Crimson Cell

Wilson, Bry, Murphy, Kohane, Churchill

Discussed progress on the Cell. Includes support for approved protocols and specimen details.

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Beth Karlson provided an overall review of RA epidemiology so as to compare to our i2b2 work. Among the interesting facts I learned: In the Nurse's Health Study only 6% of the self-reported cases of RA were validated by the expert reviewers. Described relative risk of smoking with regard to RA is approximately 1.4 and is an effect that take appears to only taper off with about 20 years of smoking cessation.

Planning for hands on i2b2 tutorial for AMIA NOW

Mendis, Wilson, Savova, Weber, Kohane, Churchill,

Discussed the content for a hands on tutorial for the upcoming AMIA NOW.

New members of the i2b2 team

Brian Wilson (bioinformatics and statistical genetics) and Guergana Savova (natural language processing) both from the Mayo Institute have just joined the i2b2 team. Welcome to both!