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Appendix C: Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix C: Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 132-145
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He is also adjunct professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University. Previously he was a professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (2009-2011)
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He is the editor in chief of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and serves on the editorial boards for several other biomedical informatics publications. In addition, he received the Grace Murray Hopper Award of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1976 and the Morris F
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Dr. Detmer's research interests include national and international health information and communications policy, quality improvement, administrative medicine, vascular surgery, the education of clinician-executives, and leadership of academic health sciences centers.
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. He has been a member of the board of the American Medical Informatics Association and is the former president of the eHealth Initiative Board and a fellow of HIMSS, CHIME, and the American College of Medical Informatics.
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; on Garlic, a system that allowed federation of heterogeneous data sources; and on Clio, the first semiautomatic tool for heterogeneous schema mapping. Garlic tech nology, married with DB2 UDB query processing, is the basis for the IBM WebSphere Information Server's federation capabilities, while Clio capabilities are a core differentiator in IBM's Rational Data Architect.
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in mathematics from the Stony Brook University in 1984. George Hripcsak is Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor and chair of Columbia University's Department of Biomedical Informatics, director of Medi cal Informatics Services for New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and senior informatics advisor at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
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Since the 1990s, Mr. Muller's voice has been at the forefront of the national dialogue and debate on such important health policy issues as the social role of teaching hospitals and medical schools, federal and state payments for patient care and care of the uninsured, and the creation of patient-oriented medical care systems.
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Professor Osterweil is a fellow of the ACM. He is a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Software Process Improvement and Practice, Automated Software Engineering, and the International Journal of Software and Informatics.
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She also has extensive experience in educating and engaging members of vulnerable populations. With respect to health information technology, her relevant assignments include appointments to the National eHealth Collaborative Membership and Communications Committee and its predecessor, AHIC Successor Inc.; appointment to the Health Information Communication and Data Exchange Taskforce of the State Alliance for E-Health, National Governors Association; and service from 2007 to 2010 as a board-appointed member of the HIMSS Public Policy Steering Com mittee.
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Dr. Suarez has provided project management, technical and policy consulting services and project and program evaluation services to health care provider organizations, health plans, Medicaid and Medicare programs, public health agencies, and vendors in the areas of health information technology/ health information exchange, public health data standards, health dis parities, quality measurement, health information privacy and security standards, and HIPAA standards, including Transactions and Code Sets and the National Provider Identifier.
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He has also served actively in several national organizations, including as a member of the board of directors of the former Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) , where he co-chaired the Security, Privacy and Infrastructure Technical Committee, the Clinical Research Tiger Team, and the HITSP Education, Communications and Outreach Committee; co-chair of the Privacy and Compliance Workgroup of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology; founding president of the Public Health Data Standards Consortium; member of the executive board of the Joint Public Health Informatics Task Force; and member of the National Uni form Claims Committee.
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Professor Szolovits was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American Col lege of Medical Informatics, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He serves as a member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.
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, National Research Council of the National Academies. She currently directs several CSTB projects, including a comprehensive exploration of sustaining growth in computing performance and an examination of opportunities for computing research to help meet sustainability challenges.
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Prior to joining CSTB, he was a realtor with Long and Foster Real Estate, Inc., in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Before that, he spent several years with the Public Broadcasting Service in Alexandria, Virginia, as an associate in the Corporate Support Department.
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