PercipEnz is proud to be able to support two innovative organizations with sponsorships for events this week.

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is hosting the first annual AMIA Summit on Clinical Research Informatics (CRI Summit) on March 12-13,  in San Francisco. The CRI Summit will be a great venue to share work, develop new collaborations, and identify potential avenues of research and development that will ultimately advance discovery-driven healthcare.  Organizers strongly encourage active participation in this new Summit from biomedical informatics professionals, clinicians, clinical investigators, information and communication technologists, computer scientists, community and public health scientists, developers, and anyone else working to advance clinical research, translational research, and drive discovery-directed healthcare.

Next, the Spring 2010 meeting of the Cancer Center Administrators Forum (CCAF) is being held in New York on March 14-16. To recognize the diversity of the host city, they have a panel of resident experts to present programs and issues on Health Care Disparities in Urban Environments. The program also includes reports on progress to date and hot issues in clinical trials reporting, new initiatives from the Cancer Centers Branch, highlights on health care reform and other political initiatives with Harry Holmes, a discussion with David Maslow, PhD, around the new NIH scoring system, colleagues will present pros/cons on systems to manage core facilities, and the semi-annual report on the NCI grants portfolio with Leo Buscher.