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, and the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme. In 2002 she was seconded to the National Library for Health firstly as Specialist Libraries Development Manager, building knowledge networks and communities of practice around specialist health care domains, and later as Acting Head of Service. In her current post, she is responsible for liaison between the NHS National Knowledge Service and NHS Choices, a key service to support patients and the public make informed decisions about their health and well-being
Anne is currently helping to set up ThinkWell, an international network which aims to improve the health and well-being of citizens across the world by enabling them to make informed decisions about lifestyle, diet and health interventions through public-led health discussions, education and research, using the internet and the mass media as fundamental tools.
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- HEATHER TODD
Executive Manager, Engineering and Sciences Library Service
University of Queensland Library, Australia
Heather Todd has held a number of librarian positions in academic and government libraries. She is currently Executive Manager, Engineering and Sciences Library Service at the University of Queensland Library where she is responsible for 8 of the 14 branch libraries. She has overseen several library moves and has been involved in the design of library buildings. She is currently convenor of Health Libraries Australia and chair of the IFLA Health and Biosciences Library Section. Heather is also joint convenor of ICML2009 (International Congress on Medical Librarianship) that will be held in Brisbane in August/September 2009.
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- OLIVER OBST
Library Director
Branch Medical Library
University and Regional Library Münster,
University of Münster, Germany
1958 Born in Mönchengladbach, Germany, as son of Renate Dietzler, Librarian at the Public Library and great grandchild of Fritz Kerlé, former President of the German Association of Catholic Booksellers (so my profession was kind of predestined).
1977 Graduation from High School (Abitur) at Cusanus Gymnasium Erkelenz
1977-1984 Study of Biology at the RWTH Aachen University and the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. Diploma in the subject areas animal physiology, plant physiology, virology, and computer science
1984 Diploma thesis at the Institut of Biology III / Plant Physiology on the Host-Parasite-Interaction in the Wheat-Rust Fungus-Model
1985-1986 Civil Service at the Special School for the Physically and Mentally Handicapped, Aachen
1987-1991 Doctoral thesis (Dr.rer.nat.) at the Institute of Physiology of the Medical Faculty of the RWTH Aachen about the pathophysiological effect of the stress hormones epinephrine und norepinephrine. Assistant Lecturer in Cardiology.
1988-1993 Organisation and handling of clinical studies phase III and IV at the Center of Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases, Aachen
1991-1993 Traineeship in Library and Information Science at the Polytechnical University for Library Science and Documentation (FHBD) at Cologne. Thesis about the information needs of medical professionals
1993- Subject specialist at the University and Regional Library Münster
1996- Director of the Branch Library of Medicine of the ULB Münster
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- CHRISTINE L BORGMAN
Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies
Department of Information Studies
Graduate School of Education and Information Science
University of California Los Angeles, USA
Christine L. Borgman is Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies in the Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She obtained her MLS at the University of Pittsburgh and her Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University. Her research interests range over scholarly communication, eScience, data, library automation, networks, human-computer interaction, information seeking behavior, and bibliometrics, and she has published widely in these areas. She leads the data management team of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center based at UCLA. The team conducts research on scientific data practices and designs digital library services in support of those practices.
She has extensive international interests, having been a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute, a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Economic Sciences and at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, and a Scholar-in Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. She is a member of the U.S. National CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology), the Science Advisory Board to Microsoft Corporation, the Scientific Advisory Board to Thomson Scientific Publishing, the Advisory Board to the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery Public Policy Committee and is Member-at-Large (and former Chair) of Section T (Information, Computing, and Communication) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof. Borgman chairs the Task Force on Cyberlearning for the National Science Foundation. She is an elected Fellow of the AAAS. Her book, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), won the Best Information Science Book of the Year Award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology and has been translated into seven languages. Her new book, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, was published by the MIT Press in October, 2007.
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- EERO HYVÖNEN
Professor, Research Director
Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki, Finland
Eero Hyvönen is a professor of semantic media technology at the Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Media Technology, and a research director at the University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science. He directs the Semantic Computing Research Group SeCo *(http://www.seco.tkk.fi/) specializing on the Semantic Web. SeCo has created in the health domain a prototype of the national HealthFinland portal for publishing health promotion information on the semantic web, produced by different national health organizations (http://www.seco.tkk.fi/applications/tervesuomi/). The system is based on the national FinnONTO semantic web infrastructure (http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/finnonto/).
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- LOTTA HAGLUND
Head of Information and Public Relations, Karolinska Institutet University Library, Sweden
Lotta Haglund works as Head of Information and Public Relations at Karolinska Institutet University Library. The position involves marketing the library services to students, faculty and staff at Karolinska Institutet, as well as staff development, and management. Her main professional interests include marketing/communication, evidence based practice, pedagogy, and management. Lotta has a background in Archaeology, and holds a masters degree in Library and Information Science. She has worked in medical/health libraries since 1992, at Karolinska Institutet since 2000.
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