Submit a Topic Proposal

Dear API Members,

The Pathology Informatics Summit Planning Committee invites API members to submit a topic proposal for the Pathology Informatics Summit 2022.  The PI Summit 2022 will take place on May 9-12, 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and Westin Pittsburgh.  Topic proposals will be accepted starting on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, and the final day to submit a topic proposal will be Friday, November 5, 2021. Those selected will be notified the week of December 13, 2021.

Proposals should designed be for:

•     35-40 minutes sessions presenting original work or informatics education
•     Typically done as PowerPoint lectures
•     Other formats and/or educational modalities are acceptable and encouraged
•     The learning approach should be described in the proposal
•     Topics will only be accepted for those with paid, current API memberships

A list of topics of interest to the conference planning committee and the API membership at large is below. This is provided to stimulate your ideas, and is not meant to be exclusive. Additional information and updates will provided on the API website proposal submission page as needed.  If you have a questions or experience problems accessing the proposal submission system, please contact Beth Gibson at [email protected] for assistance.

Topic Themes interest (Random order)

Digital pathology/WSI	Computer vision	Clinical pathology informatics	Laboratory automation	Artificial Intelligence and machine learning
Laboratory Information Systems (LIS)	Lab operations and workflow	Wearable devices; nano technology	Home health	Molecular pathology
Future of lab med and informatics	Precision medicine/theranostics	Business analytics / Business intelligence solutions	Consumerism and the diagnostic lab	Lab outreach
Value based care/lab 2.0	Public health informatics	International informatics and lab medicine	Regulatory issues/government oversight	Finance and reimbursement
Standards and informatics	Research informatics	Informatics training and education	Healthcare data interoperability	Big data
Electronic Health Record (EHR)	Electronic Health Record (EHR)	Low Middle Income Countries Informatics	Data warehousing	Data lakes

 

Dates for topic review committee meetings will be on Thursdays at 2 PM ET (11/11, 11/18, 12/2, and 12/9).

9/15/21 - Request for Proposals sent out to API membership through listserv
11/05/21 - Submission due date - deadline extended
11/11/21 - Review process for proposal requests by RFP review team
Week of 12/13/21 - Notification to submitters

Kind Regards,

J. Mark Tuthill, MD
PI Summit 2022, Conference Director

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