Seventeenth International Conference on Health Sciences Simulation (ICHSS'08)

Part of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'08)

April 14 - 17, 2008

Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel
Ottawa, Canada

Submission Deadline has been extended to February 15, 2008

This international conference, sponsored by the Society for Computer Simulation International (SCS), is a forum for modeling and simulation in the health sciences. Application areas include health services studies, pharmacometrics, drug and device development, medical practice, modeling epidemics, physiology, and methodology. Practitioners of modeling are encouraged to submit proposals based on their applications and demonstrations of computer simulation techniques. A sampling of applications presented in the past is indicated in the general sessions list shown below. Programs from the 2001 and 2002 conferences are available at http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/soc/andersonj/anderson.html.

Typical Session		Sample Application Topics
Health Services Pharmacodynamics Drug Development Bioengineering Physiology Medical Practice Medical Decision Making Microbiological Processes Epidemiology Health Policy Methodology and Software Tutorials		Resource Allocation, Care Assessment Dose Response, Synergy, Toxicology Clinical Trials, Population Analyses Cardiac Devices, Regeneration Pulmonary Function, Endocrine Systems Cancer Survival, Obesity Control Telemedicine, Screening, Treatment Genetic Control, AIDS Pathogenesis Disease Transmission, Treatment Costs Nutrition, Risk Evaluation, Smoking Cessation Discrete Modeling, Madonna plus Stella Comparing Modeling Platforms, Philosophies

Key Dates

Draft Papers due	15 Nov 2007	Submission Deadline has been extended to February 15, 2008
Notification	ASAP	The program committee will review the papers and determine which ones will be accepted.
Final Paper due	11 Jan 2008	The final version of accepted papers, incorporating changes based on reviewer comments, are due by this date.

Chairs

General Chairs:
- James G. Anderson, Ph.D.
  Professor of Medical Sociology and Health Communication
  Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
  Purdue University
  West Lafayette, IN 47907
  Fax: (765) 496-1476; Call: (765) 494-4703
- Godefridus G. van Merode, Ph.D.
  Professor Logistics and Operations Management of Health Care
  Department of Health Organization, Policy and Economics
  University Maastricht
  Tel. +31 43 388 5950
  Fax +31 43 388 5707

ICHSS'08 Scientific Program Committee

Marcelo Guarini, Ph.D.
Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Sally Brailsford, Ph.D.
University of Southampton, U.K.
Marion Rauner, Ph.D.
University of Vienna, Austria
George W. Pasdirtz, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, USA
Karl Thomaseth, Ph.D.
LADSEB-CNR, Italy

Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
P.O. Box 17900
San Diego, California 92177
Phone 858-277-3888
Fax 858-277-3930
E-mail scs@scs.org

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