Dr. Steve Berger will be presenting GIDEON this weekend at the BIT’s 1st World Congress of Virus and Infections 2010 (WCVI-2010)  in Busan, Korea.

He will be giving the keynote speech entitled “Informatics and Decision Support in Clinical Virology: A Global Web-based Program“.

Time: 14:10, August 1, 2010 (Sunday)

Place: Room No. 201, 2nd Floor, Convention Hall, BEXCO

Abstract:

A Global Web-based System for Disease Simulation and Informatics in the Field of Geographic Medicine

Stephen A. Berger, M.D.

347 generic infectious diseases are distributed haphazardly in time and space; and are challenged by 342 drugs and vaccines. Over 3,000 pathogenic bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi have been described in human disease. An ongoing project for decision support and informatics will serve as a paradigm to demonstrate an approach to web-based systems for Geographic Medicine. The first module in the program generates ranked differential diagnoses based on signs, symptoms, laboratory tests, exposure history, country of acquisition and incubation period; and can be used to diagnose or simulate any infectious disease scenario. Additional capabilities include bioterrorism simulation and syndromic surveillance. The second module follows the epidemiology of individual diseases, including their global status and occurrence in each endemic country. As of 2010, this module contains 3 million words of text in 18,500 country-specific text notes; 32,095 graphs; 5,100 images (clinical, microscopic, life cycle, etc); 345 maps; 150,000 linked references; 10,200 outbreaks and 21,101 disease prevalence and serosurveys. The third module follows the pharmacology and usage of all anti-infective drugs and vaccines. The fourth module is designed to identify and characterize all species of bacteria, mycobacteria and yeasts. Application of such systems for use in diagnosis, surveillance and education will be discussed. Since all data in the program are generated at the server level from modular sources in electronic spread sheets, a subprogram has been designed to generate entire text-books (e-books) on the diseases of individual countries and diseases. At present, 411 such books (95,000 pages) have been generated – all of which will be updated yearly.

On Monday, November 8th, GIDEON’s medical director, Steve Berger, MD will be on the Global Access to Infectious Disease Information panel at the American Public Health Association (APHA) meeting in Denver, Colorado. Following that he will demonstrate GIDEON at a session entitled: Web-based system for informatics and decision support in geographic medicine.

Links to more information:

• Panel information
• Demonstration session details

If you’ll be there, join the session and say hi to Steve.

Steve will be presenting at the University of Chicago Medical Center this coming Monday. This would be a terrific opportunity to see a live demonstration of GIDEON. If you can’t make it, then you can always watch the online videos.

Title: GIDEON: A Global Web-based Program for Decision Support and Informatics in Infectious Diseases
Presenter: Dr. Steve Berger, Chief Medical Advisor, GIDEON Informatics
Date: Monday, May 19, 2008
Time: 2pm to 3pm
Location: Room W-632, University of Chicago Medical Center (6th floor)
5812 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Enter from the Surgery – Brain Research Pavilion
Maps are available near each elevator
Host: Dr. Younghee Lee

GIDEON will have a technology showcase at the 2008 Medical Library Association meeting in Chicago, IL on May 18. Dr. Steve Berger will be presenting. GIDEON demonstrations will also take place at the EBSCO booth.

Medical librarians, please mark your calendars:
Technology Showcase: GIDEON (aka How to compete with Dr. House)
Date: Sun, May 18, 2008
Time: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Exhibit Hall (Riverside Center)

And if you haven’t yet, book your hotel now. Rooms are going quickly.

GIDEON will be demonstrated with EBSCO at:

• Apr 19 – 21, 2007 – ACP (American College of Physicians), San Diego, CA
• Apr 25 – 29, 2007 – STFM (Soc of Teachers of Family Med) Annual Spring Conference, Chicago, IL
• May 19 – 22, 2007 – MLA (Medical Library Association), Philadelphia, PA
• May 28 – Jun 1, 2007 – CHLA (Canadian Health Library Association), Ottawa, ON
• Nov 10 – 14, 2007 – AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association), Chicago, IL