Meeting program

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - What is it?
8:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00–12:30

Session 1 — Nature and Causality: Metric and Logic

  • Chair: David Silver (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratories)
  • Physical Law: Facts and Evidence
  • General Principles of Monitoring
  • Quantifying Safety Margins and Uncertainties
12:30 Lunch
14:00–18:30

Session 2 — Complexity and Uncertainty: Markers and Signatures 

  • Chair: George Mihalas (European Federation of Medical Informatics)
  • Representation: Symptoms, Signs, Symbols
  • Recognition: Normality, Exception, Adversity
  • Abstraction: Measurement, Computation, Communication
19:00 Dinner
Friday, February 22, 2008 - What can be done about it?
8:00 Breakfast
9:00–12:30

Session 3 — Adverse Response: Identification and Mitigation

  • Chair: Wayne K. Hindmarsh (University of Toronto, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy)
  • Dose, Time, Susceptibility
  • Adverse Event Recording and Reporting Systems
  • Advancing Safety Science in the Absence of Experimental Verification
12:30 Lunch
14:00–17:30

Session 4 — Adverse Response: Monitoring and Mentoring Technologies 

  • Chair: Radu Leca (Biosign Technologies)
  • Mathematical Concepts
  • Logical Systems
  • Demonstration: Autonomous Health Monitoring Network
17:30–18:30 Review Session
19:00
  • Gala Dinner & Closing Remark:
  • “A Farewell to Harms - Patient Safety and the Test Question in Medicine”