Invitation to participate at MEDNET 2006
Readers are invited to consider participating (submitting panel
proposals, tutorial proposal, and papers) at the 11th World Congress on
Internet in Medicine (MEDNET 2006) Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto,
Canada, 13–20, Oct 2006.
This will be the first Mednet conference in North-America, and the
largest so far.
There will be a research track, a practice track (for non-research
presentations of practical experiences with medical website development),
and a business track.
Panel and tutorial suggestions can be made by filling in the
pre-registration form at
www.mednetcongress.com/preregistration.php
Pre-registration is not binding, but it allows us to better gauge the
number of participants, which we currently estimate to be around 800. The
pre-registration form also allows you to suggest the title of your tutorial
or panel, should you be interested in chairing one. You will be added to our
mailing listed and informed if the call for abstracts becomes available. The
deadline for abstracts is March 15th. We hope to make a preselection among
panel and tutorial proposals by January 15th.
We are also still looking for keynote speakers, and if you have any
suggestions, please start to discuss this with us.
We also have exhibition space available for software demonstrations of
medical Internet products, services, publications and eHealth applications —
please contact us if you know individuals or companies who would be
interested in exhibiting or sponsoring the conference:
www.mednetcongress.com/sponsors.html
Tutorial sessions are half-day events which will be taught by experts in
a field. The tutor will receive a complimentary ticket for the entire
conference and a small honorarium.
If you want to chair a panel, we would ask you to invite 2-3 well-known
experts to present or discuss a topic of your interest together with you at
a 45-minute session at the congress. If you are interested in this, please
first approach your fellow panellists with your idea, obtain their feedback
and consent, and then pre-register providing an abstract for the panel
(please also ask your panellists to
pre-register as well). Please note that normally we will not be able to
cover the entire registration fee, travel and accommodation for any of the
panellists, but there will be a reduced registration fee for the panellists,
and you can talk to us if subsidizing your travel/accommodation would be an
absolute requirement for your participation.
Finally, we should point out that there is a $100 discount on the Mednet
registration fee for JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research,
www.jmir.org
)
members. As JMIR membership is only $59 pa, this is an excellent way to
reduce costs further.
Finally, we hope that you can assist us in spreading the word by posting
notes on websites, newsgroups, and mailing lists. A Mednet banner is
available at
www.mednetcongress.com/sponsors.html
Tracks and themes at Mednet 2006
- Internet based publishing and peer-review;
- Open Access publishing in medicine;
- Health information on the web: Supply and Demand;
- Next-generation Internet health applications;
- semantic web applications and search engine technologies;
- psychobehavioral interventions on the Internet;
- evaluation and methodological issues in ehealth;
- web-based medical education;
- health communication on the internet;
- patient portals;
- putting electronic health records online;
- etrials: using the web and etechnologies for clinical trials;
- public (e-)health, population health technologies, surveillance;
- Internet for disease prevention;
- ehealth for chronic diseases;
- online pharmacies;
- usability and human factors on the web;
- telehealth and medical practice using IP technologies;
- business opportunities in ehealth;
- health-e body weight: ehealth technologies for healthy eating and
active lifestyle;
- cancer and the Internet; and
- web-assisted tobacco interventions.
We look forward seeing you in Toronto.
Dr. Gunther Eysenbach
Chair, 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine (MEDNET 2006),
www.mednetcongress.org
Senior Scientist, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research;
Toronto General Research Institute of the UHN;
Associate Professor,
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of
Toronto;
Editor/Publisher, Journal of Medical Internet Research
(JMIR) www.jmir.org
Executive Director, WebCite Consortium,
www.webcitation.org
Mailing address:
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
Toronto General Hospital
R. Fraser Elliott Building, 4th Floor, room # 4S435,
190 Elizabeth Street
Toronto, ON M5G 2C4
telephone (+1) 416-340-4800 Ext. 6427
fax (+1) 416-340-3595
geysenba@uhnres.utoronto.ca
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