Computational Technology for Effective Health Care Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Committee Members and Staff
Appendix A: Committee Members and Staff
Pages 69-79
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He serves as chief information officer of the Medical Center and chief information architect for the university. The Informatics Center is a unique blend of the units that manage the medical center's information technology infrastructure, the Department of Biomedical Informatics of the School of Medicine (research and education)
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, a focused primary-care-physician-oriented Web site that gathers in a single, easily navigable site a wealth of practical, useful material, including patient care guidelines, therapy information, educational material for patients, and workflow support; and Pulmonary Artery Catheter Waveform Interpretation Tool (PACath) , a program that will provide expert knowledge in interpreting and troubleshooting pulmonary artery catheter waveforms.
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Davidson was involved with planning and administering an NSF-funded research training program in computational biology, which has been run at the University of Pennsylvania since 1995. She also helped establish undergraduate degree programs in bioinformatics and computational biology run through the Department of Biology and Department of Computer and Information Science, as well as tracks in this field in the Master's of Biotechnology degree program.
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Estrin is a professor of computer science with a joint appointment in electrical engineering at UCLA, holds the Jon Postel Chair in Computer Networks, and is founding director of the NSF-funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
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and the Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands) ; the Lifetime Achievement Award from SIGCHI, the professional organization for Computer-Human Interaction; and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science from the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia)
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In policy work, Dr. Sim was the founding project coordinator of the World Health Organization's International Clinical Trials Registry platform, which sets global standards on clinical trial registration and reporting.
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He teaches classes in artificial intelligence, programming languages, medical computing, medical decision making, knowledge-based systems, and probabilistic inference. Professor Szolovits has been on the editorial board of several journals, has served as program chair and on the program committees of national conferences, and has been a founder of and consultant for several companies that apply AI to problems of commercial interest.
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. Prior to his NRC service, he was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee (1986-1990)
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He holds a master's degree in library and information science (2001) from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a bachelor of arts in English (1996)
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