MAGPI's Advanced Networks in the Health Sciences Symposium will be held virtually on September 15, 2011 from 1-4pm EDT.

MAGPI is pleased to bring you this exciting virtual Advanced Networks and the Health Sciences Symposium event on Thursday September 15th from 1-4pm EDT. The Advanced Networks and the Health Sciences Symposium is free and open to hospitals and universities around the country. The Symposium builds upon the success of the national Teaching and Learning with Internet2 Symposium which was held on April 1, 2011. The Advanced Networks and the Health Sciences Symposium aims to reach medical and healtcare practicioners around the pedagogy and technology of delivering advanced healthcare.

Advanced research and education networks, such as Internet2, offer healthcare and medical practitioners and faculty opportunities to connect to a diverse array of resources and to collaborate with partners around the world toward the delivery of advanced healthcare. Through a series of keynote and breakout sessions, this half-day symposium is designed to give faculty and practicioners a taste of the range of projects and resources that exist and how they can be applied in their own teaching and healthcare practice.

The Advanced Networks and the Health Sciences Symposium will be held virtually using H.323 videoconferencing and advanced networking. Host institutions are encouraged to register and open up their sites to faculty and practicioners for local viewing and discussion. The Symposium will also be available via live webstream to those not connecting interactivly. View-only webstream sites will be able to interact and ask questions via twitter.

The Symposium Keynote will feature Dr. Dale Alverson, Medical Director, Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Alverson's talk will focus on how advanced networks can facilitate research and clinical approaches to patient care.

Two simultaneous talks will also be offered during two afternoon breakout sessions. Breakout presenters include

• Using Internet2 for Videoconferencing in PT by Calvin Wang, Arcadia University
• HIMSS Career Services in Support of an HIT Career by Helen Figge, HIMSS
• How Broadband Technology is Rapidly Changing the Face of Medicine by John Riehl, Medical Missions for Children
• Connecting Healthcare - Information that Follows the Patient by Marc Jacobs, Delaware Health Information Network and Dr. Brian McDonough, St. Francis Hospital

Read the full abstracts of the sessions plus speaker bios on the Symposium website at: http://magpi.net/Community/Programs/Advanced-Networks-and-Health-Science...

Sites Can Participate Two Ways:

1. Participate virtually via interactive H.323 videoconference. Interactive sites are limited so please register early to reserve your spot. Sites are encouraged to be "host" venues for the Symposium and open up their location to viewing audiences. Interactive seats are limited. Register online at http://magpi.net/Community/Programs/Advanced-Networks-and-Health-Science...

2. All sessions will be webstreamed live on Thursday September 15th from 1:00-4:00pm
Go to http://video.magpi.net/videos/ and click on the 'live stream' button to view available live webstreams the day of the symposium.

Webstream sites can ask questions of presenters by tweeting them to @magpik20 (using hashtag #magpihealth) or posting them to the MAGPI K20 facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/magpik20.

For more Information About the Advanced Networks and the Health Sciences Symposium visit: http://magpi.net/Community/Programs/Advanced-Networks-and-Health-Sciences-Symposium.