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medinfo2001 news update — Professor Susan Greenfield to be keynote speaker

Professor Susan Greenfield, CBE, voted The Observer newspaper's Woman of the Year 2000, will give the opening plenary presentation at medinfo2001, to be held at ExCel Congress Centre, London, on 2–5 September 2001.

Professor Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and Professor of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, leads a multidisciplinary group studying neurodegenerative disorders. At medinfo2001she will explore the Brain of the Future through the possibilities and implications posed by neuroscientific advances for the coming century, including mapping of the human genome.

Other recent developments in preparation for medinfo2001

The World Bank, through infoDev, its Information for Development Programme, and its Conference Scholarship Fund, is funding bursaries for attendance by delegates from poorer developing countries who would otherwise not be able to attend.

Online registration and payment and downloadable registration forms are available on the website: www.medinfo2001.org

ExCel, the fully operational 'smart building', has recognised medinfo2001 as significant in its busy schedule of world-class events.

Accommodation and travel arrangements and block allocations are already in place, with information available via the website.

Considerable interest in medinfo2001 is being generated as far afield as Australia, Japan, Czech Republic, Brazil, Romania, Ukraine, South Africa, and within the European Commission.

About medinfo

medinfo2001 is the Tenth World Congress on Medical Informatics. This is the first time that the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) has brought its Congress to London or the UK.

It will be held at the ExCel Congress Centre, London, on 2–5 September 2001 and has the theme Towards Global Health: The Informatics Route to Knowledge. It will contain both a twelve-stream scientific programme and an integral exhibition. The exhibition will feature vendor solutions, multinational programme displays and national showcases.