BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "NIH/FAES Biomedical Computing Courses”

Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

DESCRIPTION: We will brainstorm about the development of semester-long evening courses in Biomedical Computing taught through the NIH Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (NIH/FAES) Graduate School http://www.faes.org/). FAES offers more than a hundred graduate level courses in a number of biomedical subjects. Many of the students and the faculty are drawn from the NIH community. Teaching these courses provides instructors with a number of benefits; an outlet to their teaching and mentoring needs, a way to sharpen their communication skills, motivation to update their knowledge in their field, a way to set up collaborations, and a way to look for new students or postdocs for their lab. In its 47th year, FAES would welcome the addition of high quality biomedical computing courses to its program. As part of this brainstorming session, we would like to explore topics that would be of general interest to biomedical scientists, such as those about various modern computational methodologies. We would also like to explore topics having immediate, direct, practical value regarding biomedical research. For example, a number of topics that come under the rubric of data mining could be taught in a single course in a practical, rather than theoretical manner. Please bring your ideas, dynamism, and networking interests and capabilities to this exciting session.

NIH CONTACT: Jim DeLeo, 301-496-3848 jdeleo@nih.gov

BCIG WEB SITE: www.nih-bcig.org

NIH VISITOR INFORMATION: http://www.nih.gov/about/visitor/

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm June 1, 2006

FACILITATORS: The Dean of the FAES Graduate School, Dr. Constance Noguchi and the FAES Executive Director, Dr. Krishna Balakrishnan will facilitate this meeting and provide information about how FAES courses are structured.