The first annual Western New York GIS Day was held August 15, 2012, at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. The meeting’s objective was to advance the use of GIS and spatial analysis to improve public health, health services, health planning and health research, and was the product of a collaboration between the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) and Buffalo State University.
Speakers included Gale R. Burstein, MD, and Congresswoman Kathy Hochul, with keynote addresses by William F. Wieczorek, PhD, Director and Professor, Center for Health and Social Research, Buffalo State College, and Geoffrey M. Jacquez, PhD, Professor, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo and President, BioMedware.