IITM
International Institute of Tele-Medicine
                                        in cooperation with
                   University of Milano-Bicocca and University of Insubria-Como,
            Ain Shams University of Cairo-Egypt, Harvard Medical School of Boston - USA
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                              Advanced Course (2° Edition) on
 Data Bases and Statistical Software in Epidemiology and
                       Biomedicine
                                            July 5-10, 2010
                                        PTUD - Desio (Mb) – Italy
                                Lessons, Labs and Exercises (40 hours)
Topics
               Medical records; Clinical Databases; Genomic Databanks
               Hospital and Health Information Systems;
               Epidemiological Registries, Clinical Trials and Genomic Epidemiology
               Medical data integration over Internet and web-based applications in Biomedicine
               Elements of Data Analysis and Statistics
               Statistical Methods applied to Biomedicine and Epidemiology; examples and exercises.
               Survey and introduction to some statistical software: SAS, SPSS, R; Examples of
               applications
               Using a statistical Package: Data acquisition, management commands and statistical
               functions; case studies and exercises.
               Using of R statistical language and web service for data analysis; examples of
               applications, case studies and exercises.
               Data mining and neuronal networks: examples and applications
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  IMMIT: International Master on Medical Informatics &
                     Telemedicine
                                         July 2010 – June 2011
                                       PTUD – Desio (Mb) – Italy
         Lessons, labs, e-learning studies and stages (925 hours)
 180     hours on site
 220     hours by e-learning
 250     hours individual study
 250     hours stage in hospitals, universities, ICT companies, etc.
  25     hours for examinations
Programme:
The on site lessons will be divided in 2 modules of 90 hours each one 13 days every 6 months)
  1st module       Data information and knowledge in Medicine
 (12-24/07/10)  Classification and coding systems of medical information (ICD,
                     SNOMED, etc.)
                   Medical records and clinical data bases
                   Multimedia databases in biomedicine (data, signals, images, etc.)
                   Data base in health care and registry in epidemiology (clinical,
                     genomics, etc.)
                   Biological and genomic data banks and bioinformatics aspects
                   Data analysis and statistical software (i.e. SPSS, SAS, etc.)
                   Data Mining and neural networks in biomedicine
                             Artificial intelligence in medicine and aspects of neuroinformatics
                             DBMS and programming languages for medical informatics;
                              Queries languages etc.
                             Medical and Hospital information system: ADT, CIS, LIS, etc.
                             RIS/PACS and medical imaging
                             Standards in medical informatics (HL7, DICOM, XML, ...)
                             Health information systems (local, regional and national)
                             Smart cards in healthcare services
  2nd module        Telemedicine: definitions and applications
                         
  (3-15/01/11)      Teleconsulting, telediagnosis, telemonitoring, etc.
                         
                    Telecardiology, teleradiology, telepathology, teledermatology,
                         
                    teleophtalmology, telemergency, etc.
                TeleHomeCare and telesourveillance of medical parameters (data,
                    signals, etc.)
                pHealth and biomedical devices
                Networking and infotelematic infrastructure in health care and
                    TLC (fixed, mobile, wi-fi, etc.)
                Intra-extranet in hospital and health care services
                Internet in health care and facilities
                Medical Web site and portals in health care
                Telemedicine web based systems
                Web services and Grid technologies in biomedicine and healthcare
                Ontology in Medicine
 Examinations will be held at the end of Master (July 2011)
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Course and Master Director: Francesco Sicurello (President of IITM/PTUD, University
                           of Milan Bicocca and University of Insubria Como)
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Faculty for the two events:
          Giuseppe Andreoni (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy)
          Roberto Antonicelli (National Institute of Ageing, INRCA, Ancona, Italy)
          Essam Ayad (Italian Hospital Umberto I and University of Cairo -Egypt)
          Claudio Azzolini (University of Insubria, Hospital of Varese, Italy)
          Nello Balossino (University of Torino, Italy)
          Ida Biunno (Bimedical Tecnological Institute (ITB), CNR, Milan, Italy)
          Paolo Brambilla (University of Milan Bicocca - Desio Hospital, Italy)
          Branko Celler (University of New South Walles Sydney, Australia)
          Paolo Crosignani (National Cancer Institute of Milan, Italy)
          Giovanni De Vito (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy)
          Piermario Gerthoux (Hospital of Vimercate, Italy)
          Wojciech Glinkowski (Medical University of Warsaw, Poland)
          Enrico Guffanti (INRCA, Casatenovo, Italy)
          Kiyomu Ishikawa (Hiroshima University, Japan)
          Annamarija Margan (Eastern Mediterranean Region Inusla - INT, Croatia)
          Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy)
          Luciano Milanesi (Bimedical Tecnological Institute (ITB), CNR, Milan, Italy)
          Ioana Moisil (University of Sibiu, Romania)
          Massimo Musicco (Bimedical Tecnological Institute (ITB), CNR, Milan, Italy)
          Alfredo Nicolosi (Epidemiologist, Scientific Attachè Italian Embassy in Brussels)
          Gianni Pellicanò (Careggi Hospital/University, Florence, Italy)
          Tiberiu Postelnicu (Medical Science Academy, Romania)
          Abdel-Badeeh M Salem (Ain Shams University Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt)
          Yuval Shahar (Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel)
          Sandro Squarcia (University of Genoa, Italy)
          Miriam Sturkenboom (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
          Nikolay Tverdokhlebov (Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
          Moscow Russia)
          Peter Waegemann (Medical Record Institute, Boston, USA)
          Yukako Yagi (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Boston - USA)
For more information (Costs, Registration and Partecipation Modalities, Facilites, etc), contact:
IITM/PTUD Secretariat - tel. +390362627190 – fax +390362337840