Dipak Kalra, PhD, FRCGP, is President of The European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec). He plays a leading international role in research and development of EHR architectures and systems, including approaches to harmonise clinical meaning and protect privacy, and had led the development of key international standards on EHR interoperability. Dipak leads the Managing Entity (EuroRec) for a €16m Innovative Medicines Initiative on the re-use of electronic health record information for clinical research, EHR4CR, alongside ten global pharmaceutical companies. EuroRec is also a partner in another IMI project, EMIF, on the development of a European clinical research platform federating multiple population health and cohort studies. Dipak also leads an EU Network of Excellence on semantic interoperability, and is a partner in other EU projects on the sustainability of interoperability assets and the transatlantic sharing patient summaries. Dipak is Clinical Professor of Health Informatics at University College London, United Kingdom, a Director of the openEHR Foundation, and a member of standards bodies including CEN, ISO and HL7-UK.
Josiah Macy Jr. Professor of Medical Education
Chair, Department of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School
Professor of Information and Public Health
University of Michigan
Charles Friedman is the Josiah Macy Jr. Professor of Medical Education and Chair of the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. He joined the University of Michigan in September of 2011 as Professor of Information and Public Health, and Director of the Michigan health informatics program. Throughout his career, Dr. Friedman's primary academic interests have intertwined biomedical and health informatics with the processes of education and learning.
Dr. Friedman's department is a "first in the nation" medical school academic department dedicated to the sciences of learning at all levels from scale: from learning by individuals, to learning by teams and organizations, and learning by ultra-large scale systems such as entire nations.
Prior to coming to Michigan, Friedman held executive positions at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: from 2007 to 2009 as Deputy National Coordinator and from 2009 to 2011 as ONC's Chief Scientific Officer. While at ONC, Friedman oversaw a diverse portfolio that included early steps toward development of a nationwide Learning Health System, education of the nation's health IT workforce, research to improve health IT, program evaluation, and international collaboration. He was the lead author of the first national health IT strategic plan which was released in June of 2008, and led the development of an EU-US Memorandum of Understanding on eHealth.
Prior to his work in the government, Dr. Friedman was Associate Vice Chancellor for Biomedical Informatics, and Founding Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. Earlier in his career, he held faculty positions and several administrative roles in medical education and informatics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Harvard Medical School
Department of Population Medicine
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Dr. Brown is an Associate Professor and Director of Scientific Systems in the Department of Population Medicine (DPM) at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He is Research Director of the Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease program at DPM and Associate Director of the FDA’s Mini-Sentinel project. Dr. Brown is a health services researcher with expertise in pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, with primary research activities involving the development of new methodologies and techniques to facilitate multi-institutional drug and vaccine safety surveillance using automated healthcare administrative and claims data, including the application of sequential analytic and data mining methodologies. Dr. Brown is the lead architect of PopMedNet (www.popmednet.org), an open-source software platform that facilitates the creation and operation of large-scale distributed health data networks. He is co-chair of the Informatics Core of the NCI Cancer Research Network and of the EHR Core of the NIH Health Care System Research Collaboratory. Dr. Brown holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Tufts University and a PhD in Social Policy from Brandeis University.
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Dr. Musen is Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University, where he is Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. Dr. Musen conducts research related to intelligent systems, reusable ontologies, metadata for publication of scientific data sets, and biomedical decision support. His group developed Protégé, the world's most widely used technology for building and managing terminologies and ontologies. He is principal investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, one of the original National Centers for Biomedical Computing created by the U.S. National Institutes of Heath (NIH). He is principal investigator of the Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR). CEDAR is a center of excellence supported by the NIH Big Data to Knowledge Initiative, with the goal of developing new technology to ease the authoring and management of biomedical experimental metadata. Dr. Musen chairs the Health Informatics and Modeling Topic Advisory Group for the World Health Organization's revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and he directs the WHO Collaborating Center for Classification, Terminology, and Standards at Stanford University.
Early in his career, Dr. Musen received the Young Investigator Award for Research in Medical Knowledge Systems from the American Association of Medical Systems and Informatics and a Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. In 2006, he was recipient of the Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical Informatics Association. He has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics and the Association of American Physicians. He is founding co-editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Ontology.