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Department of Biomedical
Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
May
2004 - Now Graduate
Assistant
n An
externally funded research project supported by 3M Health Information Systems.
n Developing
a Vocabulary Server that integrates multiple versions of several biomedical
vocabularies, using a central concept-based ontology and interoperable with
LexGrid and caBIG.
n Developing
heuristic search algorithms for analyzing vocabularies such as SNOMED CT, LOINC,
NCI Thesaurus, ICD-9-CM, CPT, HCPCS, RxNORM, UMLS, 3M HDD, etc.
n Developing
learning algorithms for automatically mapping different vocabularies. Implementing
these algorithms as Java and Web applications for remote access and
portability.
n Building
and maintaining a semantic web based collaborative ontology/terminology
authoring system. Designing and implementing the workflow for distributed
authoring.
n Supervising
development and testing of HL7 CTS services and the vocabulary server.
n Active
role in designing the next generation interface engines, data warehouses and
toolkits for data mining and analysis.
Department
of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Fall
(August - December) 2006
Teaching Assistant - Medical Decision Making
n Taught
Graduate (Masters and Ph.D.) students in the Departments of Biomedical
Informatics and Nursing Informatics in the Medical Decision Making course
involving decision theory, decision trees, probabilistic and Bayesian
networks, neural networks and other machine learning techniques.
n Gave
invited lecture on ‘Temporal Reasoning in Medicine' involving Hidden Markov
Models, Dynamic Bayesian Networks and other techniques Technology.
Information
Technology Services, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake
City, UT.
Jan
2002 - Aug 2004 Graduate Assistant.
n Developed
a patient tracking system for Cardio Thoracic Surgery, which was integrated
with eChart, a home-grown web-based Electronic Medical Record system.
n Developed
a bacteremia surveillance system (rule-based clinical decision support system)
for the University of Utah Epidemiology Department by analyzing HL7 data
streams.
n Evaluated
methods to automatically map domestic vocabularies to UMLS.
Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO.
May
- Aug 2002 Graduate
Technical Intern - Product Development.
n Developed
a research prototype for a Guideline Representation Language, Guideline
Instance and a Guideline Execution Engine for web based, wizard-style
implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines
n Performed
information modeling, and created XML schemas for a prototype Guideline
Representation Language
n Developed
a Guideline Execution engine in PHP utilizing XML parsers. Developed a prototype front-end for
Wizard-style guideline implementation
University
of Utah School
of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.
Sep
- Dec 2001 Teaching
Assistant - Human Anatomy.
n Taught
gross anatomy to the first-year medical students through cadaver dissection
in the Gross Anatomy lab.
n Taught
gross anatomy with special relevance to clinical correlates.
n Evaluated
the performance of the students in written and oral exams.
Government Stanley Hospital,
Chennai, TN, India
June
1999 to May 2000 House Officer (Rotational
Internship)
n Rotated
through Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Trauma,
Emergency, Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology and other departments in
this 2200-bed tertiary care teaching hospital.
n Instructed
and supervised third and final year medical students and nursing students during
their clinical rotations.
Inst. for Research and Rehabilitation of Hand;
Dept. of Surgical Gastroenterology, Stanley
Medical College,
Chennai, TN, India.
1999
- 2001 Consultant
n Provided
consultation to the two departments to develop a patient information system for
clinical and imaging data for hand reconstructive and gastrointestinal
surgeries.
Association for Computer
Aided Surgery, Chennai, TN, India.
Sep
- Oct 1999 Pediatric
Malignancies - Content Developer
n Authored
the content for Pediatric Malignancies chapter of the Pediatrics volume of an
electronic learning system for medical students and clinicians, which was
published on a CDROM.
C M Hospital, Namakkal, TN,
India.
May
1994 - Jun 1996 Patient
Information System Designer and Programmer.
n Developed
a patient record system in Foxbase+ on MS-DOS for this 40-bed hospital.
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