Английская Википедия:Charles Safran

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Шаблон:Infobox person Charles Safran (born February 3, 1951) is an American-born physician, biomedical informatician, and professor, who is known for his work regarding the use of health information technology (HIT) to improve the delivery and quality of healthcare, in particular clinical information systems.

Early life and education

Charles Safran was born on February 3, 1951, in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and logic at Tufts University in 1974. He received an M.D. from Tufts University in 1980. His postdoctoral training included an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center from 1980 to 1983.

Career

His professional roles included early positions as a programmer and Sponsored Research Staff at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (1973-1976). He has served in various capacities at the Harvard Medical School beginning as an instructor in medicine (1983-1987). Since 2015 he has been a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School

He has helped to pioneer and deploy large institutional integrated clinical computing systems, ambulatory electronic health records and clinical decision support systems to help clinicians treat patients.

He has worked at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as a physician and former chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics. He has influenced medical informatics education and research, directed research programs and led clinical computing fellowships. He has also played a crucial role in developing biomedical informatics programs at Harvard Medical School and the development of the national board certification for clinical informatics.

Outside academia, from 2007-2010, he was a senior scientist at the National Center for Public Health Informatics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was CEO of Clinical Support Technology (1999-2004) that developed the CST CareLink architecture that integrated: (1) asynchronous communication, (2) prescribed education, (3) knowledge exploration, (4) community collaboration, and (5) data integration. The platform was used for connecting parents to babies in the NICU and for supporting pediatric cancer patients at home. The company's products and technology were acquired Eclipsys by a major health technology public company.

He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications with over 10,000 citations and speaks to national and international audiences. He was the Scientific Program Committee Chair of MedInfo 98, which was the 9th World Congress on Medical Informatics held in Seoul, South Korea, from August 14-21, 1998. In 2003 as VP of IMIA, he organized the HELINA (HELth INformatics in Africa) Conference focused on the use of information and communication technology in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. In 2012, he chaired the European Summit on Trustworthy Reuse of Health Data.

Awards and honors

• AMIA Leadership Award, American Medical Informatics Association, 2001
• AMIA Leadership Award, American Medical Informatics Association, 2006
• AMIA Leadership Award, American Medical Informatics Association, 2015
• AMIA Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, 2013
• Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence, American Medical Informatics Association, 2014

External links

• Division of Clinical Informatics at BIDMC
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center