SMI Community

Stanford Medical Informatics has the mission to disseminate its research results as broadly as possible and to reach out to the scientific community. One important way in which we bring the community into our research enterprise is through our corporate affiliates programs. As outlined elsewhere in these pages, SMI runs an active Biomedical Informatics Affiliates Program for companies who seek the latest information on SMI's applied research on the use of information technology to advance clinical care, biomedical research, and public health. SMI also has a Protégé Education & Development Program to enable close interaction between the Protégé development team and companies interested in ontology management, intelligent systems, and Semantic Web applications. Both these programs lead to close working relationships between workers in industry and scientists at SMI.

SMI also conducts "short courses" to benefit our greater community. SMI conducts an annual Medical Informatics Short Course and frequently offers short courses in the use of our Protégé technology.

Each year, through the Protégé Resource, SMI organizes a conference for the Protégé user community. The most recent Protégé Conference was held on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in July, 2004. The next Protégé Conference will take place in Madrid, July 18-21, 2005.