| Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS, Founder of Linux Medical News, Associate Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston’s School of Health Information Sciences
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When: Friday May 23rd, 2008 - 11AM to 1PM (Don’t come late, or you’ll miss something) Where: MD. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Faculty Center Conference Room — FC 1.2002 A complimentary lunch catered by the French Corner will be reserved if you RSVP Duke at (email addressed remove to protect the innocent. Contact me through fredtrotter.com if you want to get it.) Directions: To Medical Center http://www.tmc.edu/maps/map Garage 10 is on right side of map (Take MD Anderson Blvd off Holcombe Blvd). Park in Garage 10 which crosswalks to the hospital building. Take the parking elevator to the 3rd floor. Just beyond the ‘A’ elevators there is a sky/crosswalk that (there will be a security/police desk by the entrance to the crosswalk). The entrance to the Faculty Center building will be on your right once you cross Holcombe. Go through the revolving door, down the hallway to a bank of elevators. Take the elevators to the 1st floor. On the first floor, enter FC1.2000-SBC Telehealth Center FC1.2002 will be the first classroom on the right. |
| About the Topic:
The Evolution of Open Source in Medicine Where has health IT been? Where is it going? Where is it likely to end up and why? These and other questions might be answered at this talk. |
About the Speaker:Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS , Dr. Valdes is a Board Certified Psychiatrist with a twenty two year history of working in the healthcare IT arena. He is an associate professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston’s School of Health Information Sciences. He is the founder of Linux Medical News, and is a national expert on free and open source medical software and interoperability standards. Prior to medical school he worked for IBM and Compaq as a software and quality control engineer as well as his own software company. He completed medical school at Southwestern in Dallas (1998), residency training at the University of Texas at Houston Department of Psychiatry (2001). He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Houston (1990) and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M (1985). |
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