Dean is the creator and editor of The Informatics Review. He works for Northwest Permanente Medical Group which is associated with the Kaiser Permanente Hospitals and Health Plan as their Director of Applied Research in Medical Informatics. He lives in Portland OR. He previously worked for the Knowledge Technology group at Healtheon/WebMD in Portland, OR. While there he was investigating various aspects of the use of the Internet for the provision of health care. Prior to this he worked in the Clinical Systems Research & Development group within the Information Systems department of Partners HealthCare System in Boston, MA. He was responsible for the design and development of the Clinical Application Suite, an integrated software architecture that facilitates the maintenance of the patient and user context as one switches between applications. Prior to joining Partners, Dean worked with Perry Miller in the Anesthesiology department at Yale University and with Bill Stead in the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University. He has had a wide range of experiences within the field of Medical Informatics since receiving his Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from The University of Utah where he worked under the direction of Reed M. Gardner, Alan H. Morris, and Terry P. Clemmer at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informaticsand a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research at the Oregon Health Sciences University. Click here to see of list of his publications from Medline... Publications by Dean F. Sittig in PubMed.

Dr. William F. Bria is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor. He is a member of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the Department of Medicine and has a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine and the Medical Center Information Technology department. Dr. Bria is a Fellow in the American College of Chest Physicians and he is the Medical co-Director of the Medical ICU and Asthma Airways program at the University of Michigan Medical Center.

Dr. Bria has been a leader in Applied Medical Informatics for over 15 years. He has authored many articles on informatics and the book The Physician Computer Connection, now in its second edition. Dr. Bria has been a consultant for the Institute of Medicine on the Computerized Patient Record and to the United States Congress on matters of the application of information technology to the practice of medicine. He has lectured on medical informatics throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Dr. Bria is the past president of the Medical Information Systems Physicians Association, currently on the advisory board of the National Managed Healthcare Conference and the editorial board of Healthcare Informatics and special advisory panel of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. He is a member of the Information Advisory Panel of the American College of Chest Physicians. He is currently the President of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS).

John R. Christiansen is an attorney with Christiansen IT Law, where he focuses on the implementation and management of information technologies for healthcare uses, with an emphasis on privacy and security regulatory compliance and risk management. John works with a variety of Pacific Northwest and national healthcare organizations in this field, including hospital systems, health systems, clinicians and services providers. One of his major projects for 2005-2007 is service as one of the leaders of the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration, a team partnering with the National Governor's Association to develop solutions for legal and practical obstacles to Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) under a grant fro the U.S. Departmetn of Health and Human Services. John is a frequent national speaker and regularly publishes on healthcare technology issues; his most recent book is An Integrated Standard of Care for Healthcare Information Security: HIPAA, Risk Management and Beyond (2005), the definitive legal treatise on security obligations applicable to healthcare information.

Enrico Coiera is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. He completed his medical degree at the University of Sydney in 1983 and a PhD in Computer Science at the University of New South Wales in 1989. He worked as a senior research scientist at the Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol from 1990-99 focussing on health-care information and communciation systems.

He is the author of The Guide to Medical Informatics, the Internet and Telemedicine, (www.coiera.com) and his current research interests include guideline-based clinical decison support and clinical communication support. In the past he has also worked actively on Artificial Intelligence techniques for clinical monitoring systems.

Dr. Gibson attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University. After family practice residency he practiced family medicine, then emergency medicine, for seven years in Washington State. With Board Certification in both Family Practice and Emergency Medicine, he continues to practice in Portland. He completed a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics at LDS Hospital and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1995. He came to Providence Health System (PHS) in 1996.

As Medical Director of Information Services for a group of six Oregon hospitals, a 300,000-member captitated health plan, and 145 employed primary care physicians and 45 residents, Dr. Gibson is responsible for planning and implementing clinical information systems in both the hospital and office arenas. Although PHS does not develop systems in-house, Dr. Gibson serves as a development partner with HBO and Company and with MedicaLogic, vendor of Logician, an office electronic medical record.

Current tasks include installing Logician in the offices of the employed physicians, improving the patient results review applications, building a physician Intranet, analyzing physician practice patterns using administrative and clinical data, and electronically connecting PHS to physician offices using telephone lines, wide area networks, and the Internet.

Goals include facilitating physician communication electronically, gradually improving health care with information system feedback to the physician at the time that physicians make clinical decisions, as well as improving clinical practice by using merged outpatient and inpatient data. His challenges include providing information services in Oregon's highly managed care environment for 1500 largely private practice-based physicians, many of whom have no clinical information systems in their office.

Joseph W. Hales is an Assistant Professor of Health Management and Informatics and Director of the Health Informatics Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Hales completed a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University and holds a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the University of Utah. Before coming to MU, Dr. Hales served on the research faculty in Medical Informatics at Duke University for over seven years where he is also the Associate Director of the Duke Training Program in Medical Informatics. Dr. Hales' research activities focus on knowledge representation for computer-based patient records, on consumer health informatics, and on medical informatics education.

Dr. Hales serves as a member of the Board of Directors, as well as the chair of the Education Committee of the American Medical Informatics Association and recently served on the task force to develop medical informatics competencies as part of the Medical School Objectives Project of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

In the early 1980s Bob Hogan MD designed and developed with Williams and Wilkens one of the earliest programs marketed for Clinicians, the Drug Interaction Adviser. He subsequently organized the first scholarly clinical software review feature in the United States for the Journal of the American Medical Association, and has subsequently served as the first Software Adviser at JAMA.

His contributions to the literature of biomedical informatics include numerous software critiques for JAMA, editorials and other descriptive overviews for publications including JAMA, American Medical News, California Physician, HMO Practice and Medical Economics. Currently he is practicing full time in the Departments of Preventive Medicine, Family Medicine and Urgent Care as a Partner in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, San Diego Ca. He is sought after as a peer reviewer, consultant and lecturer.

Gil Kuperman is a clinical systems designer at Partners HealthCare System in Boston, MA and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kuperman has developed and implemented a variety of real-time clinical decision support features into the clinical applications at Partners. He collaborators with researchers at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health to measure the impact of information technology on the process and outcomes of medical care. He has a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the University of Utah. Prior to becoming a full-time Medical Informatician, he practiced medicine as a general practitioner.

David Masuda completed a National Library of Medicine Fellowship in Applied Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Washington in 1997 where he focused on a number of projects including the UW Rural Telemedicine Research Project and IAIMS, the Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems Project.

Upon completing the fellowship, Dr. Masuda continued in a faculty position at UW, currently holding a joint appointment as lecturer in the Department of Medical Education and the Department of Health Services. He also holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His teaching interests include general and administrative Health Informatics in both postgraduate and executive Masters programs, as well as curriculum development in Masters programs in Health Services Management and Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Washington.

Dr. Ong is the Director for Medical Informatics at Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers, an IDN that serves New York City. Designing and developing the enterprise-wide Intranet is one of his major responsibilities.

He was recently interviewed in Health Data Managementand published a survey of hospital websites in the Greater New York City area in the Journal of Information Technology in Medicine.

Dr Ong is from Detroit, Michigan. After obtaining his BS from the University of Michigan and MD from Wayne State University, he came to New York City in 1976 to continue his medical training. He completed residency in Family Practice at Montefiore Hospital, Internal Medicine at Brooklyn and LaGuardia Hospitals, and Infectious Diseases at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. He is board certified in those fields and a Fellow in the American College of Physicians, Infectious Disease Society of America, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He acquired his Masters in Public Health from Columbia University and is presently an Assistant Professor in Clinical Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

His past experience includes research and clinical practice in HIV and tuberculosis, for which he received the Charles C. Shepard Science Award from the Federal Centers for Disease Control in 1993. He is a former deputy health commissioner for the New York City Health Department. He has published numerous articles in infectious diseases and a few in the nautical literature. His responsibilities have included : teaching infectious diseases, participating in the AIDS center program, grant-related programs for tuberculosis, HIV, and substance abuse, quality assurance, risk and care management.