Bioinformatics Education: Training a New Generation of Professionals Patricia Dombrowski May 2005
Bellevue Community College 3 rd Largest Higher Ed in State 22, 000 students per quarter IT State Center of Excellence Microsoft’s Backyard
BELLEVUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Life Science Informatics Center Lives With Industry Breathes Workforce Development Skill Standards Curriculum Faculty Support
Regional & National Focus Groups Explore Emerging Job Descriptions Develop Skill Standards Industry Validation Expand Medical Informatics Curriculum Bridge to Bioinformatics BIOINFORMATICS 2004 – 2005 ●
● Develop Bioinformatics Curriculum Create Faculty Support Resource Disseminate Nationally DOL & Health Information Management & Systems Society (HIMSS) BIOINFORMATICS 2005 – 2006
INFORMATION BASED MEDICINE LIFE SCIENCES New Drugs & Diagnostics Clinical Research Clinical Care Michael Svinte IBM VP, Information Based Medicine May 18, 2005
Digitalization of Biology & Medicine The impact of genomic discovery and invention is now surfacing noticeably in patient care Founder, Institute for Systems Biology & Amgen
What’s a CC to Do? Electronic Health Record vs Electronic Data Capture
WHERE IS THE IT TRAINING NEED? EHR vs EDC
Clinical vs Bio Electronic Data Capture
If We Train Them… Double Doc Block
Innovation patient admissions ● lab results ● electronic patient records ● picture archiving computer systems ● pharmacy tracking ● physician order entry ● vendor selection ● system integration ● clinical trials ● application validation ● telemedicine ● biological computation ● research data management ● process tracking ● manufacturing control data ● agricultural research management Bio Technology Clinical Operations LIFE SCIENCE INFORMATICS
Biomedical Expert Input Cross training Statistics Inductive thinking Imaginative thinking Basic scientific methodology Communication and presentation Modular programs, not a 2 year degree Microsoft: Use Xbox Technology To Design Curricula
Data/ Information Processing Information Representation and Interaction Information Systems and smart devices Data/ Information repositories Biotech/Biological Research (Bioinformatics) Pharmaceutical Research (Clinical Trials) Development of Devices and Drug Delivery Systems Healthcare Delivery (Therapy/Diagnostic Management) Healthcare Information Management (Medical Informatics) Population/ Public Health Informatics
Convergence Informatics Skill Standards & Curriculum Development Bioinformaticist Level I Valadation Data Manager Clinical Trials Associate Dissemination & Implementation Support
New Work & Partnerships On-ramp High School Curricula Global Life Sciences Learning Center IT Learning Distribution Across Disciplines Columbia University Seattle Biomedical Research Institute UW Genome Center
THANK YOU Questions? BCC Life Science Informatics Center of Excellence Partner in the National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration Grant AF