Luke 9:28-36 (NIV)

28 About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. 29 As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. 30 Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus. 31 They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem. 32 Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him. 33 As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” (He did not know what he was saying.)
34 While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and covered them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. 35 A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.” 36 When the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone. The disciples kept this to themselves and did not tell anyone at that time what they had seen.

Reflection:

If we read verse 35 in light of Isaiah 42:1-16, we suddenly see and sense what the disciples may have recollected in that moment. The Son is the Servant! It would have been a whole new perspective on Jesus.

Who is Jesus to you today? What/who has captured your attention, your gaze, your listening heart? May we once again see Jesus as our mighty warrior, our savior, our God and walk in His light today…a fully awake walk with the Lord (vs.32).

Response:

May we put aside all of our preconceptions about Jesus so we may encounter His awe-inspiring reality again. He is the true King of glory, the one who will return one day in all of His power and majesty. Let’s bow down before the King and worship Him. He is the Lord and there is no else like Him in all creation.

October 19, 2012 at 11 am in ITE 456

Presented by the Department of Information Systems, UMBC

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Abstract

It is widely recognized that the nation requires a Learning Health System (LHS) to provide higher quality, safer, and more affordable health care. An LHS is one that can routinely and securely aggregate data from disparate sources, convert the data to knowledge, and disseminate that knowledge, in actionable forms, to everyone who can benefit from it. Achieving a Learning Health System at national scale requires solution of a wide array of technology and policy problems and, as such, is the consummate challenge in health informatics. This presentation will describe the LHS, why it is vital to our future, the specific problems that must be addressed, and a pathway through which the nation might achieve an LHS.

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Short Bio

His appointment at Michigan follows 8 years of work for the federal government, prior to which Dr. Friedman served for 26 years as a university faculty member and administrator.

Most recently, Dr. Friedman held executive positions at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. From 2007 to 2009 he was Deputy National Coordinator and from 2009 to 2011 he was ONC's Chief Scientific Officer. While at ONC, Friedman oversaw a diverse portfolio of nationwide activities that included development of a "learning health system", health IT research and workforce development programs, evaluation of ONC's programs, clinical decision support, and international cooperation for eHealth. He was the lead author of the first national health IT strategic plan which was released in June of 2008.

From 2003 to 2006 Dr. Friedman was Senior Scholar at the National Library of Medicine where he oversaw NLM's training and bioinformatics grant portfolios, and played a prominent role in developing the National Centers for Biomedical Computing. From 2006 to 2007, he served as an Associate Director and Chief Information Officer of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

Prior to his work in the government, from 1996 to 2003, Dr. Friedman was Professor, Associate Vice Chancellor for Biomedical Informatics, and Founding Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. In these roles he functioned as Chief Information Officer of the university's schools of the health sciences and directed the Pittsburgh program for Integrated Advanced Information Systems (IAIMS). He also served for many years in a range of faculty and administrative roles at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He directed UNC's Office of Educational Development and served as Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Medical Informatics.

Dr. Friedman is an elected fellow and past president of the American College of Medical Informatics, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. He was the Founding Chair of the Group on Information Resources of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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PLEASE JOIN US FOR A RECEPTION IN ITE 456 IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING !!! HOSTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

MICROSOFT KICKS OFF THE APP CHALLENGE AT UMBC

Students actively enrolled at an accredited educational institution that grants high-school or college/university or equivalent degrees including home schools between September 5^th 2012 and Oct 26^th 2012 can submit up to 3 Windows 8 applications to become eligible for $25 gift certificate. Students (up to 3 in a team) are required to work with an MSP to envision, build and submit an App to the Windows Store.

Join your campus Microsoft Student Partner at The App Challenge Kickoff on Friday, September 14^th during 12-1pm in ITE 459 for details on the challenge and how to sign up. 

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What will 21st Century colleges and universities look like when...

• Sustainability is the curriculum?
• Students leave institutions of higher learning with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to meet challenges wrought by climate change?
• Communities are seamless collaborators with higher education?
• Students enter business, politics, industry and social venues knowing they can solve 21st Century problems?

AASHE Education Manager Cynthia Thomashow, University of New Hampshire Chief Sustainability Officer Tom Kelly and Middlebury College's Maria Alessandra Woolson will explore opportunities for these outcomes in the brand new AASHE Curriculum Convocation on October 14 during AASHE 2012.

Specifically, this interactive and participatory workshop will look at:

• Do pedagogical approaches cultivate the kind of thinking and action necessary for meeting 21st century challenges?
• What shape does learning take when it fully integrates the social, economic and environmental consequences of personal and professional decisions?
• How do we prepare and support students to be agents of change?

Registration for AASHE 2012 ends October 8 and hotel discounts end September 22! For more information or questions, contact conference@aashe.org.

Stay in the AASHE 2012 loop by RSVPing to our event pages on Facebook and LinkedIn: Find hotel roommates, learn about impromptu networking opportunities, ask questions, and much more!

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