Plummer Centennial Symposium
October 18, 2007
8:00 a.m. Introduction and Welcome
Glenn S. Forbes, M.D.
8:15 a.m. Keynote Address: “The Transformation of the VA System: Health Informatics as an enabling technology”
Robert M. Kolodner, M.D. Presentation
9:15 a.m. “The Plummer Unit Medical Record: A century of research and practice improvement”
Joseph Melton, M.D.
10:15 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. “Mayo System and Procedures: The Plummer legacy”
Richard Cleeremans Presentation
11:30 a.m. “Mayo’s Transformation to the Electronic Record: Lessons from the Plummer tradition”
David N. Mohr, M.D Presentation
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. “Health Informatics in Practice and Research: State of the art after one century”
Christopher G. Chute, M.D., Dr.PH. Presentation
2:30 p.m. “Health Practice for Mayo’s Future: The Plummer Project”
Wayne L. Feyereisn, M.D.
3 :30 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. “Biomedicine in the 21st Century: Personalized Medicine and research-based evidence”
Franklyn G. Prendergast, M.D., Ph.D.
4:45 p.m. Closing Comments