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'''Signs, Symptoms and Findings: First Steps Toward an Ontology of Clinical Phenotypes'''
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==Signs, Symptoms and Findings: First Steps Toward an Ontology of Clinical Phenotypes==
  
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'''Workshop organized by:''' Richard Scheuermann, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
 
  
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'''Sponsored by:''' National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program
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''Workshop organized by:''  
  
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'''Date:''' September 4-5, 2008
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[http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac/research/0,2357,16416,00.html Richard Scheuermann], University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
  
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'''Venue:''' Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Marriott [http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dfwap-dallas-fort-worth-airport-marriott/].
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[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ Barry Smith], National Center for Biomedical Ontology / University at Buffalo
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''Details with regard to discounted room rate will be sent to confirmed participants in due course.''
 
  
  
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'''Signs, Symptoms and Findings: First Steps Toward an Ontology of Clinical Phenotypes''' is funded by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant 1 U54 HG004028. Information on the National Centers for Biomedical Computing can be found at: [http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/bioinformatics].
 
  
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''Sponsored by:''
  
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[http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/home/home/research/ctsa University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program]
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'''Overview'''
 
  
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The goals of clinical and translational research are to achieve a better understanding of the pathogenesis of human disease in order to develop effective diagnostic, therapeutic and prevention strategies. Biomedical informatics can play an important role is supporting this research by facilitating the management, integration, analysis and exchange of data derived from and related to the research problems being studied. A key aspect of this support is to bring clarity, rigor and formalism to the representation of  
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[http://www.bioontology.org/ National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)]
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[http://www.leadhorsetech.com/LEAD_HORSE_TECHNOLOGIES/Home.html Lead Horse Technologies, Inc.]
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''Date:''
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September 3-4, 2008
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''Venue:''
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Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Marriott [http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dfwap-dallas-fort-worth-airport-marriott/].
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*To take advantage of discounted rate at the conference hotel, guest room reservations must be secured '''no later than August 15'''. See Workshop registration form for further details.
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*There is no participation fee. Continental breakfast and refreshments will be provided to all registered participants at no cost.
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This workshop is funded by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant 1 U54 HG004028, with support from the Clinical and Translational Science Award (1 U54 RR023468) and the Bioinformatics Integration Support Contract (1 N01 AI40076).
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Information on the National Centers for Biomedical Computing can be found at: [http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/bioinformatics].
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==Overview==
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The aims of clinical and translational research are to achieve a better understanding of the pathogenesis of human disease in order to develop effective diagnostic, therapeutic and prevention strategies. Biomedical informatics can play an important role in supporting this research by facilitating the management, integration, analysis and exchange of data derived from and related to the research problems being studied. A key aspect of this support is to bring clarity, rigor and formalism to the representation of  
  
 
::1. disease initiation, progression, pathogenesis, signs, symptoms, assessments, clinical and laboratory findings, disease diagnosis, treatment, treatment response and outcome, and  
 
::1. disease initiation, progression, pathogenesis, signs, symptoms, assessments, clinical and laboratory findings, disease diagnosis, treatment, treatment response and outcome, and  
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thus allowing the data to be more readily retrievable and shareable, and more able to serve in the support of algorithmic reasoning.
 
thus allowing the data to be more readily retrievable and shareable, and more able to serve in the support of algorithmic reasoning.
  
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==Goals==
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'''Goals'''
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The goals of the workshop are:
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*to utilize consistent ontological design and development principles to describe disease signs and symptoms, clinical and laboratory findings, and their interrelations.
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*to delineate the roles that signs, symptoms and findings play in both clinical patient management and in clinical research.
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*to develop a clear understanding and representation of the distinction between clinical and pre-clinical manifestations of signs, symptoms and findings.
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*to take first steps towards harmonizing the ontological representation of disease signs and symptoms and clinical and laboratory findings with existing and emerging standards in knowledge representation from the health informatics and bioinformatics communities
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*to explore incorporation of the results of this work into the CTSA Human Studies Metadata Repository framework
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==Agenda==
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'''Day 1: Wednesday, September 3''' (Room: Irving I-III, Lobby Level)
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8:30am - Registration and Continental Breakfast
  
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The tentative goals of the workshop will be to:
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9:00am - Opening remarks / Workshop goals (Richard Scheuermann)
  
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*Utilize consistent ontological design and development principles to describe disease signs and symptoms, clinical and laboratory findings, and their interrelations.
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9:15am - Session 1: Signs, symptoms and laboratory findings from a health care perspective (Scheuermann, moderator)
  
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*Delineate the roles that signs, symptoms and findings play in both clinical patient management and in clinical research.
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::: Combining clinical exam and laboratory findings in the rheumatology clinic [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/karp.ppt slides] (David Karp)
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::: Clinical signs and findings in neonatology [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/JAMES.ppt slides] (Andrew James)
  
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*Develop a clear understanding and representation of the distinction between clinical and pre-clinical manifestations of signs, symptoms and findings.
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10:30am - Refreshment Break
  
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*Take first steps towards harmonizing the ontological representation of disease signs and symptoms and clinical and laboratory findings with existing and emerging standards in knowledge representation from the health informatics and bioinformatics communities
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10:45am - Session 2: Ontology approaches to describing the clinical phenotype [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/SMITH.ppt slides] (Smith, moderator)
  
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*Explore incorporation of the results of this work into the CTSA Human Studies Metadata Repository framework
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::: Reasoning with clinical exam and laboratory findings: The case of myocardial infarction [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/ARABANDI.pdf slides] (Sivaram Arabandi)
  
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12:00pm - Buffet Lunch (Arlington Room, Lower Level), '''''Provided by the generous support of''''' [http://www.leadhorsetech.com/LEAD_HORSE_TECHNOLOGIES/Home.html '''''Lead Horse Technologies, Inc.''''']
  
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'''Prospective Participants'''
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1:00pm - Session 3: Standardization of clinical and laboratory data in the context of clinical and translational research (Jaffe, moderator)
  
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It is our goal to have the following communities represented: NCBO, CTSA, HL7, CDISC, SNOMED, OBO, NIH
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::: Data standards from patient care to clinical and translational research: The CTSA perspective [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/CHUTE.ppt slides] (Chris Chute)
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::: Representation of clinical and laboratory findings in the CDISC SDTM [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/KISLER-WALKER.ppt slides] (Bron Kisler and Gary Walker)
  
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Jonas Almeida (M.D. Anderson)
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3:00pm - Refreshment Break
  
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Brian Athey (Michigan)
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3:30pm - Session 3 continued (Ruttenberg, moderator)
  
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Yasser alSafadi (Philips Medical Informatics)
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::: The future of SNOMED-CT in the representation of clinical findings [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/SPACKMAN.ppt slides] (Kent Spackman)
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:::      Problems with current approaches to clinical data [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/HOGAN.ppt slides] (William Hogan)
  
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Elmer Bernstam (Houston)
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5:30pm - Reception (Grand Prairie Room, Lower Level), '''''Provided by the generous support of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation SemanticDB'''''
  
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Olivier Bodenreider (NLM)
 
  
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Anita Burgun (Rennes)
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'''Day 2: Thursday, September 4''' (Room: Irving I-III, Lobby Level)
  
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Chris Chute (Mayo)
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8:30am - Continental Breakfast
  
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Jim Cimino (NIH)
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9:00am - Session 4: Proposals for unification of standard terminologies for the representation ‘sign’, ‘symptom’, ‘finding’ and related terms (Lewis, moderator)
  
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Jennifer Fostel (NIEHS)
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::: Laboratory data and metadata in laboratory information systems [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/BURGUN.ppt slides] (Anita Burgun)
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::: An ontology-based approach for connecting disease pathogenesis with clinical/laboratory data [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/SCHEUERMANN.ppt slides] (Richard Scheuermann)
  
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Herb Hagler (U.T. Southwestern)
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10:30am - Refreshment Break
  
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Carol Hamilton (RTI)
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10:45am - Session 5: How consistent ontological design and development principles can lead to enhanced representation of signs, symptoms, and clinical and laboratory finding (Smith, moderator)
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:::    PATO and Phenote: From model organism phenotypes to clinical medicine [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/08/phenotype/LEWIS.ppt slides] (Suzanna Lewis)
  
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Bill Hersch (Oregon)
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12:00pm - Lunch Break
  
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William Hogan (Pittsburgh)
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1:00pm - Session 6: Strategies to achieve convergence of ontologies, vocabularies and data structures in representing signs, symptoms, and clinical and laboratory findings (Scheuermann, moderator)
  
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David Karp (U.T. Southwestern)
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2:30pm - Refreshment Break
  
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Warren Kibbe (Northwestern)
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2:45pm - Session 6 (continued)
  
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Bron Kisler (CDISC)
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4:00pm - Close
  
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Isaac Kohane (Harvard)
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==Summary of Workshop==
  
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Harold Lehmann (Johns Hopkins)
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* Summary [http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG/Meetings/2008-10-02_Conference_Call?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=NCBO_clinical_phenotype_ont.pdf slides] (Kei Cheung)  
  
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Suzi Lewis (Berkeley)
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==Participants==
  
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Yves Lussier (Chicago)
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Clem McDonald (NLM)
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*Jonas Silva Almeida (MD Anderson Cancer Center / University of Texas)
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*Sivaram Arabandi (Heart & Vascular Institute / Cleveland Clinic)
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*John M. Armstrong (Lead Horse Technologies, Inc.)
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*Robert Arp (National Center for Biomedical Ontology / University at Buffalo)
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*Elmer V. Bernstam (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)
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*Bruce Bray (Dept of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah)
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*Anita Burgun (Université de Rennes)
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*Kei-Hoi Cheung (Senselab / Yale Center for Medical Informatics)
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*Christopher G. Chute (National Center for Biomedical Ontology / Mayo Clinic)
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*Paolo Ciccarese (Mass General Hospital / Harvard Medical School)
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*Timothy W. Clark (Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease / Harvard Medical School)
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*Gianluca Colombo (University of Milano-Bicocca, DISCo)
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*Tommie G. Curtis (SAIC, NCICB Contractor)
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*Amar K. Das (Center for Biomedical Informatics Research / Stanford University)
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*Louis J. Goldberg (Ontology Research Group / University at Buffalo)
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*Herb Hagler (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)
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*William Hogan (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
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*Zhang-Zhi Hu (PRO / Georgetown University Medical Center)
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*Charles Jaffe (Health Level 7, Inc. (HL7))
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*Andrew G. James (Division of Neonatology, The Hospital for Sick Children / University of Toronto)
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*David Karp (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)
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*Bron Kisler (CDISC)
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*Megan Kong (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)
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*Suzanna Lewis (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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*Daniele Merico (NEUROWEB / University of Toronto & University of Milano-Bicocca, DISCo)
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*Pradeep Mutalik (Yale Center for Medical Informatics)
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*Chimezie Ogbuji (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
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*John Quinn (Health Level 7, Inc. (HL7))
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*Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons / Neurocommons)
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*Neil Sarkar (Marine Biological Laboratory)
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*Richard Scheuermann (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)
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*Lynn M. Schriml (Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland)
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*Barry Smith (National Center for Biomedical Ontology / University at Buffalo)
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*Kent A. Spackman (International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization)
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*Larry Streepy (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
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*Gary Walker (Quintiles)
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*Ashley Xia (NIAID / NIH)
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*W. Jim Zheng (Biomedical Ontology Research Group / Medical University of South Carolina)
  
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Chris Mungall (Berkeley)
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In addition to NCBO and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the following communities are represented: CTSA, HL7, CDISC, OBO, SNOMED, and the NIH.
  
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Meredith Nahm (Duke)
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==Suggested Background Reading==
  
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Alan Rector (Manchester)
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[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/continua.pdf Continua in Biological Systems], Stefan Schulz and Ingvar Johansson, The Monist, 2007; 90(4), 499-522.
  
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Daniel Rubin (Stanford)
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[http://nuke.neurowebkc.eu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=opFTkenwCz0%3D&tabid=66&mid=435 NEUROWEB Project]: From Clinically-Based Phenotypes to Genomics Integration
  
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Stefan Schulz (Freiberg)
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[http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v25/n11/pdf/nbt1346.pdf OBO Foundry]: Coordinated Evolution of Ontologies to Support Biomedical Data Integration
  
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Ida Sim (UCSF)
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[http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/S4/S3 Ontology-Guided Data Preparation for Discovering Genotype-Phenotype Relationships]
  
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Barry Smith (Buffalo)
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[http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1781118 PhenomicDB]: A New Cross-Species Genotype/Phenotype Resource
  
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Kent Spackman (Oregon)
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[http://org.buffalo.edu/RTU/papers/WhatIsaDiagnosis.ppt What is a Diagnosis?], Werner Ceusters
  
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[http://bmir.stanford.edu/file_asset/index.php/1338/BMIR-2008-1302.pdf Using an Integrated Ontology and Information Model for Querying and Reasoning about Phenotypes: The Case of Autism], Samson W. Tu, Lakshika Tennakoon, Martin O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, and Amar Das.
  
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[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Williams_Disease.pdf The Factory Model of Disease], Neil Williams, The Monist, 2007; 90(4): 555-584.
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'''Tentative Agenda'''
 
  
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Day 1
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[http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1948102 Human disease classification in the postgenomic era], J. Loscalzo, I. Kohane and A.-L. Barabasi
  
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8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
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==Useful Links==
  
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• Session 1 - Health care and clinical research perspective
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[http://obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=mammalian_phenotype Mammalian Phenotype Ontology]
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o Presentations by local clinicians and clinical investigators
 
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o Presentations of selected CTSA use cases
 
  
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• Session 2 - Brief overview of ontology formalisms
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[http://www.bioontology.org/ncbo/faces/index.xhtml NCBO Bioportal]
  
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• Session 3 - Brief presentations of existing and emerging standards regarding the use of terminologies related to signs, symptoms and findings
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[http://obofoundry.org OBO Foundry]
  
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• Session 4 - Proposals for ontology-based clarification and unification of ‘sign’, ‘symptom’, ‘finding’ and related terms with the goal of achieving improved understanding of what they are and how they relate to each other
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[http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/PATO:Main_Page Phenotypic Quality Ontology]
  
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==Proposed Terms and Definitions==
  
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• Session 5 - Working session to utilize consistent ontological design and development principles to describe disease signs and symptoms, clinical and laboratory finding, and their interrelations
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* [[Clinical Phenotypes | Toward an Ontological Treatment of the Initiation, Realization, Recognition, and Representation of Disease]]
  
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• Session 6 - Discussion of strategies to achieve convergence between the ontological representation of disease signs and symptoms and clinical and laboratory findings with the existing and emerging standards in knowledge representation from the health informatics and bioinformatics communities
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==Follow-Up Meeting 2009==
  
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4:00pm Close
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[http://bimib.disco.unimib.it/index.php/SSFW09 Signs, Symptoms and Findings: Towards an Ontology for Clinical Phenotypes]

Latest revision as of 07:44, 7 April 2009

Signs, Symptoms and Findings: First Steps Toward an Ontology of Clinical Phenotypes

Workshop organized by:

Richard Scheuermann, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

Barry Smith, National Center for Biomedical Ontology / University at Buffalo


Sponsored by:

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program

National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)

Lead Horse Technologies, Inc.


Date:

September 3-4, 2008


Venue:

Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Marriott [1].

  • To take advantage of discounted rate at the conference hotel, guest room reservations must be secured no later than August 15. See Workshop registration form for further details.
  • There is no participation fee. Continental breakfast and refreshments will be provided to all registered participants at no cost.

This workshop is funded by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant 1 U54 HG004028, with support from the Clinical and Translational Science Award (1 U54 RR023468) and the Bioinformatics Integration Support Contract (1 N01 AI40076).

Information on the National Centers for Biomedical Computing can be found at: [2].

Overview

The aims of clinical and translational research are to achieve a better understanding of the pathogenesis of human disease in order to develop effective diagnostic, therapeutic and prevention strategies. Biomedical informatics can play an important role in supporting this research by facilitating the management, integration, analysis and exchange of data derived from and related to the research problems being studied. A key aspect of this support is to bring clarity, rigor and formalism to the representation of

1. disease initiation, progression, pathogenesis, signs, symptoms, assessments, clinical and laboratory findings, disease diagnosis, treatment, treatment response and outcome, and
2. the interrelations between these distinct entities both in patient management and in clinical research,

thus allowing the data to be more readily retrievable and shareable, and more able to serve in the support of algorithmic reasoning.

Goals

The goals of the workshop are:

  • to utilize consistent ontological design and development principles to describe disease signs and symptoms, clinical and laboratory findings, and their interrelations.
  • to delineate the roles that signs, symptoms and findings play in both clinical patient management and in clinical research.
  • to develop a clear understanding and representation of the distinction between clinical and pre-clinical manifestations of signs, symptoms and findings.
  • to take first steps towards harmonizing the ontological representation of disease signs and symptoms and clinical and laboratory findings with existing and emerging standards in knowledge representation from the health informatics and bioinformatics communities
  • to explore incorporation of the results of this work into the CTSA Human Studies Metadata Repository framework

Agenda

Day 1: Wednesday, September 3 (Room: Irving I-III, Lobby Level)

8:30am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am - Opening remarks / Workshop goals (Richard Scheuermann)

9:15am - Session 1: Signs, symptoms and laboratory findings from a health care perspective (Scheuermann, moderator)

Combining clinical exam and laboratory findings in the rheumatology clinic slides (David Karp)
Clinical signs and findings in neonatology slides (Andrew James)

10:30am - Refreshment Break

10:45am - Session 2: Ontology approaches to describing the clinical phenotype slides (Smith, moderator)

Reasoning with clinical exam and laboratory findings: The case of myocardial infarction slides (Sivaram Arabandi)

12:00pm - Buffet Lunch (Arlington Room, Lower Level), Provided by the generous support of Lead Horse Technologies, Inc.

1:00pm - Session 3: Standardization of clinical and laboratory data in the context of clinical and translational research (Jaffe, moderator)

Data standards from patient care to clinical and translational research: The CTSA perspective slides (Chris Chute)
Representation of clinical and laboratory findings in the CDISC SDTM slides (Bron Kisler and Gary Walker)

3:00pm - Refreshment Break

3:30pm - Session 3 continued (Ruttenberg, moderator)

The future of SNOMED-CT in the representation of clinical findings slides (Kent Spackman)
Problems with current approaches to clinical data slides (William Hogan)

5:30pm - Reception (Grand Prairie Room, Lower Level), Provided by the generous support of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation SemanticDB


Day 2: Thursday, September 4 (Room: Irving I-III, Lobby Level)

8:30am - Continental Breakfast

9:00am - Session 4: Proposals for unification of standard terminologies for the representation ‘sign’, ‘symptom’, ‘finding’ and related terms (Lewis, moderator)

Laboratory data and metadata in laboratory information systems slides (Anita Burgun)
An ontology-based approach for connecting disease pathogenesis with clinical/laboratory data slides (Richard Scheuermann)

10:30am - Refreshment Break

10:45am - Session 5: How consistent ontological design and development principles can lead to enhanced representation of signs, symptoms, and clinical and laboratory finding (Smith, moderator)

PATO and Phenote: From model organism phenotypes to clinical medicine slides (Suzanna Lewis)

12:00pm - Lunch Break

1:00pm - Session 6: Strategies to achieve convergence of ontologies, vocabularies and data structures in representing signs, symptoms, and clinical and laboratory findings (Scheuermann, moderator)

2:30pm - Refreshment Break

2:45pm - Session 6 (continued)

4:00pm - Close

Summary of Workshop

Participants

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  • Jonas Silva Almeida (MD Anderson Cancer Center / University of Texas)
  • Sivaram Arabandi (Heart & Vascular Institute / Cleveland Clinic)
  • John M. Armstrong (Lead Horse Technologies, Inc.)
  • Robert Arp (National Center for Biomedical Ontology / University at Buffalo)
  • Elmer V. Bernstam (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)
  • Bruce Bray (Dept of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah)
  • Anita Burgun (Université de Rennes)
  • Kei-Hoi Cheung (Senselab / Yale Center for Medical Informatics)
  • Christopher G. Chute (National Center for Biomedical Ontology / Mayo Clinic)
  • Paolo Ciccarese (Mass General Hospital / Harvard Medical School)
  • Timothy W. Clark (Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease / Harvard Medical School)
  • Gianluca Colombo (University of Milano-Bicocca, DISCo)
  • Tommie G. Curtis (SAIC, NCICB Contractor)
  • Amar K. Das (Center for Biomedical Informatics Research / Stanford University)
  • Louis J. Goldberg (Ontology Research Group / University at Buffalo)
  • Herb Hagler (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)
  • William Hogan (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
  • Zhang-Zhi Hu (PRO / Georgetown University Medical Center)
  • Charles Jaffe (Health Level 7, Inc. (HL7))
  • Andrew G. James (Division of Neonatology, The Hospital for Sick Children / University of Toronto)
  • David Karp (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)
  • Bron Kisler (CDISC)
  • Megan Kong (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)
  • Suzanna Lewis (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  • Daniele Merico (NEUROWEB / University of Toronto & University of Milano-Bicocca, DISCo)
  • Pradeep Mutalik (Yale Center for Medical Informatics)
  • Chimezie Ogbuji (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
  • John Quinn (Health Level 7, Inc. (HL7))
  • Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons / Neurocommons)
  • Neil Sarkar (Marine Biological Laboratory)
  • Richard Scheuermann (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)
  • Lynn M. Schriml (Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland)
  • Barry Smith (National Center for Biomedical Ontology / University at Buffalo)
  • Kent A. Spackman (International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization)
  • Larry Streepy (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
  • Gary Walker (Quintiles)
  • Ashley Xia (NIAID / NIH)
  • W. Jim Zheng (Biomedical Ontology Research Group / Medical University of South Carolina)

In addition to NCBO and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the following communities are represented: CTSA, HL7, CDISC, OBO, SNOMED, and the NIH.

Suggested Background Reading

Continua in Biological Systems, Stefan Schulz and Ingvar Johansson, The Monist, 2007; 90(4), 499-522.

NEUROWEB Project: From Clinically-Based Phenotypes to Genomics Integration

OBO Foundry: Coordinated Evolution of Ontologies to Support Biomedical Data Integration

Ontology-Guided Data Preparation for Discovering Genotype-Phenotype Relationships

PhenomicDB: A New Cross-Species Genotype/Phenotype Resource

What is a Diagnosis?, Werner Ceusters

Using an Integrated Ontology and Information Model for Querying and Reasoning about Phenotypes: The Case of Autism, Samson W. Tu, Lakshika Tennakoon, Martin O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, and Amar Das.

The Factory Model of Disease, Neil Williams, The Monist, 2007; 90(4): 555-584.

Human disease classification in the postgenomic era, J. Loscalzo, I. Kohane and A.-L. Barabasi

Useful Links

Mammalian Phenotype Ontology

NCBO Bioportal

OBO Foundry

Phenotypic Quality Ontology

Proposed Terms and Definitions

Follow-Up Meeting 2009

Signs, Symptoms and Findings: Towards an Ontology for Clinical Phenotypes

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