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Brief Resume
Interests:
Develop the next generation clinical information systems using web-based
multi-media technologies and very high-speed communication technologies. The next
generation health information systems will require an infrastructure that combines
traditional packet switching, circuit switching, and broadcasting in an intelligent,
secure, and mobile manner. Intelligent information systems will utilize information about
the user (e.g., physician) and his/her information domain (e.g., patient) to optimize the
network use by guaranteeing the quality of communication services. A secure information
infrastructure requires user to identify themselves and the system will generate log file
that can be audited. A mobile system allows users to access information resources while on
route within buildings, between buildings, or even between cities.
Experience:
Extensive experience in the information infrastructure of the health information
system and the US healthcare system in general. Detailed knowledge of client/server
systems and Web-based systems using Microsoft's software and operating systems. Long
experience in developing and using M-Technology (MUMPS) databases and the US Veterans
Administration's DHCP, Department of Defense CHCS, and the Indian Health Service patient
record systems.
1998 – present
Title:
Professor and Director, Health Informatics Program, Department of Health Services
Administration, School of Health Related Professions
Company: The University of
Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, Alabama
Report to: Chair of
Department (Dr. S. Robert Hernandez, Dr.P.H.)
Description:
 | Direct and manage a graduate program of approximately 50 graduate students. The program is unique for producing
strategic managers
directing health information systems in health care organizations. |
| Revise Curriculum to accommodate three tracks: Strategic IS
Management, Technical Infrastructure and Systems Development, and
Information Utilization . |
1993 – 1998
Title:
Professor of Medical Informatics
Company: University of Utah
Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Report to: Chair of
Department (Drs. Homer R. Warner and Reed M. Gardner)
Description:
| Developed, under Dr. Homer R. Warner’s direction, the "Advanced Clinical
Information System" (ACIS) and deployed it in several outpatient clinics of the
University of Utah Health Science Center. |
| Managed the enterprise-wide capture of clinical reports and other narratives from
dictation to direct data entry for ACIS, the computer-based patient data repository. |
| Taught graduate level courses in Medical Informatics and Emerging Communication
Technologies in Health Information Systems. |
| Added, as Series Editor, several monographs to the Springer-Verlag Series: Computers and
Medicine. |
| Chaired admissions committees (1994-97), organized departmental seminars (1997-98). |
1972 – 1995
Title:
Professor of Computer Medicine
Company: George
Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC
Report to: Chair of
Department (Drs. William S. Yamamoto and Thomas E. Piemme)
Description:
| Taught medical students and physicians/nurses in Informatics principles
and concepts. |
| Investigated information integration and computer networking. |
| Established (with others) the field of "Medical Informatics" by
founding and guiding SCAMC (Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care), the
largest academically oriented annual congress in the US. SCAMC evolved to AMIA (American
Medical Informatics Association) Fall Congress. |
| Managed the Computers and Medicine Monographs; Springer-Verlag New York. |
| Consultant to several governmental (NIH, Department of Defense, Veterans
Administration, World Bank) and commercial organizations. |
1978 – 1993 (administrative accomplishments)
Title:
Director, Office of Academic Computer Services
Company: George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
Report to: Dean of
Medical School (Drs. Scott, Bowles, Keimowitz)
Description
| Provide computer support and operational services to the educational
enterprise of the George Washington University School of Medicine. This includes: |
| Developed the Automated Himmelfarb Library (HAL) with library staff,
maintain and operate its infrastructure (networks, workstations, dial-up access,
security). |
| Developed and operated an Educational Testing Service for the teaching
faculty of the School of Medicine. Included development (with faculty) of a test item data
bank; production of examination booklets; scoring of examinations; and integrating the
scores & grades into a Grades Management System. The types of examinations included
patient simulations, traditional multiple-choice tests with randomized question orders. |
| Developed a Grades Management System for all medical students. |
| Developed a Clerkship Evaluation System medical student. |
| Developed and maintained a Course Evaluation System for the Office of
Education. |
| Developed and maintained a Continuing Medical Education (CME) system. |
| Developed and maintained a Conference Management System for SCAMC
(1977-89) and the 5th World Congress of Medical Informatics, International Medical
Informatics Association (IMIA) (1986). |
Honors and Awards:
| Appointment to the Biomedical Library Review Committee, NLM, NIH by the Director of the
NLM for a four-year term (1997- 2001). |
| Award by the Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory: Outstanding
Publication in the category of scientific and technical books (1991). |
| Election to Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) (1984). |
| Tenure, George Washington University, Department of Computer Medicine (1979). |
Other:
| Expert knowledge of the US healthcare system and the clinical information infrastructure
of hospitals and ambulatory care clinics. |
| Deep understanding of the architectural components of the next generation health
information systems requirements: Vocabulary & clinical concept servers, diagnostic
and therapeutic expert systems, robust information gateways, user interfaces, security
issues and functional requirements of many departmental systems such as radiology,
clinical and anatomic laboratory, pharmacy, dictation, dietetics, biomedical engineering,
etc. |
| Very familiar with the M (MUMPS) database technology (about 60-80% of the US health care
institutions still use this technology), client/server and Web technologies of Microsoft. |
| Very familiar with several legacy information systems: COSTAR (Harvard University); DHCP
(now VISTA) of the Veterans Administration; CHCS of the Department of Defense; CPRS of the
Indian Health Service; several systems developed by academic institutions (HELP, RPMS,
Brigham & Women's System, TMR, etc.) in the United States and Europe, as well as a
number of commercial systems. |
| Expert knowledge of emerging communication technologies (ATM, ADSL, ISDN, Fast and
Gigabit Ethernet, and wireless technologies, etc.) that are and will be important in the
next generation Web-based health information systems. |
| Fluent in German (native language) |
Curriculum Vitae: Available on paper and via
e-mail
Bibliography: Included with CV
References: Available on paper and via e-mail. |
