Discovery and Innovation in Health IT - Speaker Bios
Richard Bucholz, MD
Richard D. Bucholz is a professor and director of neurosurgery at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He received his bachelor’s degree in molecular biochemistry and biophysics from Yale University in 1973, and subsequently earned his MD from Yale in 1977. He was an Instructor at Yale in 1982-83 before accepting a position of assistant professor at the St. Louis University School of Medicine. He was certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 1985, was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1991, and became a full professor in 1996. He specializes in cranial surgery, specifically neuro-oncology, epilepsy surgery, functional surgery, and stereotactic radiosurgery. Dr. Bucholz is a member of several medical societies, including the American Association of Neurological Surgery and the Society of Neurological Surgeons; is editor in chief of Computer Aided Surgery; and is an advisor for several corporations. He is a recipient of the James B. Eads Award for innovation in engineering and technology from the Academy of Science of Saint Louis. His laboratory is currently pursuing the realtime intraoperative delivery of information via navigational systems, and developing the network infrastructure necessary for this delivery. His clinical research covers functional imaging of head injury caused by blast injuries, electrical stimulation for the management of psychiatric disorders, and application of sterotactic radiosurgery to extracranial lesions.
Bill Rouse, PhD
William B. Rouse is a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds a joint appointment within the College of Computing. He also serves as Executive Director of the university-wide Tennenbaum Institute for Enterprise Transformation. Rouse has over 30 years of experience in research, education, management, marketing, and engineering related to individual and organizational performance, decision support systems, and information systems. He has consulted with over 100 large and small enterprises in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, where he has worked with several thousand executives and senior managers. His expertise includes individual and organizational decision making and problem solving, as well as design of organizations and information systems. Rouse has written hundreds of articles and book chapters, and has authored or edited many books. Among many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research Council and as a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. Rouse is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a fellow of four professional societies—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Council on Systems Engineering, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He has received the Joseph Wohl Outstanding Career Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; a Centennial Medal and a Third Millennium Medal from IEEE; and the O. Hugo Schuck Award from the American Automation Control Council. Rouse received his BS from the University of Rhode Island, and his SM and PhD from MIT. [ More ]
Latanya Sweeney, PhD
Latanya Sweeney, PhD, is a Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She also founded and serves as the Director of the Data Privacy Lab, which works with real-world stakeholders to solve today’s privacy technology problems. She was recently appointed to the Privacy and Security Seat of the Federal HIT Policy Committee, the group responsible for advising ONC on policy for the new national health information infrastructure. Dr. Sweeney's work involves creating technologies and related policies with provable guarantees of privacy protection while allowing society to collect and share person-specific information for many worthy purposes. She has made numerous discoveries related to identifiability and privacy technologies and she has had significant impact on American privacy policy. Her work has received awards from numerous organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Informatics Association, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Dr. Sweeney’s work has appeared in hundreds of news articles, numerous academic papers, and was even cited in the original publication of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Companies have licensed and continue to use her privacy technologies. Dr. Sweeney received her PhD in computer science from MIT in 2001. Her undergraduate degree in computer science was completed at Harvard University where she graduated cum laude. [ More ]
Bill Stead, MD
William W. Stead is Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Chief Strategy and Information Officer, McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. He received his BA, MD, and training in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at Duke University. His interest in systems to support health care dates to 1968. He moved to Vanderbilt University in 1991 and assembled a team that has translated informatics research into approaches to information infrastructure that reduce cost to implement and barriers to adoption. The resulting enterprise-wide electronic patient chart and communication/decision support tools support his current focus on system-supported, evidence-based practice and research leading toward personalized medicine. He is a Founding Fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Institute for Engineering in Biology and Medicine, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He served as Chairman of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, as a Presidential appointee to the Commission on Systemic Interoperability, and as co-editor of the NRC report Computational Technology for Effective Healthcare: immediate steps and strategic directions. He is a member of the Council of the Institute of Medicine. [ More ]
Dietrich Stephan, PhD
Dietrich Stephan is a human geneticist who works to understand the root causes of common human diseases so that early diagnostics and interventions can be implemented. Dr. Stephan most recently was the deputy director of discovery research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute and still holds a faculty appointment there. Dr. Stephan has identified genes that predispose to disorders such as autism, exercise-induced heart attacks and sudden infant death syndrome, and contributed to understanding a multitude of common "complex genetic" disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Stephan is chairman of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Neuroscience Microarray Consortium, and has previously held faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins University, the National Human Genome Research Institute of the NIH, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, George Washington University and the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Stephan has published extensively in journals such as Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics and the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Stephan received his BS at Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, and trained as a fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute of the NIH. [ More ]
Craig Feied, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, FACPh
Craig F. Feied is Chief Strategy Officer for the Microsoft Health Solutions Group and Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, as well as a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and the American College of Phlebology. He graduated in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley with an AB in Biophysics, and received his MD in 1982 from the University of California, San Diego. He was a member of the faculty at George Washington University from 1985 until 1995. Dr. Feied was a cofounder of the Informatics Section of the American College of Emergency Medicine. He was the first emergency physician in the United States to hold a position as Director of Informatics, and first to head an institute of medical informatics. He was Founding Director of the ER One Institutes for Innovation in Medicine in Washington, DC. Over the past three decades Dr. Feied has directed more than 100 technology projects in the area of medical informatics, and he has published many articles and book chapters in biomedical informatics, Emergency Medicine and venous thromboembolic disease. While at the Institute for Medical Informatics, a division of the ER One Institutes for Innovation in Medicine, Dr. Feied developed a unique practical software architecture ("Azyxxi") for the rapid integration, organization, display, and mining of all data present in any medical setting in real time. Azyxxi was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in 2006 as the enterprise core of a new Health Solutions Group, and in 2008 the system was renamed "Amalga."
