Symposium: Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health and Health Services:
------------------Research and Funding Directions
Leaders: Tom Horan, Bradford Hesse, and Bill Chismar

This symposium will bring together researchers and representatives
from major funding agencies and organizations to address the
question: What are specific cyberinfrastructure requirements and
research opportunities to make significant advances in public health
and health services?

Since the publication of the "Atkins Report" in 2003, there has been
a burgeoning interest in the use of informatics across disciplines
such as health care.  Moreover, efforts such as the American Health
Information Community (AHIC) have spearheaded the advancement of
Health IT in both public health and health services domains.  This
symposium will feature a panel of researchers and funders who will
discuss developments, with special emphasis on four topics: smoking
cessation, obesity, health services, and health disparities.   The
goal of the symposium is to identify key areas of alignment between
research directions and funding priorities.

Agenda [Click to download]

Tom Horan (tom.horan@cgu.edu) serves as Executive Director of the
Claremont Information and Technology Institute (CITI) and Associate
Professor in the School of Information Systems and Technology. As
director of CITI, he is responsible for directing a wide range of
applied technology research projects. His own area of specialization
is in the development and deployment of advanced information
technologies and policies, including intelligent transportation
systems (ITS) and advanced telecommunications systems. He is widely
recognized as a national authority on this subject, and has led a
number of studies and consultations on the design and deployment of
digital and sustainable communities.   He teaches graduate courses
irelating to planning and evaluation of digital networks and
community design. Prior to joining Claremont Graduate University, Dr.
Horan spent seven years in the Washington, D.C. area. From 1992-94,
Dr. Horan was a Senior Fellow at George Mason University and from
1988-1992, Dr. Horan was a Senior Analyst at the U.S. General
Accounting Office (GA0).

Bradford Hesse (hesseb@mail.nih.gov) is Chief of the Health
Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the National Cancer
Institute (NCI).  Trained as a psychologist, Dr. Hesse has spent most
of his career working to improve the ways in which mediated
communication environments can be utilized to support behaviors in
positive ways.  His work has taken him into the areas of
human-computer interaction, medical informatics, health psychology,
media psychology, interpersonal communication, health communication,
and artificial intelligence.  Dr. Hesse currently serves as program
director for the Health Information National Trends Survey (a
biennial survey of adults' use of health information technologies),
the Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research, and a rich
portfolio of basic science communication projects and grants. Dr.
Hesse also serves in an advisory capacity for the NCI's User Centered
Informatics Research laboratory, and is a standing member of the
American Psychological Association's Electronic Resources Advisory
Committee.

William Chismar (chismar@hawaii.edu) is Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa,
Professor of Information Technology, and Track Chair for the HICSS
Information Technology in Health Care track.  Professor Chismar has
been with the University of Hawaii at Manoa since 1986, specializing
in the organizational impacts of information technology. He has
taught courses in ethics, management of information systems, and
medical informatics. His current research focuses on the economic
evaluation and adoption of hospital information systems, the adoption
of electronic medical record systems, and the use of the Internet in
pediatrics.