Medical Subject Headings
MeSH Staff Presentations and Publications
Selected items of current interest. For previously listed items see archived presentations page.
Articles
Presentations
Posters
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Nelson, Stuart J.; Zeng, Kelly; Kilbourne, John; Powell, Tammy; Moore, Robin.
Normalized Names for Clinical Drugs—RxNorm at 6 years.
J Am Med Informatics Assoc. 2011 Jul-Aug;18(4):441-8.Nelson, Stuart J.; Zeng, Kelly; Kilbourne, John.
Building a Standards-Based and Collaborative E-Prescribing Tool - MyRxPad.
Int J Data Mining and Bioinformatics. 2011;5(3):252-65.Nelson, Stuart J.; Schulman, Jacque-Lynne.
Orthopedic Literature and MeSH.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 2010 Oct;468(10):2621-6.Nelson, Stuart J.
Making Terminologies That Work: The Example of MeSH.
In: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (ISPAN 2009). Dec. 14-16, 2009, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. p. 380-384.Nelson, Stuart J.; Zeng, Kelly; Kilbourne, John.
Building a Standards-Based and Collaborative E-Prescribing Tool - MyRxPad.
In: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine; 2009 Nov 1-4; Washington, DC., p. 210-215.Zeng, Kelly; Bodenreider, Olivier; Nelson, Stuart J.
Design and Implementation of a Personal Medication Record-MyMedicationList.
In: Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association; 2008 Nov 6; Washington, DC., p. 844-8.Nelson, Stuart J.; Schulman, Jacque-Lynne.
A Multilingual Vocabulary Project - Managing the Maintenance Environment.
European Association for Health Information & Libraries (EAHIL) Workshop; 2007 Sep 14; Kraków, Poland. See also presentation, referenced below.Nelson, Stuart J.; Schopen, Michael; Savage, Allan G.; Schulman, Jacque-Lynne; Arluk, Natalie.
The MeSH Translation Maintenance System: Structure, Interface Design, and Implementation.
In: Fieschi, M. et al., editors. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 2004 Sep 7-11; San Francisco, CA. Amsterdam: IOS Press; 2004. pp. 67-69. See also presentation, referenced below.Nelson, Stuart J.; Brown, Steven H.; Erlbaum, Mark S.; Olson, Nels; Powell, Tammy; Carlsen, Brian; Carter, John; Tuttle, Mark S.; Hole, William T.
A Semantic Normal Form for Clinical Drugs in the UMLS: Early Experiences with the VANDF.
In: Kohane, Issac S., editor. Bio*medical Informatics: One Discipline. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association; 2002 Nov 9-13; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc.; 2002. p. 557-561.Nelson, Stuart J.; Knecht, Lou Wave.
Mapping in PubMed [letter]. J Med Libr Assoc. 2002 Oct;90(4):475.Powell, Tammy; Srinivasan, Suresh; Nelson, Stuart J.; Hole, William T.; Roth, Laura; Olenichev, Vladimir.
Tracking Meaning Over Time in the UMLS Metathesaurus.
In: Kohane, Issac S., editor. Bio*medical Informatics: One Discipline. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association; 2002 Nov 9-13; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc.; 2002. p. 622-626.Nelson, Stuart J.; Powell, Tammy; Humphreys, Betsy L.
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Project.
In: Kent, Allen; Hall, Carolyn M., editors. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.; 2002. p. 369-378.Nelson, Stuart J.; Schopen, Michael; Schulman, Jacque-Lynne; Arluk, Natalie,
An Interlingual Database of MeSH Translations.
8th International Conference on Medical Librarianship; 2000 Jul 4; London, UK.Nelson, Stuart J.; Johnston, Douglas, Humphreys, Betsy L.
Relationships in Medical Subject Headings.
In: Bean, Carol A.; Green, Rebecca, editors. Relationships in the organization of knowledge. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 2001. p. 171-184.Savage, Allan,
Changes in MeSH Data Structure.
NLM Tech Bull. 2000;:March-April. See also Redefining a Thesaurus, below.Bodenreider, Olivier; Nelson, Stuart J.; Hole, William T.; Chang, H. Florence.
Beyond synonymy: exploiting the UMLS semantics in mapping vocabularies.
In: Chute, Christopher G., editor. A Paradigm Shift in Health Care Information Systems: Clinical Infrastuctures for the 21st Century. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association; 1998 Nov 7-11; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc.; 1998. p. 815-819. - Posters and other presentations
See also UMLS Webcasts.
Nelson, Stuart J.
Webcast: An Update of RxNorm.
Presentation at: NLM.; 2011 Sept 28; Bethesda, MD.Kilbourne, John.
RxNorm Structures.
Presentation at: The AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium; 2010 Oct; Washington, DC.Nelson, Stuart J.
Webcast: DailyMed.
Presentation at: The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association; 2010 May 23; Washington, DC.Nelson, Stuart J.
Webcast: MyMedicationList and RxNorm.
Presentation at: The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association; 2010 May 24; Washington, DC.Nelson, Stuart J.
Webcast: RxNorm Update, MyMedicationList, and DailyMed.
Presentation at: NLM.; 2009 Jan 29; Bethesda, MD.Nelson, Stuart J.
MeSH 2008-2009, Development and Future Plans.
Presentation at: Web Conference of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern Atlantic Region; 2008 Nov 19; Bethesda, MD.Zeng, Kelly; Bodenreider, Olivier; Kilbourne, John; Nelson, Stuart J.
Design and Implementation of a Personal Medication Record - MyMedicationList.
Presentation at: AMIA 2008 Annual Symp.; 2008 Nov 10; Washington, DC.Nelson, Stuart J.
Webcast on RxNorm.
Presentation at: NLM.; 2008 Feb 1; Bethesda, MD.Nelson, Stuart J.; Schulman, Jacque-Lynne.
Presentations at: European Association for Health Information & Libraries (EAHIL) Workshop; 2007 Sep 12-15; Kraków, Poland.- Presentations at the Workshop for MeSH Translators. (12 Sep)
- The MeSH Translation Maintenance System (MTMS). Management Issues. (14 Sep) See also paper, referenced above.
Nelson, Stuart J.
Drug Information at the National Library of Medicine.
Presentation at: Drug Information Association, 43rd Annual Meeting; 2007 Jun 19; Atlanta, GA.Zeng, Kelly; Bodenreider, Olivier; Kilbourne, John; Nelson, Stuart J.
RxNav: Providing Standard Drug Information.
Presentation at: AMIA 2006 Annual Symp.; 2006 Nov 13; Washington, DC.Nelson, Stuart J.
Politics, Procedures, and Pitfalls in Producing Pluperfect Phraseology.
Presentation at: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); 2006 Sep 20; Atlanta, GA.Nelson, Stuart J.
Revising the Subheadings.
Presentation at: The 2006 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association; 2006 May 22; Phoenix, AZ.Nelson, Stuart J.
Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies: Understanding the Differences Between Terminologies, Classifications, Taxonomies, and Ontologies.
Presentation at: The 2006 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association; 2006 May 23; Phoenix, AZ.Nelson, Stuart J.
Presentations at: AHIMA Clinical Vocabulary Mapping Methods Institute; 2005 Oct 15; San Diego, CA.- Mapping Architecture Proposals/Solutions: The Role of the Unified Medical Language System.
- Synthesis and Future Directions.
Nelson, Stuart J.; Schulman, Jacque-Lynne.
A Model International Cooperative Project: The MeSH Translation Maintenance System (MTMS).
Presentation at: 9th World Congress on Health Information and Libraries; 2005 Sep 20-23; Salvador - Bahia, Brazil.Nelson, Stuart J. RxNorm, Past, Present and Future.
Presentation at: 28th Annual Conference of the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, Inc. (NCPDP); 2005 Mar 8; Phoenix AZ.Nelson, Stuart J.; Schopen, Michael; Savage, Allan G.; Schulman, Jacque-Lynne; Arluk, Natalie.
The MeSH Translation Maintenance System: Structure, Interface Design, and Implementation.
Presentation at: Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 2004 Sep 7-11; San Francisco, CA. See also paper, referenced above.Powell, Tammy
Tracking Meaning Over Time in the UMLS® Metathesaurus®.
Presentation at: AMIA 2002 Annual Symp.; 2002 Nov 12; San Antonio, TX.2.2 Posters
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Nelson, Stuart J., Johnston, Douglas; Powell, Tammy; Hole, William T.
Making the Marriage: Merging Worldviews and Managing Updates in MeSH and the UMLS.
Poster presentation at: AMIA 2001 Annual Symp.; 2001 Nov 5; Washington, DC.
Nelson Stuart J.; Aronson, Alan; Doszkocs, Tamas; Wilbur, John; Bodenreider, Olivier; Chang, Florence; Mork, James; McCray, Alexa.
Automated Assignment of Medical Subject Headings.
Poster presentation at: AMIA 1999 Annual Symp.; 1999 Nov 9; Washington, DC.
Johnston, Douglas; Nelson, Stuart J.; Schulman, Jacque-Lynne; Savage, Allan G.; Powell, Tammy P.
Redefining a Thesaurus: Term-Centric No More.
Poster presentation at: AMIA 1998 Annual Symp.; 1998 Nov 10; Orlando FL.
See also Changes In MeSH Data Structure, above.
