Preface

These are the proceedings of KR-MED 2008, the Third International Conference on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation, held in Phoenix, Arizona on May 31 – June 2, 2008. The conference is co-organized by the Working Group on Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), and collocated with the 2008 AMIA Spring Congress.