Advancing Practice, Instruction, and Innovation Through Informatics (APIII 2008) Conference

Scientific session presentations (http://apiii.upmc.edu/abstracts/2008_sci.cfm) and electronic poster presentations (http://apiii.upmc.edu/abstracts/2008_ep.cfm) were conducted at the 13th annual international conference on Advancing Practice, Instruction, and Innovation Through Informatics (APIII 2008) on October 19–23, 2008, at the Marriott City Center Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The course director was Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The course codirectors were John R. Gilbertson, MD, Harvard Medical School, and Daniel L. Rubin, MS, MD, Stanford University Medical Center. The scientific session director was David J. Foran, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The practical informatics course directors were John Sinard, MD, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine, and Anil Parwani, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.