Support for the Doctoral Consortium Program at the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2016

IEEE国际医疗保健信息学会议(ICHI)是主要的社区论坛，关注应用计算机科学原理、信息科学原理、信息技术和通信技术来解决医疗保健、公共卫生和日常健康方面的问题。在这个高度跨学科的领域工作的博士生将从资深研究人员的指导和同行学生的支持中受益匪浅。ICHI的博士联盟为处于健康信息学问题研究早期阶段的博士生提供了这样一个支持性的学习机会。博士联盟的参与者将讨论他们正在进行的工作，接受导师的反馈和指导，并与同行学生互动。我们希望这次活动能够帮助参与者提高他们自己的研究，以及他们对跨学科的理解和实践。由于优先考虑来自代表性不足群体的学生，这次活动将有助于培训和发展下一代领导人和劳动力，并加强妇女和少数族裔学生在这一重要和新兴领域这一关键领域的参与。它是讨论创新技术贡献的场所，强调端到端应用程序、系统和技术，即使只提供原型形式。博士生联盟将支持25名博士生加入该联盟，其中包括至少10名女性学生和少数族裔学生。获奖学生还将从与领先研究人员的面对面会议中受益，并在他们的论文方向、卫生信息学的具体问题以及职业发展方面获得宝贵的指导。具体地说，他们将进行快速演讲，介绍他们工作的概要，然后是海报会议，参与者和导师可以在会议上更详细地讨论研究。该联盟将以小组讨论结束，讨论对博士生非常重要的主题(例如，论文提案、论文执行、求职和拨款申请)。这一活动不仅将在培养和发展博士生方面具有强大的教育价值，而且还将提供一个场所，培养和协同可能在社会上产生影响的新研究想法。

IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) is the premier community forum concerned with the application of computer science principles, information science principles, information technology, and communication technology to address problems in healthcare, public health, and everyday wellness. Doctoral students who work in this highly interdisciplinary area would benefit greatly from senior researchers' guidance and peer students' support. The doctoral consortium at ICHI offers such a supportive learning opportunity for doctoral students in the early stage of their research on health informatics problems. Participants of the doctoral consortium will discuss their work in progress, receive feedback and guidance from mentors, and interact with peer students. We hope the event can help participants improve their own research, as well as their understanding and practice of interdisciplinarity. With priority given to students from under-represented groups, this event will contribute to the training and development of the future generation of leaders and workforce, as well as enhances the participation of women and minority students, in this critical field in this important and emerging area.ICHI 2016 will highlights the most novel technical contributions in computing-oriented health informatics and the related social and ethical implications. It serves as a venue for the discussion of innovative technical contributions highlighting end-to-end applications, systems, and technologies, even if available only in prototype form. The Doctoral Consortium will support the participation of 25 doctoral students in this consortium, including at least 10 female students and ethically minority students. Awardee students will also benefit from vis-a-vis meeting with leading researchers and receive valuable guidance on direction of their dissertation, specific issues in health informatics, as well as career development. Specifically, they will give a rapid-fire talk to present a synopsis of their work, followed by a poster session where participants and mentors can discuss research in greater detail. The consortium will close with a panel discussion on topics that are of high importance to doctoral students (e.g., dissertation proposal, dissertation execution, job search, and grant seeking). This event will not only have strong educational values in training and developing doctoral students, but also provide a venue to foster and synergize new research ideas that could make a difference in the society.