Abstract
Scientific session presentations (http://apiii.upmc.edu/abstracts/2009_sci.cfm) and electronic poster presentations (http://apiii.upmc.edu/abstracts/2009_ep.cfm) were conducted at the 14th annual international conference on Advancing Practice, Instruction, and Innovation Through Informatics (APIII 2009) on September 20–23, 2009, at the Marriott City Center Hotel, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The course director was Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The course codirectors were John R. Gilbertson, MD, Harvard Medical School and Ulysses J. Balis, MD, University of Michigan Health System. The scientific session director was David J. Foran, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The practical informatics course directors were John Sinard, MD, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine, and Anil Parwani, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.