---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sun Life and Physical Sciences Users Group Meeting SunFLASH Vol 28 #20 April 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was asked to forward this message about an upcomming special interest group. Here it is. Hit d if you are not involved with the medical, biotechnology, and pharm/chem market segments :-) -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Susan.Miller@Corp.Sun.COM (Susan Lee Miller) Subject: SIGMA '91 Hello, My name is Susan Lee Miller and I am the Chairperson for SIGMA '91, the user's group meeting for the Life and Physical Sciences Group. This meeting is for users in the medical, biotechnology, and pharm/chem market segments. It will be held at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, San Francisco International Airport on the 16 & 17 of May, 1991. The agenda includes a renown speaker and author in the area of global economics from the Hoover Institution on the Stanford campus. He will discuss where we are as a planet economically, the disappearance of economic business boundaries internationally, with the direct cause being technology. He promises to be a dynamic and thought-provoking speaker. We have both practical and conceptual breakout sessions being presented by leaders in their fields of medicine, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals/ chemistry. Sun executives and specialists have been scheduled to brief the audience regarding Sun directions as a corporation and specific technologies relating to Sun products. I have attached a copy of the preliminary agenda to this email message. I can be reached at 415-336-0353 or ext. 60353 if you have any questions. Please feel free to call. AGENDA SIGMA '91 ---------------- WEDNESDAY - MAY 15 ----------------- 6:00-9:00pm Registration - Hospitality Suite---Exec Level THURSDAY - MAY 16 ----------------- 7:30-9:00am Registration/Breakfast--------------Foyer 9:00-9:15am Welcome Kickoff - Robert Sepanloo---Anza III Manager Life & Physical Sciences Sun Microsystems 9:15-10:15am Keynote - Alvin Rabushka Ph.D-------Anza I Hoover Institution - Stanford University Liberty, Electrons, and Prosperity 10:15-10:30am Coffee Break----------------------Foyer 10:30-11:15am Breakout session #1 1 "PACS - Picture Archiving Computer System" Cathryn M. Burzik - Program Manager Image & Information Management Health Sciences Division, Eastman Kodak 2 "Clinical Information System on UNIX" Rajiv Kapur, M.D. - Georgetown Medical Center 3 "DNA Sequencing Methods" Douglas Brutlag, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry Stanford University School of Medicine 4 "Molecular Modeling in the UNIX Environment" Phil Cohen, Ph.D. - Director of Research Computing Research Institute of Scripps Clinic 11:15-12:00N Breakout session #2 1 "Portable Software for Medical Imaging Analysis" Marilyn Noz, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Radiology New York Universtiy 2 "Expert Systems: Challenges to Success" Janet McLaughlin - Project Manager Knowledge Based Systems Knowledge Data Systems, Inc. 3 "Clinical Research & Product Development on UNIX Workstations" Alan Friedman - Senior Systems Specialist Amgen, Inc. 4 "Digital 3D Microscopy" David Clapham, M.D. - Department of Pharmacology Mayo Clinic 12:00-1:15pm Lunch - Election Officers----------Anza II 1:15-2:00pm General Session - James C. Blaschke-------Anza III Director Technical Markets Sun Microsystems 2:00-2:45pm Breakout session #3 1 "Magnetic Source Imaging, a New Diagnostic Modality" Leslie Ferrini - Biomagnetic Technologies, Inc. 2 "HL7 - Health Level 7" Donald Simborg, M.D. - Bell Atlantic Health Systems 3 "Biotechnology Topic" Ernie Retzel, Ph.D. - University of Minnesota 4 "Pharmaceutical/Chemistry Topic" TBA 2:45-3:30pm Breakout session #4 1 "Medical Imaging Topic" John George, Ph.D. - National Labs 2 "Clinical Information Systems in Intensive Care" Adam Seiver, M.D. - Veterans Administration Medical Center 3 "Inside GenBank, Database for the Human Genome Project" Tania Broveak - Product Marketing Specialist Intelligenetics, Inc. 4 "Pharmaceutical/Chemistry Topic" TBA 3:30-3:45pm Coffee Break------------------------Foyer 3:45-4:30pm Breakout session #5 1 "Brain Project" Ron Kikinis, M.D. - Brigham and Womens (Harvard) 2 "End User Workstations in Healthcare" Bob Beck, M.D. - Oregon Health Sciences University 3 "Biotechnology Topic" TBA 4 "Pharmaceutical/Chemistry Topic" TBA 7:30am-4:30pm Exhibit Room----------------------Anza I 6:30-9:30pm Cocktail/Reception------------------Anza II FRIDAY - MAY 17 --------------- 8:00-9:00am Special Breakfast Officers/Advisory Breakfast General--------------------Foyer 9:00-10:00am SUN Executive - SUN Directions------Anza III UNIX Futures 10:00-10:15am SIGMA update - Kenneth A. Marks---Anza III Medical Market Segment Manager Sun Microsystems 10:15-10:30am Coffee Break-----------------------Foyer 10:30-11:15am Breakout session #6 1 "Neuroimaging Research Applications in Psychiatric Disorders" Kelvin O. Lim, M.D. - Director of Research Operations Mental Health Clinical Research Center Stanford University 2 "The Emergence of a New Generation in Hospital Information Systems Architecture" Aldo Zini - V.P. Research and Development Healthcare Affiliated Services, Inc. 3 "RNA Folod Prediction Techniques" Ahmad Waleh, Ph.D. - President Applied Sciences Consultants, Inc. 4 "Pharmaceutical/Chemistry Topic" TBA 11:15-12:00N Breakout session #7 1 "Volume & Surface Area Calculations from Tomographic Medical Images" Jack Lancaster, Ph.D. - Associate Professor Department Radiology University of Texas, Health Sciences Center San Antonio 2 "Distributed Healthcare Information Systems" Sam Caples, M.D. - St. Francis Hospital 3 "Biotechnology Topic" Walt Panko, Ph.D. - Title University of Michigan 4 "Pharmaceutical/Chemistry Topic" TBA 12:00-1:15pm Lunch - Advisory Panel--------------Anza II 1:15-3:45pm General session - SUN Technology-----Anza III 1 "Emerging World Standard for Imaging Processing" William Pratt, Ph.D. - SUN Microsystems 2 "Multi-media Using UNIX Technology" Eileen McGinnis - SUN Microsystems 3 "Server Strategy" Doug Kaewert - SUN Microsystems 4 "Imaging on SUN Workstations" Doug Schiff - SUN Microsystems 5 "Graphics Strategy" Brian Croll - SUN Microsystems 8:00am-3:30pm Exhibit room------------------------Anza I ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. 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