Bioinformatics Education: Training a New Generation of Professionals

Patricia DombrowskiMay 2005

Bellevue Community College

3rd Largest Higher Ed in State22, 000 students per quarterIT State Center of ExcellenceMicrosoft’s Backyard

BELLEVUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Life Science Informatics CenterLives With IndustryBreathes Workforce Development

Skill StandardsCurriculum

Faculty Support

Regional & National Focus GroupsExplore Emerging Job Descriptions

Develop Skill Standards Industry Validation

Expand Medical Informatics CurriculumBridge to Bioinformatics

BIOINFORMATICS 2004 – 2005 ●

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Develop Bioinformatics Curriculum

Create Faculty Support Resource

Disseminate NationallyDOL & Health Information Management & Systems

Society (HIMSS)

BIOINFORMATICS 2005 – 2006

INFORMATION BASED MEDICINE

LIFE SCIENCESNew Drugs & Diagnostics

Clinical Research

Clinical CareMichael Svinte

IBM VP, Information Based Medicine May 18, 2005

Digitalization of Biology & Medicine

The impact of genomic discovery and invention is now surfacing noticeably in patient care

Founder, Institute for Systems Biology&

Amgen

What’s a CC to Do?

Electronic Health Record vs

Electronic Data Capture

WHERE IS THE IT TRAINING NEED?

EHRvs

EDC

Clinical vs Bio

Electronic Data Capture

If We Train Them…

Double Doc Block

Innovation

patient admissions ● lab results ● electronic patient records ●picture archiving computer systems ● pharmacy tracking ●

physician order entry ● vendor selection ● system integration ●

clinical trials ● application validation ● telemedicine ● biological computation ● research data management ● process tracking ●

manufacturing control data ● agricultural research management

Bio TechnologyClinical Operations

LIFE SCIENCE INFORMATICS

Biomedical Expert Input

Cross training

Statistics

Inductive thinking

Imaginative thinking

Basic scientific methodology

Communication and presentation Modular programs, not a 2 year degree

Microsoft:Use Xbox TechnologyTo Design Curricula

TECHNOLOGY

Where most of the growth in IT jobs used to be

Close to the technology

INFORMATION

PROCESSING

Where the growth in IT jobs is shifting

Intersection between IT and information management

USER INTERACTION

PRESENTATION LAYER

Increasing component of IT skills

Much of it still resides in research

Data/ Information Processing

Information Representation and Interaction

Information Systems and smart devices

Data/ Information repositories

Biotech/Biological Research (Bioinformatics)

Pharmaceutical Research (Clinical Trials)

Development of Devices and Drug Delivery Systems

Healthcare Delivery (Therapy/Diagnostic Management)

Healthcare Information Management (Medical Informatics)

Population/ Public Health Informatics

Convergence Informatics

Skill Standards & Curriculum Development

Bioinformaticist Level IValadation Data ManagerClinical Trials Associate

•Dissemination & Implementation Support • • • • • •

New Work & Partnerships

• On-ramp High School Curricula

• Global Life Sciences Learning Center

• IT Learning Distribution Across Disciplines

Columbia University •

Seattle Biomedical Research Institute •

UW Genome Center •

THANK YOU

Questions?

BCC Life Science Informatics Center of ExcellencePartner in the National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce

Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training AdministrationGrant AF144170460