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Vimla L. Patel
Professional Invitations (Lectures, Seminars, Workshops)

2024 |2023 |2022 |2021 |2020 |2019 |2018 |2017 |2016 |2015 |2014 |2013

2012 |2011 |2010 |2009 |2008 |2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 |2003

2002 | 2001 | 2000 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993

1992 | 1991 | 1990 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983

2024

  • Invited talk on, Reducing cognitive load in clinical decision support systems, HL7 International group on EHRs and clinical burden, January 2024. 
  • Invited talk on Understanding Clinical Cognition’s Critical Role in the Future of Sustainable AI in Medicine in Clinical Translational Research Center, University of Buffalo, July 2024

2023

  • Invited talk on Cognitive challenges in the use of EHRs, HL7 International group on EHRs and clinical burden, Jan, 2023
  • Invited talk on Intelligent Systems in Medicine and Health: The Role of AI, BMI Seminar, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Feb., 2023
  • Presentation on "Buy low and sell high”: Pursuing groundbreaking and impactful research commitments, ACMI Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 23-26, 2023
  • Invited talk on Understanding clinical cognition’s critical role in the future of sustainable AI in medicine, at the 31st Annual Suddath Symposium Georgia Institute of Technology and the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 2023

2022

  • Keynote talk on Cognitive Informatics in Healthcare: Promises and Challenges at the NextGen Affordable Connected Healthcare and Challenges, as part of IEEE Nethealth workshop, COMSNET 2022, Bangalore, India, January 4, 2022
  • NYAM Book Night, Review of Intelligent Systems in Medicine and Health: The Role of AI (Springer Nature, Sept. 2022), Trevor A. Cohen, Vimla L. Patel, Edward H. Shortliffe (Eds)
  • Invited presentation on Medicine as Science: The Role of Hypothesis Generation, as part of the panel discussion, on Hypothesis generation in clinical research: challenges, opportunities, and role of AI, MIE, Nice, France, May, 2022
  • Invited panel discussion on Cognition and Evolution of AI in Medicine, as part of the panel on The Current Status of AI in Medicine : Is it Rebirth or an Evolution? MIE, Nice, France, May, 2022
  • Invited panel on Behavioral Science Ontologies and Open Science
  • , as part of the panel presentation on Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences, AMIA, 2022, Washington, DC
    • Member of the Panel on workshop on Analysis of Human Interactive Behavior for Improving Patient Safety and Clinician Burnout, AMIA, November, 2022

    2021

    • Understanding AI Systems for Clinical Practice: When Computation Meets Mind and Brain, AIMed [Artificial Intelligence in Medicine-US) Clinical Series , Surgery, ICU and Neurosciences, March 30-31st, 2021, Invited Keynote Speaker
    • Cognitive Informatics: Cognitive Science Meets Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Informatics 208 Seminar, Stanford Medicine, April 14, 2021
    • Improving Consideration of Social and Cognitive Behaviors in Advancing Informatics Technologies for Health Care, IIEEE EMBS Biomedical Informatics, Virtual Conference, July 28-30, 2021, Invited Keynote Speaker
    • Understanding and Supporting Human Decisions in the Context of Medicine: From Individuals to Teams, Climate School Conversation “From Climate to Health: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bridging Decisions across Scales, Columbia University, May 4, 2021
    • Augmenting Cognitive Capabilities and Intelligent Systems Support in Healthcare, a featured speaker in the annual seminar series at the University of Melbourne, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health. Dec 9, 2021
    • Cognitive Informatics: Cognitive Science Meets Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Informatics seminar series on core topics in clinical informatics, Spring Quarter (3/31/21 - 6/2/21), Stanford University
    • Biomedical Informatics and the Science of Cognition: 2021-22 interdisciplinary seminar series in Cognitive and Computer Science that I organize at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Dec10, 2021

    2020

    • Human Cognition: A Guide to the Evolution of AI. Keynote address at the International conference of AI in Medicine-Europe (IAME), hosted virtually by the University of Minnesota, MN [August}
    • Medical Expertise: Why and When is explanation needed? Fall seminar in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, September, 2020
    • Medical Expertise: Why and When is explanation useful? Department of Population Health Sciences, Division of Health Informatics, Weill Cornell Medicine | New York-Presbyterian, November, 2020
    • Mental-Health Task Shifting to Community Nurses via Smart Phones in Pacific Island Countries, Biomedical Informatics, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

    2019

    • The Eighth International Conference on Global Health Challenges, GLOBAL HEALTH, 2019, September 22-26, Porto, Portugal.
    • The Role of Cognitive Science in Developing Safe and Acceptable Clinical Technologies, International Conference on AI in Healthcare (ICAIH): Invited Speaker and Panel Member, July 19 – 2t, Los Angeles, CA
    • The Role of Cognitive Science in Developing Safe and Acceptable Clinical Technologies, AIMed North America, Invited Speaker and Panel Member at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, California, Dec11-14
    • International Autumn School on ‘Cognitive Interfaces’ Autumn School: Invited Keynote Speaker and Track Leader, Leibniz-Instituts fuer Wissensmedien (IWM), Tuebingen [Black Forest], Germany, October 8-11

    2018

    • Human Intelligence in Clinical Human-Computer Interaction, Conference on “The Opportunities and Challenges of Therapeutic AI in Oncology”, Taipei Medical University and IBM Watson Health, Taipei, Taiwan, December 5, 2018

    2017

    • Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, Invited Speaker for Author’s Night: “Marriage of Behavioral Medicine with Technology: Strange Bedfellows or Future Promise?”, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, November 13, 2017.
    • Cognitive Informatcs for Biomedicine: Invited Speaker, Dept of Health Informatics, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, November 15, 2017.
    • The Design of Clinical Information Systems: “it’s the mind, stupid!”, Invited Speaker, Health Informatics Seminar Serie University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, December 7, 2017

    2016

    • Cognitive Disruptions and Noise Levels in Emergency Rooms: Implications for Environmental and System Design, Invited Speaker at Biomedical Informatics Seminar, Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ, February 19, 2016.
    • Team Communication and Errors in Complex Clinical Environments. Invited Speaker at Grand Rounds—Banner and Cardon Children’s Medical Center, Mesa, AZ, March 3, 2016.
    • Panel discussion on Terminologies: Reference terminologies, interface terminologies - roles and how they complement each other, Chair and Discussant: Toward a Diagnosis Driven Profession 2016, Los Angeles, CA, March 19, 2016.
    • Cognition in Generating and Mitigating Clinical Errors, Invited Speaker at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, March 21, 2016.
    • Usability in Healthcare—Current Understandings and Measurement, Invited Speaker for AMIA Webinar series presented by CIS-WG and the Implementation listserv Steering Committee, June 2, 2016.
    • Sensor-based Monitoring of Clinical Workflows in Emergency Rooms: Opportunities and Challenges, Invited Speaker for Informatics Intervention Research Collaboration series presented by Columbia University's Department of Biomedical Informatics, June 21, 2016.
    • Sensor-based Monitoring of Clinical Workflows in Emergency Rooms: Opportunities and Challenges, Invited Speaker for Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health series presented by Columbia University Medical Center, September 26, 2016.
    • Debunking Myths: Health Cognition and Medical Errors, Key Note Address, 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Cognition and Health, Varanasi, India, December 19-21, 2016.
    • Invited Member, Innovation In Healthcare Summit 2016, Bangalore, India, December 23-25, 2016.

    2015

    • Heath Information Technologies and Patient Safety: What is Current Evidence?, Invited Speaker at McGill University Health Center Retreat, Montreal, Quebec Canada, May 21, 2015.
    • Invited Keynote Speaker at International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Information Processing, Delhi, India, March 3-4, 2015.
    • Cognitive Challenges for Safe Human Computer Interaction. Invited Speaker at World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 7-12, 2015.

    2014

    • Cognitive Complexity and Decision Making in Health Care. Invited Keynote Speaker at International Conference on Recent Advances in Cognition and Health, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, January 23-25, 2014.
    • Cognitive Informatics and its Role in Patient Safety. Invited Speaker at International Symposium on Clinical & Translational Research Informatics, Melbourne, Australia, March 27-28, 2014.
    • It’s not just what you’d think: Cognitive errors in the ICU. Invited Speaker at Critical Care Research Summit of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), Atlanta, Georgia, April 9-11, 2014.
    • Nature of the “Beast” Characterizing Complexity in Intensive Care Unit. Invited Keynote Speaker at Frontiers in Intelligent Medicine Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 26-27, 2014.
    • New Approaches to Designing for HIT Usability. Invited Keynote Speaker at 2014 Conference of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Informatics (APAMI), New Delhi, India, November 1-2, 2014.
    • Invited Speaker at CBIS 2014 Conference of the Brazilian Congress of Informatics in Health, Santos, Brazil, December 7-10, 2014.

    2013

    • In Panel Presentation on “The Overall Value of Evidence-Based Healthcare,” EmblemHealth Value Initiative Roundtable, Fordham University Global Healthcare Innovation Center, New York, NY, May 2, 2013.
    • How to detect and exploit non-adherence to guidelines? Panel presentation at MEDINFO 2013, the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 20-23, 2013.
    • Patel, V.L. Human-Computer Interaction: It’s Not All About Technology. Invited Keynote Speaker at the 4th National Science Foundation- Sponsored US-Turkey Advanced Study Institute on Global Healthcare Challenges-Plenary, Antalya, Turkey, June 16-22, 2013.
    • Patel, V.L. Invitational: Development of Cognitive Expertise in Biomedical Informatics: It’s More than the Coursework, AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, Washington, D.C., November 16-20, 2013.
    • Patel, V.L. Invited Keynote Speaker at the 9th International Telemedicine Conference of Telemedicine Society of India (TELEMEDICON 2013), Jaipur, India, November 29-December 1, 2013.

    2012

    • The Need for Informatics Education and Training in Dentistry. 2012 Annual Meeting of Dental Education Association (ADEA), Orlando, Florida, March 21, 2012.
    • Health IT and Patient Safety: Current Status and Future Directions. Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada, March 23, 2012.
    • Cognition, Informatics and Safe Care of Patients. School of Nursing, Columbia University, April 11th, 2012.
    • Clinical Errors and Patient Safety: The Role of Decision Support Systems. A panel presentation at the Nursing Informatics Conference (NI2012), Montreal, Canada, July, 2012.
    • Clinical Bioinformatics: new challenges for human-centered decision-support systems. Panel presentation at Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2012), Pisa, Italy, August 26th, 2012.
    • Model-based Approaches to Assessment of Cognitive Functions. In panel presentation on “Anticipating the Special Needs of the 21st Century Silver/Ageing Economy: From Smart Technologies to Services Innovation,” OECD-WASEDA, University Joint Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 12-13, 2012.

    2011

    • Cognitive and Socio-Cultural Mediators for Team Communication in Critical Care Medicine. Workshop on Cultural Studies of Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas. Jan 21, 2011
    • Discerning Patterns of HIV Risk in Healthy Young Adults. Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Fellowship Seminar, UT Health, School of Public Health, Feb 22, 2011
    • Information Science and Technology for the Health: Role of Human Factors Engineering. The Sciences at UNAM: Building the future of Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, The Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, March 1-2, 2011.

    2010

    • The Mind’s Eye in the Era of PHRs: Will it Need Glasses? Keynote address to the HICSS health care track, cosponsored by Cyber-Infrastructure for Public Health and Health Services’ mini-track and the Kay Center, Kauai, Hawaii, January 6, 2010.
    • AMIA perspective on informatics and behavioral change 31st Annual Meeting and Scientific Session, Behavioral Medicine: Building for the Future, Society of Behavioral Medicine, Seattle Washington, Apr 7, 2010
    • How do Doctors Make Decisions? Healthcare Systems Management Research Seminar Series on Clinical Decision Making, Ottawa, Canada, April 23, 2010.
    • Creating a National Center for Cognitive Informatics in Biomedicine.Keynote address at the Taipei Medical University for the 50th Anniversary of TMU, Taipei, Taiwan, May 18-20, 2010
    • Human-Centered Design and Assessment of Health Information Technology. Invitational seminar to graduate students and faculty, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2010
    • Technology in Health Professions: Role in Teaching and Learning, UT Health Dental Faculty Retreat, South Shore Harbor, June 18, 2010
    • Science and Craft in Educating Health Professionals:The Role of Clinical Reasoning. Keynote address to the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, July 10-14, 2010
    • Medical Error and Failure Scientia, an Institute for the History of Science and Culture, Rice University, Houston, Texas, October 5, 2010.

    2009

    • Cognitive Science Approach to Understanding Human-Computer Interaction in Medicine. Keynote address presented at the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies(BIOSTEC) Porto, Portugal, January 14-18, 2009.
    • What’s New in Critical-Care Errors? A Cognitive Perspective. Keynote address at the meeting on Situational Awareness and Distributed Cognition in the ICU, Whistler, Canada, February 25-27, 2009.
    • NLM sponsored lectures in Biomedical Informatics. San Paolo, Brazil, March 4-8, 2009.
    • Translational Cognition: Cognitive and Social Science Foundation for Biomedical Informatics.Presentation at the Center for Biomedical Informatics, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, March 24, 2009.
    • New Human Abilities in the Connected Health Care Environment. Presentation at Meet the Experts: The Future of eHR, Kowloon, Hongkong, May 2,2009.
    • Discerning Patterns of HIV Risk in Healthy Young Adults: Implications for Technological Interventions.Basic Medical Sciences Departmental Seminar Series, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, May 7, 2009.
    • Debugging Myths: Curricula and Instruction in Biomedical Informatics.Keynote address at AMIA Academic Forum Third Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 24, 2009.
    • Medical Professionals and HCI Professionals together – A view towards better systems. HCI 2009 Workshop 14, HCI4MED meeting in Cambridge, UK, September 5, 2009.
    • Innovation in Information Technology and Healthcare Workshop. Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, California, October 29-30, 2009.
    • Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics: Future Challenges. Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics' Symposium, Sonoma, California, November 12-13, 2009.
    • Facilitating Patients’ Safe Access to Electronic Mental Health Records: A Proposed Cognitive Framework. IMIA-APAMI Working group 4 Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 24-27, 2009.

    2008

    • Evidence Supporting the Role of Basic Medical Science in Clinical Practice.Inaugural presentation at the Biweekly Basic Medical Sciences Departmental Seminar Series, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, January 16, 2008.
    • Errors in Medical Practice:Are Misadventures Inevitable? First presentation of the Mini- Medical School Spring 2008 Lecture Series, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix,March 5, 2008.
    • Cognition in the Generation and Management of Medical Errors. Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale,Arizona, April 4, 2008.
    • User Interface Design and Usability Testing of EHRs and CPOEs. University of Michigan Medical School's Health Informatics Grand Rounds Lecture Series, May 16, 2008.
    • Cognitive Barriers to Optimal Data Quality and Use. University of Maryland School of Nursing,18th Annual Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics, July 17, 2008.
    • International Adjudication Committee Proposal Review Conference, International Research Chairs Initiative (IRCI), Ottawa, Canada, August 2008.
    • Second Annual Thought Leadership Symposium, Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS, Phoenix, Arizona,
      Hosted by the Flinn Foundation, September 12, 2008.
    • AMIA – AAHC Design Session for BMI Competency, Nashville, Tennessee, October, 2008.
    • The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI), Irvine, California, November 13-15, 2008.

    2007

    • Keynote address to be presented at the International Patient Safety Congress in Anatalya, Turkey, March 28-31, 2007.
    • Cognition and Patient Safety in Critical Care. Paper to be presented at the 30th Annual Conference on Shock in Baltimore, Maryland June 10, 2007.
    • Keynote address to be presented at the Biennial Conference of the Indian Association for Medical Informatics in Kochi, India, November 16-18, 2007.

    2006

    • Cognition and Medical Decision-Making: More is not Better. Paper presented as a part of the Symposium organized by James S McDonnell Foundation, 'Does the Quantity of Information Enhance the Quality of Knowledge?' at AAAS February 19, 2006.
    • Cognitive Issues in the Development of Guidelines: Achieving Designer-User Compatibility. Invitational Symposium on Diffusion, Adoption and Maintenance of Psychiatric Treatment Algorithms International Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project (IPAP) and University at Buffalo School of Informatics, Buffalo, New York, May 5, 2006.
    • Cognitive Science and Biomedical Informatics. Presentation at the Workshop on Biomedical Informatics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel May 15, 2006.
    • To err is not entirely human, or is it? Keynote address at the Annual Meeting, Israeli Association for Medical Informatics, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 17, 2006.
    • Cognitive Science and Biomedical Informatics Workshop on Biomedical Informatics. Ben Gurion University Negev, Israel May 17, 2006.
    • Cognitive Complexity in Healthcare Applications: Issues of Patient Safety. Keynote at the Human Factors and Medical Informatics IMIA and EFMI Workshop, Lille, France, May 24, 2006.
    • Cognition and Nursing: Knowing Thinking and Doing. Keynote address at the International Nursing Informatics Conference 2006, Seoul, Korea, June 13, 2006.
    • Emerging Paradigms of Cognition in Medical Decision-Making. Keynote address at the Workshop on Medical Thinking: What We Know, University College, London June 22-23, 2006.
    • Cognition and Informatics: Knowing, Thinking, and Doing. Keynote address at the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) 2006, Taipei, Taiwan, October 28, 2006.

    2005

    • Health education and HIV: Role of informatics. Presented at National Technological University, Singapore, February 18th, 2005.
    • Why study cognition for HIV risks: Implications for Asia. Presented at Nicholas Piramal Research Centre, Mumbai, India, February 23rd, 2005.
    • Patterns of reasoning and condom use in young adults. HIV Grand Rounds, New York State Psychiatric Institute, March 31st, 2005.
    • Models of Decision Making about Condom Use by Young Urban Adults, Workshop on Cognition and HIV-AIDS Education, sponsored by James S. McDonnell Foundation, Tarrytown House, NY January 8, 2005
    • How information influences behavioral change: A McDonnell Foundation workshop March 3-5, 2005 Grand Colonial Hotel, La Jolla, CA.
    • The Role of Cognition in Changing Behavior: Understanding Safe Sex Practices and HIV Concepts, An Advanced International Colloquium on Building the Scientific Mind (BtSM2005),The Hague, Netherlands, 17-20 May 2005

    2004

    • "Beyond Cognition: Perceptions and Feelings in Young Adults' Risk-Taking Behavior. Saint Vincent's Hospital-Manhattan HIV Rounds, March 9th, 2004
    • Distributed Cognition and Medical Errors in Psychiatric Emergency Care, NIMH workshop on "Cognitive Perspectives on Mental Health Practice," , May 4-5,2004, National Institute of mental Health, Bethesda, MD
    • Cognitive Science Foundation for Health Education and Policy: Examples from HIV-related Studies The Human Development � Education division, The World Bank, May 5, 2004

    2003

    • Decision making under uncertainty, Basic and Applied Decision Making in Cancer Control Meeting, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland 12-13 February, 2003
    • Impact of EMR on Health Care ,Social Work in psychiatry, Psychiatric Institute New York, NY, February, 2003
    • Walter Kintsch: A Psychology Beyond Words :Triple Festschrift in honor of Lyle Bourne, Walter Kintsch, and Thomas Landauer, University of Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
    • The Intermed collaboration, the Science of Collaboratories workshop, Ann Arbor MI, June 2003
    • Patient Safety issues in Nursing Informatics. International Nursing Informatics post Conference workshop, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil June, 2003
    • Pasture's Quadrants a dynamic construct for educational research, American Education Research Association/ Postdoctoral Research Fellows summer retreat, Chauncey Conference Center, Princeton, NJ, August, 2003
    • Problem-based learning, Invitational; key-note address at the European Dental Education Meeting, Dresden, Germany, September, 2003
    • Cognitive Science and Medical Informatics: Implications for Doctor-Patient Communication Johns Hopkins University, November, 2003

    2002

    • The challenges in bringing formal evidence in to Practice, Grand Rounds, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA. March, 2002
    • The future of paperless hospital IMIA Annual meeting. Taipei, Taiwan, October, 2002
    • Medical Decision Making, Workshop on training and performance assessment, Brazil, December, 2002

    2001

    • Applying the Science of Learning to the University and Beyond: Cognitive, Motivational, and Social Factors. Spencer Foundation/APS sponsored workshop, Kellogg Center, Pomona, CA, March 1-4, 2001.
    • Cognitive Science and its Role in Medical Informatics Research and Practice. NLM sponsored initiative at Sao Paulo, Brazil, May30-June3, 2001.
    • International Summer School on Design- for- Safety-2001. The European Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO), Saint-Lary, Prénées, France, August 2001.
    • Medical Informatics and the science of Cognition, Centre for Health Informatics University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, September, 2001
    • Electronic Health Record. Japanese Medical Informatics Association, December 2001 Tokyo, Japan

    2000

    • Active Knowledge and Cognitive Performance in Professional Education. "Advances in Teaching and Learning" Day. Houston Health Science Centre. University of Texas at Houston. Houston, TX, February 1, 2000.
    • Development of Medical Decision Making Processes, Presentation as a part of the Panel on the "Roles of Psychological Theory and Research in Improving Medical Decisions", February 22, 2000, Washington, D.C.
    • Role of Cognitive and Social Sciences and Humanities for Medical Education and Training in the Information Age: Victoria, British Columbia, Workshop, February, 2000.
    • Are Health Report Cards Measuring Up? HEALlNet 5th Annual Conference 2000, Toronto, Ontario, March, 2000
    • Impact of a Computer-Based Patient Record System on Data Collection, Knowledge Organization, and Reasoning, Stanford Medical Informatics Colloquium, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA April, 2000.
    • Heuristics and Medical Errors in Emergency Conditions. Johnson Space Center, NASA Houston. May, 2000.
    • Cognitive Models in Training Health Professionals to Protect Patients' Confidential Information. International Medical Informatics Association Working Group 4 (Security and Confidentiality for Electronic Health Record) University of Victoria, B.C. July, 2000.
    • Heuristics and Medical Errors in Emergency Conditions. NASA Smart Systems Presentation, NASA Houston. September 8-10, 2000.
    • Training Physicians to Meet the Technological Changes of the New Century. National Academy of Medicine, Hong Kong. October, 2000.
    • What is Wrong with EMR? Canada E-Health 2000 Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October, 2000.
    • The impact of the Clinical Systems on Human Cognition: Computer-Based Patient Records as an Example. Seminar. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, NY, December, 2000.
    • Cognitive Science Research at the Interface between Psychiatry and Medical Informatics. Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, NY, December, 2000.
    • Psychiatric Grand Rounds. Applying the Science of Learning to the University and Beyond: Cognitive, Motivational, and Social Factors. Spencer Foundation/APS sponsored workshop, Kellogg Center, Pomona, CA, March 1-4, 2001.

    1999

    • Laboratories Without Walls: Collaboration in Health Care. HEALNet 4th Annual General Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, March 1999
    • Issues in User Interface Design: Role of Cognitive Science. Faculty of Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, April 1999.
    • Science of Cognition and User Interface Design. Houston Health Science Centre, University of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX, March 1999.
    • The Networked Health Care Environment of the Future: Requirements for New Human Abilities. MedNet 1999, 4th World Congress of Internet in Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany, September, 1999.

    1998

    • Building Co-laboratories in Medicine and Health: Exploring Human-Machine Interaction. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, February, 1998.
    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, February, 1998.
    • Cognitive Aspects of Interface Design for Biomedical Environments: Semi-plenary session at FALL AMIA in Orlando, Florida, November, 1998.

    1997

    • Scientific Collaboration in Health Informatics: Health Informatics, HEALNet, Victoria, BC, April, 1997.
    • The Role of Communication and Co-ordination between Academia, Community and Health Services: Colombian Association of Medical Schools, Santafe de Bogota DC, Colombia. September, 1997.
    • Medical Expertise and Aging: Conference on Information Processing & Cognition; Destin, Florida, 1997
    • Role of Problem Based Learning in Dental Education, International Congress of Dentistry Orlando, Florida, 1997

    1996

    • Strategies for Changing Physicians' Beliefs and Behavior: Conference sponsored by SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals AB. Barcelona, Spain. February, 1996.
    • Cognitive Issues: COACH 21. Review Panel - Scientific Program Committee. Toronto, Ontario. April, 1996.
    • Understanding Cognitive Processes in Decision Making. New Information Technology and National Heart Alert Program, Bethesda, MD. April, 1996.
    • Decision Making in Health Care: How studies of practice inform theory. Naturalistic Decision Making, Virginia, USA, April, 1996.
    • Human Resources in Health and Medical Education: Conference on Human Resources in Health and Medical Education. Buenos Aries, Argentina. September, 1996.

    1995

    • The Nature of Medical Expertise and Its Relationship to Medical Informatics: Columbia University. New York City, New York. January 1995.
    • Cognition and Technology in Health Education Research: Diffusion and Dissemination of Health Education. Health Promotions Canada & NCI. Vancouver, British Columbia. March, 1995.
    • The Acquisition of Medical Expertise in Complex Dynamic Environments: The acquisition of expert performance. Wakulla Springs, FL. April, 1995.
    • A Healthy Body and a Healthy Mind?: The Relationship between cognitive and physical illness: Discussant. Conference sponsored by the Partnership for Child Development, Oxford, University, The Wellcome Trust, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Worcestershire, UK. June, 1995.
    • Interdisciplinary in the Construction of the New Medical Education: World Conference of Medical Education. Bogot�, Colombia. October, 1995.
    • Strategies for Changing Physician Behavior: Coronary Heart Disease Management - University Program. Conference sponsored by Merck & Co., Inc. Escorial, Spain, October, 1995.

    1994

    • Cognitive Models of Reasoning in Medicine: Distinguished Lecture Series, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton University. Ottawa, Ontario. January, 1994.
    • Cognition and Knowledge Representation in Health Informatics: Scientific and Academic Research Special Interest Group of the Canadian Organization for the Advancement of Computers in Health (SARIG of COACH), Vancouver, British Columbia. March, 1994.
    • Medical Decision Making: Norwalk Hospital, Yale University, Norwalk, Connecticut. April, 1994.
    • Cognitive Models for Characterizing Biomedical Knowledge and Expertise: Keynote address. Conference on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Nicosia, Cyprus. May, 1994.
    • Cognitive Models of Clinical Reasoning Conceptual Representation: Keynote address. Conference on Natural Language and Medical Concept Representation. Lake Geneva, Switzerland. May-June, 1994.
    • The Nature of Medical Expertise: Applications of Cognitive Science Principles: School of Behavioral Sciences, Macquarie University. Sydney, Australia. August, 1994.
    • Symposium on Marshaling Technology for Development: Reaction to Keynote Address on Education: The World Bank and the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering. Irvine, CA. November, 1994.

    1993

    • Effects of Conventional and Problem-Based Medical Curricula on Problem Solving: Medical Grand Rounds, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Education, The University of Manitoba. Winnipeg, Manitoba. February 1993, January, 1994.
    • Transfer of Technology to the Developing Countries: McGill Student Pugwash, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. February, 1993.
    • Medical Education in Transition: An Argument for Science-Based Curriculum: Medical Grand Rounds. Royal Victoria Hospital. Montreal, Quebec. February, 1993.
    • Cognition and Medical Education: Roll Conference on Medical Education. The University of Michigan Medical Center. Captiva Island, Florida. February-March, 1993.
    • Cognitive Models of Expertise in Medicine: Plenary session presented at The Third International Workshop on Human & Machine Cognition, Special Topic 1993: Expertise in Context. Seaside, Florida. May, 1993.
    • Medical Information and The Documents: Day of the Document. "De Reehorst" in Ede, The Netherlands. May, 1993.
    • User Interfaces: (Co-group Leader) International Medical Informatics Association. Working Conference on Workstations - Assignment 1. Washington, DC. June, 1993.
    • Cognitive Science and Medical Education: State-of-the-Art: Plenary Session - 2nd Gauss Symposium, International Conference on Medical Mathematics and Physics. Munich, Germany. August, 1993.
    • Cognitive Assessment and Health Education in Relation to Child Health Status: Partnership for Child Development. Ocho Rios, Jamaica. September 1993.
    • The Role of Biomedical Knowledge in Medical Education: A Cognitive Science Perspective: 2nd Gauss Symposium, International Conference on Medical Mathematics and Physics. Munich, Germany. August, 1993
    • Cognition, Education and Child Health: Community, Developmental & Epidemiologic Research, McGill University-Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute. Montreal, Quebec. November, 1993.
    • Panel on the Health Professional Workstation: Report of an International Conference: Panelist - Patient-Centered Computing: Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, A Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. Washington, DC. November, 1993.

    1992

    • The Problem Based Learning Curriculum as Compared with the Traditional Curriculum: Medical Education Workshop, The University of the West Indies, Mt. Irvine Bay Hotel, Tobago, West Indies. February, 1992
    • Cognitive Models of Clinical Reasoning: Evidence from Studies of the Development of Expertise: Division of Information Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California. April, 1992
    • Real versus Artificial Expertise: The Development of Cognitive Models of Clinical Reasoning: Département d'informatique et de récherche opérationnelle (I.R.O.) Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec. April, 1992.
    • The Representation of Medical Information in Novices, Intermediates, and Experts: Plenary Session Speaker: World Congress on Medical Informatics, Geneva, Switzerland. September, 1992
    • Reconciling Cognitive Research with Health Education Assessment and Intervention: Workshop on Cognition and Educational Achievement for the Partnership for Child Development. Kingston and Ocho Rios, Jamaica. November, 1992

    1991

    • Real versus Artificial Expertise: The Development of Cognitive Models of Clinical Reasoning: Invited Keynote Speaker: Third European Conference on AI in Medicine. Maastricht, the Netherlands. June, 1991
    • Role of Tutor in PBL Methodology: Problem Based Learning Workshop, Guyana, South America. August, 1991

    1990

    • Cognition and Technology Innovation in Health and Agriculture: (with T.O. Eisemon) McGill International, Montreal, Quebec. February, 1990.
    • Connaissance en prior dans la comprehension du text: Laboratoire de psychologie, Université de Paris VIII, Paris, France. Fall 1990
    • Two Modes of Thought: A Comparison of Effects of Conventional and Problem-Based Medical Curricula: Plenary Session, Second International Symposium on Problem-Based Learning, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. October, 1990
    • Inducing Backward Reasoning in Medical Problem Solving: Medical Rounds, Faculty of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. November, 1990.
    • Inducing Backward Reasoning in Medical Problem Solving: Department of Medical Informatics, Universit� de Pavia, Pavia, Italy. December, 1990

    1989

    • Analyse de protocole en contexte médical: Laboratoire de psychologie, Université de Paris VIII, Paris, France. February, 1989
    • Hypothesis Evaluation from Bayesian and Psychological Perspectives: Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec. May, 1989.
    • The Study of Expertise: Prospects and Limits: Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin, Germany. June, 1989

    1988

    • Role of Basic Science in Medical Curriculum: University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. September, 1988
    • Cognitive Science in Medicine: Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. December, 1988

    1987

    • Cognitive Science and Technological Interventions: Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, New York. February, 1987
    • Relationship of Comprehension to Problem Solving in Clinical Medicine: Cognitive Science Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. February,1987.

    1986

    • Cognitive Studies on Health Care Delivery in the Third World Countries: Bureau of Educational Research, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. January, 1986
    • Role of Situation Models in Clinical Reasoning: American Educational Research Association, Division C Symposium on "Cognitive Science in Medicine: The Nature of Acquisition and Application." San Francisco, CA. April, 1986
    • Basic Science & Clinical Knowledge: Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. September, 1986.
    • Assessment of Teaching & Learning in Medicine: Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. November, 1986.
    • Models of Medical Problem Solving: Evidence from Cognitive Psychological Studies: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November, 1986

    1985

    • Role of Knowledge in Community-Based Education. Office of International Research Development, Cairo, Egypt. September, 1985.
    • Role of Biomedical Knowledge in Clinical Reasoning: Josiah Macy Jr., Foundation, New York City, New York. Organized day of "Scientists Meet the Journalists." May, 1985

    1984

    • Discourse Analysis: Its Role in the Study of Clinical Reasoning: School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, Illinois. January,1984
    • Propositional Representation of Medical Problem Solving Protocols: Cognitive Science Society, Invitational Symposium on �Knowledge-Based Medical Problem Solving." Boulder, Colorado. June, 1984.

    1983

    • Cognitive Processes in Comprehension and Problem Solving by Medical Students and Physicians: Department of Medical Education, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February, 1983
    • Cognitive Processes in Comprehension and Knowledge Acquisition by Medical Students and Physicians. University of Limburg, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Spring, 1983
    • Medical Problem Solving: State of the Art: Medical Grand Rounds, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. December, 1983.


     

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