For the summer we're going back to meeting at the earlier time slot of 6pm! We've moved back to the usual location of Tricor Braun
July 21st, 2008
Location: Tricor Braun
Time: 6pm
Prizes: Cool Microsoft stuff!
Food: Pizza provided by Engage Software!
Topic: The Repository module – Really you can use it for that too!
Presenter: Matthey Hile
Bio: Matthew G. Hile, Ph.D., is the Director of the Missouri Institute of Mental Health’s Behavioral Health Division and its Behavioral Informatics Program. A licensed psychologist, he was trained at the University of Kentucky in clinical and community psychology. Dr. Hile has been an active researcher in behavioral informatics since 1984 and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He has published numerous peer reviewed articles and has edited two books focusing on issues in behavioral informatics.
Dr. Hile has been the Information Technology (IT) Director for multiple grants and projects and has developed and implemented a number of automated systems. A FIRST Award from NIMH allowed him to develop the Mental Retardation-Expert, an automated decision support system to help clinicians treat severe behavior problems in individuals who are mentally retarded and/or developmentally disabled. Other systems include: the Clinical/Management Information System (C/MIS) for the assessment and tracking of persons in the mental health system; and the Initial Standardized Assessment Protocol (ISAP) for assessing consumers and measuring substance abuse treatment impacts. ISAP is currently used to assess and measure change by all of Missouri’s publicly funded substance abuse treatment programs and in other centers around the world.
Now working primarily on the web, he has developed systems that help: consumers and their families find services for substance abuse, mental health, or mental retardation (www.samhi.mimh.edu); screen adolescents for various problems (e.g., substance use, depression, and tobacco use) and refer them to appropriate services (www.screenmo.org); and teach women the self-change strategies needed to reduce their risks of having an alcohol exposed pregnancy (www.safepregnancy.org).
Focusing on behavioral informatics, his current research interests include usability, online self-change protocols and supportive communities, promoting behavioral change with cell phones, developing and supporting communities of practice in social service, graphic data representations, and tools to help behavioral health staff become more effective.
His professional blog and web site can be found at: http://www.mimh.edu/matthew.hile and his personal blog at http://blogs.hile.us.
In order for us to order the appropriate amount of Pizza please RSVP by Noon Central Time Monday, July 21st