NAME

POSITION TITLE

Soumitra Sengupta

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University

EDUCATION

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India
State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY

BE
MS, PhD

1980
1984, 1987

Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Computer Science

Research and Professional Experience

1980–1982     Assistant Systems Analyst & Programmer, Tata Consultancy Services, Bombay, India

1987–1994     Assistant Research Scientist, Dept. of Computer Science and Ctr for Medical Informatics,     Columbia University, NY

1994-1995    Clinical Information Architect, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;

                     Associate Research Professor, Dept. of Computer Medicine, George Washington University, Washington DC

1996-2003   Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, NY

2003-          Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, NY

1998-         Information Security Officer, Columbia University Biomedical and Health Information Services, Columbia University Medical Center, NY

1998-         Information Security Officer, Information Services, NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare, NY

Awards/Honors:

1980                              Silver Medal, BITS, Pilani, India

Memberships:

1984-1994                     Association for Computing Machinery

1984-1992                     Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Computer Society)

1989-Present                 American Medical Informatics Association

2001-2003                     CSTB/NRC study committee on Authentication Technologies and their Privacy Implications, National Academy of Sciences.

Tutorials:

Sengupta S, McCormack M. On Networking Medical Centers. The Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; Washington DC, 1991.

Sengupta S, McCormack M. On Networking Medical Centers. The Sixteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; Baltimore, 1992.

Sideli RV, Sengupta S. Distributed Computing in Health Care. The Sixteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; Baltimore, 1992.

Henkind SJ, Sengupta S. Security of Computerized Patient Record Systems. AMIA Spring Congress; St. Louis, 1993.

Sideli RV, Sengupta S. Distributed Computing in Health Care. The Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; Washington DC, 1993.

Sengupta S.  Information Security in Health Care: Processes and Technology. AMIA Annual Fall Symposium. Washington DC. 2005.

Panels:

Chair. Local Area Networks in support of Clinical Practice, Research and Education. The Twelfth Annual Symposium on Computer   Applications in Medical Care; Washington DC. 1988.

Chair. World-Wide Web-Based Systems for Electronic Medical Records. AMIA Annual Fall Symposium; Washington DC. 1996.

Member. Telemedicine Support for Patients. AMIA Spring Congress, San Jose, CA. May 1997.

Reports:

IDs – Not that easy: Questions about Nationwide Identity Systems. Kent ST, Millett LI, eds. Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications. CSTB, National Research Council. National Academy Press. 2002

Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy. Kent ST, Millett LI, eds. Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications. CSTB, National Research Council. National Academy Press. 2003

Publications:

Agrawal D, Bernstein AJ, Gupta P, Sengupta S. Distributed Multi-version Optimistic Concurrency Control for Relational Databases. Proceedings of the Thirty-First IEEE Computer Society International Conference (COMPCON 86). San Francisco, California. 1986.

Agrawal D, Bernstein AJ, Gupta P, Sengupta S. Distributed Optimistic Concurrency Control with Reduced Rollback. Journal of Distributed Computing. Springer-Verlag. 1987;2(1).

Conklin GS, Sengupta S. Installation of a Token Ring Local Area Network in a Large Teaching Urban Hospital. ECHO Fall 88. IBM Health Care Users Group Meeting.  Innisbrook, Florida. 1988.

Conklin GS, Clayton PD, Sengupta S, et al. The Token Ring Local Area Network: Implementation Considerations. Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Washington, DC. 1988.

Agrawal D, Sengupta S. Modular Synchronization in Multiversion Databases: Version Control and Concurrency Control.  Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. Portland, Oregon. 1989.

Sengupta S. Heterogeneity in Health Care Computing Environments. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Washington, DC. 1989.

Dupuy A, Schwartz J, Sengupta S, Yemini Y.  An Object-Oriented Model for Network Management. In: Gupta R, Horowitz E, Eds. Object-Oriented Databases and Applications. Prentice-Hall. 1990.

Dupuy A, Schwartz J, Sengupta S, Wolfson O, Yemini Y.  The NETMATE Model for Network Management. Proceedings of the IEEE Network Operations and Management Systems. San Diego, California. 1990.

Sengupta S, Bernstein AJ. Concurrency Control Optimizations in a Prolog Database. Lindstrom G, Ed. International Journal of Parallel Programming. Plenum. 1990.

Sengupta S, Clayton PD, Anderson R, McCormack M. Computer Networking Strategy in Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Proceedings of the IMIA Conference on Telematics in Medicine. Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 1990.

Sanghi S, Chandna A, Wetzel G, Sengupta S. How well do SNMP and CMOT meet IP router management needs? Proceedings of the Second IFIP Symposium on Integrated Network Management. Washington, DC. April 1991.

Dupuy A, Sengupta S, Wolfson O, Yemini Y. Design of the NETMATE Network Managament System.  Proceedings of the Second IFIP Symposium on Integrated Network Management. Washington, DC. April 1991.

Dupuy A, Sengupta S, Wolfson O, Yemini Y. NETMATE: A Network Managament Environment. IEEE Network Journal. IEEE Computer Society Press. March 1991.

Cimino JJ, Sengupta S: IAIMS and UMLS at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Medical Decision Making, 1991; 11(suppl):S89-93

Wolfson O, Sengupta S, Yemini Y. Managing communication networks by monitoring databases. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. September 1991;17(9).

Sengupta S, Charney ML. A Graphical Workstation Design for Clinical Information. Proceedings of the Thirteenth IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. October 1991.

Hendrickson G, Anderson RK, Clayton PD, Cimino J, Hripcsak G, Johnson SB, McCormack M, Sengupta S, Shea S, Sideli R, Roderer N. The integrated academic information system at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. MD Computing 1992;9(1):35-42.

Johnson SB, Clayton PD, Fink DJ, Sengupta S, Shea S, Bourne P, Sideli RV, Aguirre A, Cimino JJ, Hripcsak G, McCormack M, Hill C: Achievements in Phase III of an Integrated Academic Information Management System. In Lun KC, Degoulet P, Piemme TE, Rienhoff, eds.: MEDINFO 92, Elsevier, North-Holland Press, Amsterdam; September, 1992: 117-123.

Clayton PD, Sideli RV, Sengupta S. Open Architecture and Integrated Information at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: The Role of Networks, Workstations and Databases. MD Computing. September/October 1992.

Shea S, Sengupta S, Crosswell A, Clayton PD. Network Information Security in a Phase III Integrated Academic Information Management System (IAIMS). Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Baltimore MD. 1992.

Agrawal D, Sengupta S. Modular Synchronization in Distributed Multiversion Databases: Version Control and Concurrency Control. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 5(1): 126-137. 1993.

Sideli RV, Johnson SB, Hripcsak G, Sengupta S, Cimino JJ, Allen B, Clayton PD. Accessing the electronic medical record using HL7 (abstract). In: Kahn MG, ed.: Proceedings of the 1993 AMIA Spring Congress; 1993 May 9-12; St. Louis. 49.

Sengupta S, Clayton PD, Molholt P, Sideli RV, Cimino JJ, Hripcsak G, Johnson S, Allen B,

McCormack M, Hill C.  IAIMS and sharing.  International Journal of Biomedical Computing; 1994; 34:339-348.

Sengupta S, Sideli RV, Clayton PD. An open information gateway. Proceedings of the AMIA Spring Congress; 1994; San Francisco.

Sengupta S. Computer Networks in Health Care. In Bronzino JD, ed.: The Biomedical Engineering Handbook. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton; 1995:2642-9.

Sengupta S, Al-Daig H, Sittig DF. The role of a clinical information architect in building a hospital information system. Symposium on Hospital Information Systems (HIS); March 1995;  Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia.

Johnson SB, Forman BH, Cimino JJ, Hripcsak G, Sengupta S, Sideli RV, Clayton PD. A technological perspective on the computer-based patient record. In Steen EB, ed.: Proceedings of the First Annual Nicholas E Davies CPR Recognition Symposium, Washington DC; April, Computer-based Patient Record Institute, Inc., 1995:37-52.

Forman BH, Cimino JJ, Johnson JB, Sengupta S, Sideli RV, Allen B, Clayton PD. Applying a controlled terminology to a distributed, production clinical information system. In Gardner RM, ed.: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; New Orleans, LA; October-November, Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia, 1995: 421-5.

Sittig DF, Sengupta S, Al-Daig H, Payne T, Pincetl P. The Role of the Information Architect at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre. In Gardner RM, ed.: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; New Orleans, LA; October-November, Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia, 1995: 756-60.

Sengupta S, Sittig DF, Al-Daig H. Developing an Integrated Clinical Information Management System for King Faisal Specialist Hospital (abstract). Computers in Information Technology in the Health Field; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 1995.

Sengupta S, Sittig DF, Al-Daig H, Motan A. Using the World Wide Web in the Health Field (abstract). Computers in Information Technology in the Health Field; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 1995.

Sengupta S, Sittig DF, Al-Daig H, Motan A. Towards building Electronic Medical Records (abstract). Computers in Information Technology in the Health Field; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 1995.

Sengupta S, Clayton PD. Clinical Workstations: An architectural perspective. In van Bemmel, JH and McCray, AT, ed.: Yearbook of Medical Informatics - Integration of Information for Patient Care, IMIA. Schattauer. 1996: 59-64.

Sengupta S, Gallagher RJ, Hripcsak G, Wu M, Barrows RB, Clayton PD. Searching for Patterns in an Audit Log of Clinical Information Access (abstract). Proceedings of the AMIA Spring Congress. San Jose, CA. May 1997.

Cimino JJ, Sengupta S, Clayton PD, Patel VL, Kushniruk A, Huang X. Architecture for a Web-based clinical information system that keeps the design open and the access closed. Proc AMIA Symp 1998;:121-5.

Hripcsak G, Cimino JJ, Sengupta S. WebCIS: large scale deployment of a Web-based clinical information system. Proc AMIA Symp 1999;:804-8.

Wei L, Sengupta S. Session management for web-based healthcare applications. Proc AMIA Symp 1999;:999-1003.

Starren, J., Sengupta, S., Hripcsak, G., Ring, G., Klerer, R., and Shea, S. Making Grandma's Data Secure: A Security Architecture for Home Telemedicine. Proc AMIA Symp 2001:657-661

Starren J, Hripcsak G, Sengupta S, Abbruscato CR, Knudson PE, Weinstock RS, Shea S. Columbia University’s informatics for diabetes education and telemedicine (IDEATel) project. Technical Implementation. J Am Med Inform Assoc 9:25-36,2002.

Chen ES, Hripcsak G, Patel VL, Sengupta S, Gallagher RJ, Cimino JJ. Automated identification of shortcuts to patient data for a wireless handheld clinical information system. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003;:809.