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Membership on DHHS Study Sections
| 1999-Present |
Biomedical Library Review Committee, National Library of Medicine, NIH |
| 1991-1995 |
Health Care Technology Study Section, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research |
| 1984-1988 |
Biomedical Library Review Committee, National Library of Medicine, NIH |
Membership on Advisory Boards and Panels
| 1991-1992 |
Member, National Library of Medicine Long Range Planning Task Force on Toxicology and the Environment. |
| 1987-1989 |
Member, Medical Advisory Board, Computer-Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Therapy Foundation (CAMDAT), Inc. (A private, now-defunct nonprofit foundation sponsoring research in Medical Informatics headed by Mr. Paul Mongerson). |
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Membership on Editorial Boards
| 1993-present |
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association |
| 1988-present |
Editorial Board, Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer, Germany |
| 1988-1996 |
Editorial Board, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Burgverlag, FRG; Elsevier, Holland |
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Membership on Program Committees,
National Meetings, and Organizations
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1998-1999 |
Chairman, AMIA Ad Hoc Bylaws Committee |
| 1997 |
Program Committee, AMIA Fall Symposium (National Meeting) |
| 1996-1999 |
AMIA Representative, American College of Physicians Council of Medical Societies |
| 1996-1999 |
Member, AMIA Public Policy Committee |
| 1996 |
Past President, AMIA |
| 1994-1995 |
President, American Medical Informatics Association |
| 1993 |
President-Elect, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) |
| 1993-1996 |
Member, AMIA Executive Committee (Chair 1994-95) |
| 1992-1993 |
Chairman, AMIA Meetings Committee |
| 1991-1992 |
Chairman, AMIA Ad Hoc Bylaws Committee |
| 1990 |
National Meeting Program Chair, Fourteenth Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. |
| 1989-1993 |
Member, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Meetings Committee |
| 1989 |
Chairman, Student Paper Competition, Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 1989 Annual Meeting. |
| 1987 |
Area (Track) Chairman, Artificial Intelligence Section, Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 1987 Annual Meeting. |
| 1986 |
Session Chair, Scientific Demonstration S11, MEDINFO-86. Washington, D.C. |
| 1986 |
Co-chairman, Artificial Intelligence Section, Society for Medical Decision- Making Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois. |
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Participation on Doctoral (PhD) and Masters (MS)Thesis Committees:
| 1996 |
Ph.D. Committee, thesis project: The Functional Modularity of Diagnosis Domain Structure, Jerry Blake Weinberg. Thesis project completed.
Vanderbilt University Department of Computer Science, Nashville, TN. |
| 1994 |
Masters thesis Committee, Intelligent Systems Program, Constantin Aliferis. Masters project completed, May.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA. |
| 1994 |
Masters/PhDCommittee, Katz Graduate School of Business, Gary Gilbert. Medical Informatics Minor. Written and oral examinations given October, 1990. PhD completed.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA. |
| 1993 |
Masters/PhD Committee, Intelligent Systems Program, Arthur DeCillis. Masters project completed, May.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA. |
| 1990 |
Masters Thesis Dissertation Committee of Barry H. Blumenfeld, M.D., Intelligent Systems Studies Program. A Connectionist Approach to the Recognition of Trends in Time- Ordered Medical Parameters. Masters thesis completed, April.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA. |
| 1985 |
Doctoral Dissertation Referee, Lt. Col. N.G. Rao. MEMCONSULT: An Approach to User-Oriented Computer-Assisted Decision-Making in Medicine for Differential Diagnosis and Treatment. Thesis completed, August.
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. |
| 1985 |
Doctoral Thesis Committee of Long Thanh Nguyen. Transferability of a Medical Knowledge Base: A Case Study Between INTERNIST-1 and HELP. Completed, May 14.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City. |
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Participation on University and Hospital Committees:
| 1995-Present |
Member CME Committee,
Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| 1995-Present |
Member, Medical Informatics Subcommittee,
Academic Programs Committee,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
| 1991-1994 |
Member, Curriculum Committee,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
| 1990-1993 |
Member, Presbyterian-University Hospital Credentials Committee, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1990-1991 |
Member, Dean's Testing and Evaluation Task Force,
University of Pittsburgh |
| 1990-1991 |
Member, Dean's Curriculum Revision Goals and Integration Task Force, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1989-1992 |
Chairman, Dean's Committee on Computer Assisted Learning in Medicine, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1988-1994 |
Co-director, University of Pittsburgh IAIMS Executive Committee, University of Pittsburgh; Chairman 1990-1993. |
| 1986-1990 |
Member, Health Center Medical Records Automation Committee,
University of Pittsburgh |
| 1985-1986 |
Member, Search Committee to select Health Center Library Director, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1985-1987 |
Chairman, Health Center Library Committee,
University of Pittsburgh |
| 1985-1987 |
Member, Provost's Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Science,
University of Pittsburgh |
| 1984 |
Member, Dean's advisory committee for use of computers in medical school,
University of Pittsburgh |
| 1983-1986 |
Ad-hoc member, University of Pittsburgh Faculty Senate Computer Advisory Committee,
University of Pittsburgh |
| 1983 |
Member, University of Pittsburgh Long-range Planning Committee For the Future of Academic Computing,
University of Pittsburgh |
| 1981 |
Director, Presbyterian-University Hospital,
Study Group to Investigate the Automation of Medical Records,
Pittsburgh, PA. |
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Review of articles and grant proposals:
| 1998 |
Chair, Ad Hoc study section to review International Medical Informatics Grants for Sub-Saharan Africa; Joint Fogarty International Center and NLM Sponsorship; August |
| 1995 |
Reviewed Grant Proposals for AHCPR, June 1990, January & June 1991 (prior to study section membership); 1995+ (after study section membership). |
| 1989 |
Member of NCHSR Site Visit Team, September |
| 1986 |
Referee for conference presentations/proceedings: SCAMC, 1985-present; Society for Medical Decision-Making |
| 1985 |
Member of NIH/National Heart Lung Blood Institute Site visit team |
| 1983 |
Reviewed grant proposal for Swiss National Science Foundation, January |
| 1983-Present |
Reviewed manuscripts for JAMA (1983), Annals of Internal Medicine (1983-present), Math Biosciences (1984); Proc IEEE (1986,1988). Meth Inform Med (1988-present); Computers and Biomedical Research (1989- present); New England Journal of Medicine (1992, 1993, 1994, 1997). |
| 1981-Present |
Member of numerous (more than 10) NIH/National Library of Medicine site visit and grant review teams |
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