R. Scott Evans, MS, PhD
R. Scott Evans is in the Department of Medical Informatics at Intermountain Health Care and is the Director of Research for the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, LDS Hospital, and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Utah. Dr. Evans received his BS degree in Biology and MS degree in Microbiology/Parasitology from Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in Medical Biophysics and Computing from the University of Utah.
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His major experience and interests have been in the design, development, and evaluation of computerized tools for the selection and management of anti-infective agents, computer methods to identify and reduce adverse drug events, computerized methods to identify patients needing isolation, and computerized methods to identify and reduce hospital-acquired infections. A number of these computerized tools are clinically operational at several hospitals at Intermountain Health Care.
He was a finalist and third place winner in the Student Paper Competition, 1984, Eighth Annual SCAMC. In 1992, he won the Best Paper on an Application, Sixteenth Annual SCAMC, and in 1993 he received the Priscilla M. Mayden Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Medical Informatics. In 1997, he received the Oslers Cloak Excellence in Caring and Curing Award from Intermountain Health Care. Dr. Evans was on the Fall AMIA Program Committees in 1995 and 1997 and the AMIA Awards Committee.
Stanley M. Huff, MD
Stanley M. Huff is a Senior Medical Informaticist at Intermountain Health Care and an Associate Professor (Clinical) in Medical Informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Huff received his BS degree in Chemistry from Brigham Young University and his MD degree from the University of Utah.
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Immediately after completing his residency training, he worked for two years with AT&T Bell Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio. He is currently working on the design and implementation of vocabulary services and the database architecture for a lifetime patient data repository. His academic interests center on medical vocabularies, clinical information models, and medical database architectures. He was one of the participants in the early UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) contracts and is a contributing member to the HL7 (Health Level Seven) and IEEE Medix standards groups, and he is currently one of the co-chairs of HL7's Vocabulary Special Interest Group. He was also a founding member of the LOINC (Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes) committee.
Dr. Huff is a fellow of the American Board of Pathologists and of the College of American Pathologists. He is also a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Standards Committee, a member of the Board of Directors of HL7, and an advisor to the SNOMED (Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine) Editorial Board.
Suzanne Bakken Henry, RN, DNSc
Suzanne Bakken Henry is Associate Professor, Nursing and Medical Information Science, at the University of California, San Francisco. She serves on the Executive Committee of the MIS Program and heads the focal area in Knowledge Management. Dr. Henry received her BSN from Arizona State University. Following her doctoral degree in nursing science from the University of California, San Francisco, she completed a NLM-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical Informatics at the Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Dr. Henry's research has focused on the intersection of informatics and quality management. Early studies described the clinical decision-making process using computer simulations. More recent efforts have focused on concept representation for computerbased systems in order to provide the infrastructure to link patient problems, interventions, and outcomes across settings and over time. She is currently conducting comparative evaluations of selected coding and classification systems using clinical data extracted from patient records. The findings of her research have targeted areas for the development and refinement of coding and classification systems.
Dr. Henry was selected as a Fellow, American Academy of Nursing in 1995. She serves as a member of the American Nurses Association Steering Committee on Databases to Support Clinical Nursing Practice and as a consultant to the SNOMED Editorial Board. She is a member of the AMIA Awards Committee, Standards Committee, and Nursing Working Group, as well as the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Cornelius Rosse, MD, DSc
Cornelius Rosse is a Professor of Biological Structure at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He received his BSc degree in anatomy with honors, and his medical degree (MB, ChB) from the University of Bristol, England. The same university also granted him both the MD and DSc degrees in recognition of his research on hematopoietic cell differentiation and lymphocyte biology.
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Dr. Rosse has combined his biological research with medical education and administration. Until recently, he was Chairman of the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington. He has published three textbooks related to anatomy, taught anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and has worked extensively with the National Board of Medical Examiners. More recently, Dr. Rosse has focused his research interests on knowledge representation in anatomy. He established the Digital Anatomist Program at the University of Washington, which has served as an impetus and prototype for the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. In collaboration with investigators from computer science, informatics, and clinical medicine, the laboratory pursues spatial and symbolic modeling of anatomy in parallel. These knowledge sources are integrated and made available on-line for anatomy education as a test bed for an information system.
Dr. Rosse is a member of the Biomedical Library Review Committee of NLM, serves on the Executive Board of the National Board of Medical Examiners and has been elected a Fellow of AAAS. Dr. Rosse's contributions to education have been recognized by numerous teaching awards at the University of Washington, and he has also received the national Distinguished Basic Science Teacher Award from the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD
J. Marc Overhage is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and an Investigator at the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care. Dr. Overhage is also a staff physician at Wishard and Indiana University Hospitals. Dr. Overhage received his MD and PhD from the Indiana University School of Medicine.
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After completing fellowship training in medical informatics with Dr. Clement J. McDonald and in clinical pharmacology, Dr. Overhage served as an Information Advisor for Eli Lilly & Company, a major pharmaceutical and information company. Dr. Overhage has more than 15 years of computing experience, including developing one of the earliest commercial object-oriented database systems and real-time data acquisition and control systems. He has applied this experience to the evolution of the Regenstrief Medical Record System, which has been used for more than 25 years and is evolving toward a city-wide electronic patient record. While he has broad interests in the use of informational interventions to modify physician behavior, development of rule-based systems to implement guidelines and protocols has been a major focus of Dr. Overhage's research for the last seven years. Using these tools he is completing two large-scale studies of implementing guidelines in the outpatient and inpatient settings, which examine the impact of process measures, costs, and patient outcomes.
Dr. Overhage is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association Meetings Committee.
Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD
Dr. Kohane is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and an Associate in Medicine in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at Children's Hospital in Boston. He is also a Research Affiliate at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and a founding member of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Center for Outcomes and Policy Research. He received a ScB with Honors in Biology at Brown University. He pursued research in knowledge-based systems at the Clinical Decision-Making Group, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, under the auspices of the Boston University MD, PhD program, and he received both degrees.
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He completed a residency in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital in Boston followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology. He became director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) in 1995. In 1991, Dr. Kohane completed implementation of the Clinician's Workstation (CWS) at Children's Hospital, which has been in operation since then in several specialty clinics. The CWS has been successfully used for several clinical research projects in addition to its primary role as a pediatric record system. Dr. Kohane was chief architect of the World Wide Web Electronic Medical Record System (W3-EMRS), which has been the foundation of several multi-institutional implementations and collaborations. He was instrumental in organizing a collaboration among several Boston teaching hospitals, the Boston EMR Collaborative, which has led to the identification of several significant problems in multi-institutional data sharing as well as the articulation of a model confidentiality policy. Other contributions in medical informatics include research into temporal reasoning and trend detection.
Dr. Kohane has chaired the two most recent spring symposia on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Stanford University, sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
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Ove B. Wigertz, DSc, DMedSc
Ove Wigertz is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medical Informatics and a member of both the Health Science Faculty and the Engineering School Faculty at Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. He received a Master of Electrical Engineering degree and a Doctor of Science degree in Automatic Control from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He also received a Doctor of Medical Science degree in Physiology from Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
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Dr. Wigertz has held positions as teacher, research associate, and associate professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, until his move to Linköping University in January 1973 to set up one of the first Departments of Medical Informatics in Europe. Other commissions have been as Chairman of the Swedish Association of Academic Professors (1991-94), Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University (1993-96), Chairman of the Swedish Society of Biomedical Physics and Engineering (1975-77), and Chairman of the Swedish Society of Medical Informatics (1978-81).
Dr. Wigertz has done considerable basic and applied research in biomedical engineering and instrumentation, cardiovascular and work physiology, and several medical informatics fields, including knowledge-based representation, knowledge-based systems, and controlled vocabularies.
In 1967, Dr. Wigertz received the annual Erna Ebeling Fund Prize from the Swedish Society of Medical Sciences for achievement in the design and development of instruments and systems for physiologic research. Together with research associates and students, he won the Gold Medal (the prize for one of the three best papers) at MEDINFO 80 in Tokyo, Japan, as well as the Gold Medal (the prize for the best paper) at MEDINFO 95 in Vancouver, Canada.
Jeremy Wyatt, MD, MRCP, DM
Dr. Jeremy C. Wyatt is Senior Fellow in Health and Public Policy, University College, London, and Director of the Health Knowledge Management Programme, School of Public Policy, ULC. He is also Senior Fellow, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford University. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and physiology and a doctorate of medicine from Oxford University, and a bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery from London University, and he is a member by examination of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow.
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He was previously Consultant in Medical Informatics to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 1992-97, and Medical Research Council Visiting Fellow, Section for Medical Informatics, Stanford University, 1991-92. A practicing physician, his main interest is developing and evaluating decision-support systems and other methods for disseminating and implementing clinical knowledge. He has conducted three randomized-controlled trials of knowledge dissemination techniques and founded a Cochrane Collaboration review group in this area. He is also keen for greater clinical involvement in the development and procurement of clinical information systems. He collaborates closely with clinical epidemiologists, medical statisticians, psychologists, and computer scientists, other interests include computer tools to assist in the design and management of clinical trials and factors limiting the clinical uptake of prognostic models.
Dr. Wyatt is an editorial adviser to the British Medical Journal; an adviser to the National Audit Office and Audit Commission; team leader, Technology Fore-Sight exercise; vice chair, British Medical Informatics Society; member, U.K. Health Technology Assessment Commissioning Board; and former member of the Royal College of Physicians Medical Informatics Committee. He serves as an adviser to the Council of Europe and European Union on evidence-based medicine and oncology telematics. Dr. Wyatt is President of the European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. He was keynote lecturer at the NSF/NLM workshop on evaluation of clinical knowledge systems in 1995 and was Deseret Foundation scholar, LDS Hospital, in 1992. He is a member of the Programme Committee of the 9th World Conference on Medical Informatics.
Jean-Raoul Scherrer, MD, PhD
Professor Scherrer is a certified internist who received his MD from Geneva University Medical School in 1959. He became laureate of the Geneva Medical School for his doctorate thesis in 1965.
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From 1967 to 1969, he collaborated in research in physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. He became a lecturer on medical informatics at the Geneva University Medical School in 1971 and a full professor at the same medical school in 1979. He is Director of Medical Informatics at the Geneva University Hospital. He has participated in the development of the DIOGENE system since the design stage in the 1970s. Dr. Scherrer is also interested in mathematical modeling and automatic encoding of clinical narratives.
Dr. Scherrer was Executive Vice President of IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association) in charge of Working Groups and Special Interest Groups from 1993 to 1996: In January 1996, he became President of the EFMI (European Federation of Medical Informatics).