Invited Talks

Electronic Health Records: How to Achieve a Successful Task-Technology Fit. (2 hours.) Annual meeting of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (ABVP), Austin, Texas, April 16, 2009. Download PowerPoint.

Pulpless Fiction: Myths & Truths on Going Paperless. Annual meeting of the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), Phoenix, Arizona, March 27, 2009. Download PowerPoint.

Making Electronic Record Transitions Smarter, Not Harder. Panel moderator. Annual meeting of the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), Phoenix, Arizona, March 27, 2009.

Overview of Veterinary Informatics. Research seminar at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Health Information Sciences, April 7, 2004.

Presentations

Introduction to Computer System Usability for the Veterinary Practice. (2 hours.) Annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 21, 2008.

An Overview of Veterinary Informatics. Annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Washington, DC, July 2007.

Design of a Computerized Database to Assist with Parasite Identification in the Clinical Practice. Annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Washington, DC, July 2007.

Improving the Usability of a Veterinary Parasitology Identification Key. Annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Washington, DC, July 2007.

Application of Cognitive Engineering Principles to the Redesign of a Dichotomous Identification Key for Parasitology. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington DC, November 13, 2006.

Workshops

How to Build Interactive Online Exercises with a Shoestring Budget and Without a Geek to Help You. Proceedings of the Advances in Teaching & Learning Day Regional Conference, Houston, Texas, 2006.

Posters

Design of a Learning Environment for Veterinary Parasitology Life Cycles. Smith-Akin, KA, and Phelps, CP. Proceedings of the Advances in Teaching & Learning Day Regional Conference, Houston, Texas, 2006.

Toward a Veterinary Informatics Research Agenda: An Analysis of the PubMed-Indexed Literature. Smith-Akin, KA; Bearden, CF; Pittenger, ST; Bernstam, EV. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 2004 Research Day Graduate and Postgraduate Research Forum, November, 2005.

Assessing the Adequacy of SNOMED-CT for Medical Records from Veterinary Private Practices. Smith, KA; Mourning, T.; Johnson, TR. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 2004 Research Day Graduate and Postgraduate Research Forum, November 19, 2004.

Improving the Display of Laboratory, Physiological, and Medication Data. Smith, KA; Shelton, DM; and Blakely, R. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 2003 Research Day Graduate and Postgraduate Research Forum, November 14, 2003.