Travel Scholarship Opportunity for 5th Annual Ontology Conference

Published June 9, 2016 This content is archived.

Clinical Terminology: Shock and Awe

Date: September 7-8, 2016
Location: Ramada Inn, Amherst, NY

Four scholarships of $500 each will be awarded by the University at Buffalo Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) to graduate students and early career researchers (maximum of five years from doctoral degree) who are US citizens or permanent residents. Recipients will have the opportunity to present at the meeting. Instructions to apply for the travel scholarship can be found here. The application deadline is July 11, 2016.

You can find more info about the conference here.

The meeting will address the reality and potential of Electronic Health Record technology and of terminology standards such as SNOMED CT. Do such standards enable translational science? Do they support or inhibit research reproducibility? What approaches to patient data area needed to realize the vision of interoperability and data compatibility across the CTSA consortium?

This scholarship program is supported by National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) under award Number UL1TR001412. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of NIH.