As announced earlier this year, the viagra cialis online pharmacy pharmacy 2.0® conference – in 2008 and 2009 hosted in Toronto – goes global and will in 2010 be organized in Europe. The University of Twente (UT), the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMNC) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) will host Medicine 2.0 Congress (Medicine 2.0’10: 3rd World Congress on Social Media and Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine, and Biomedical Research) on November 29-30, 2010 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Medicine 2.0® 2010 will be supported by the core Medicine 2.0® team in cooperation with scientists from UT, UMNC and RIVM; the website will remain at http://www.medicine20congress.com, and the submission and dissemination process will remain centralized.
Medicine 2.0'10 will serve as an umbrella for REshape (Fall edition, UMNC) and the ‘Supporting health by technology’ (IIIrd edition) symposium series (University of Twente, RIVM). I am sure we will hear more from this capable Local Organizing Committee through this official blog and the Medicine 2.0 website (my personal role for this and future Medicine 2.0 Conferences is that of a conference series producer).
As of today, abstract submissions for the Medicine 2.0'10 congress in Masstricht are open.
As in previous years, we are very transparent and allow interested parties to track what is being submitted in real time through our RSS feed at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/med2submit (contains the last 10 submissions - slightly delayed). If you follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/medicine20) you can also see the titles of recently submitted abstracts. We hope that seeing the submissions over the next 6 weeks will motivate some people to also submit a presentation proposal.
The call for abstracts is on the Medicine 2.0 website at http://bit.ly/dCOIeT .
The second big news is that we have signed an agreement with the Local Organizing team at Stanford University, led by Larry Chu MD MS.
Yes, it's official: Stanford University will host the Medicine 2.0 congress in 2011, at the brand new Li-Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge Conference Center at the Stanford University School of Medicine (mark the dates: Sept 16 to Sept 18, 2011 - last day: workshops only). I am very excited not only because of the extremely capable local organizing committee and the location of being in the heart of Silicon Valley (and some good kiteboarding spots for me!), but also because of the association with many leading scientists in this field, including the Stanford Department of Medical Informatics, which is a leader in ontologies and knowledge-based approaches, so expect an additional emphasis on Web 3.0 in 2011 (but no, we are not renaming the conference series)!
For 2012 and beyond we are negotiating with future organizers, and we have expressions of interest from teams in Boston, New York, Barcelona, London, and Seoul, so Medicine 2.0 truly has gone global!
And another innovation: All Medicine 2.0 talks will be transcribed and (hopefully) PubMed indexed. As this is unprecedented we have to see what the NLM says to our proposal, but if accepted, it will be even more attractive and important for researchers and practitioners in the field to present at Medicine 2.0.
Finally, I am excited that the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) has renewed its commitment in supporting the conference series and will again sponsor the IMIA Medicine 2.0 Award.
Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH
Medicine 2.0 Conference Series Producer
