Department of Biomedical Informatics
26 South 2000 East, Suite 5775 HSEB
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5750
USA

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Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine.
Dissertation topic: “Temporal reasoning in Medicine using Dynamic Bayesian Networks”.
Expected graduation: Fall 2007. Current GPA: 3.65 / 4.00.

Primary: Clinical decision support, temporal reasoning, medical knowledge engineering, natural language generation, medical vocabulary, terminology and ontology standards.
Secondary: Computerized clinical protocols and practice guidelines, high performance computing, patient safety, user interface design, system architecture.

MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, equivalent to a United States MD degree plus a one year rotational internship).
June 2000. Stanley Medical College, Chennai, TN, India.
Licensed as a General Physician in India. TNMC Registration number: 66299

Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
May 2004 – Now
Research Assistant
● HDD Analyst, working on a 3M Health Information Systems project through collaboration between the University of Utah and 3M Health Information Systems.
● Developing a Vocabulary Server that integrates multiple versions of several biomedical vocabularies, using a central concept-based ontology.
● Developing heuristic search algorithms for analyzing vocabularies such as SNOMED, CPT, HCPCS, UMLS and the 3M HDD.
● Developing learning algorithms for automatically mapping different vocabularies. Implementing these algorithms as Java and Web applications for remote access and portability.
● Building and maintaining a version control, bug tracking and documentation system for tools and knowledgebase maintained by the team.

Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Fall (August – December) 2006                
Teaching Assistant – Medical Decision Making
● 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.
● Gave invited lecture on ‘Temporal Reasoning in Medicine’ involving Hidden Markov Models, Dynamic Bayesian Networks and other techniques.
● Helped the students with their course project to build and implement a decision support system.

Information Technology Services, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
Jan 2002 – Aug 2004
Research Assistant.
● Developed a patient tracking system for Cardio Thoracic Surgery, which was integrated with eChart, a home-grown web-based Electronic Medical Record system.
● Developed a surveillance system for the Epidemiology Department.
● Evaluated methods to automatically map domestic vocabularies to UMLS.

Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO.
May – Aug 2002
Graduate Technical Intern – Product Development.
● 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
● Performed information modeling, and created XML schemas for a prototype Guideline Representation Language
● 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 6010.
● Taught and assisted the first-year Medical Students with cadaver dissection in the Gross Anatomy lab. Instructor: Dr. Kurt Albertine, PhD.

Government Stanley Hospital, Chennai, TN, India
June 1999 to May 2000
House Officer (Resident Intern)
● Rotated through Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Trauma, Emergency, Public Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology in this 2200-bed hospital

Inst. for Research and Rehabilitation of Hand; Dept. of Surgical Gastroenterology, Stanley Medical College, Chennai, TN, India.
1999 - 2001
Consultant
● 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, India.
Sep – Oct 1999
Pediatric Malignancies - Content Developer
● Developed the content for Pediatric Malignancies chapter of the Pediatrics CDROM.

C M Hospital, Namakkal, TN, India.
May 1994 – Jun 1996
Patient Information System Designer and Programmer.
● Developed a patient record system in Foxbase+ on MS-DOS for this 40-bedded hospital.

● Nachimuthu SK. Best Practices for distribution of Controlled Medical Terminologies. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2007. Accepted for publication.

● Nachimuthu SK, Lau LM. Practical Issues in Using SNOMED CT as a Reference Terminology. Proceedings of Medinfo 2007, The 12th International Health (Medical) Informatics Congress.

● Nachimuthu SK, RD Woolstenhulme. Generalizability of Hybrid Search Algorithms to Map Multiple Biomedical Vocabulary Domains. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2006.

● Nachimuthu SK, Lau LM. Applying Hybrid Algorithms for Text Matching to Automated Biomedical Vocabulary Mapping. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2005.

● Nachimuthu SK, Smith E, Jones TM, Teichrow JS, Biondich B, Collins C, Ross W. Open Source Tools and Applications in Medical Informatics. AMIA 2007 Annual Symposium, Chicago, USA. Accepted for presentation.
This workshop consists of a series of presentations about several tools and technologies used in biomedical informatics by several authors. Senthil Nachimuthu is the organizer of this workshop, and a presenter about machine learning and temporal reasoning tools developed as part of his PhD research and released under open source.

● Reviewer, MedInfo 2007, The 12th International Health (Medical) Informatics Congress, Brisbane, Australia.
● Invited reviewer, AMIA 2007 Annual Symposium, Chicago, USA.
● Reviewer, Fifth Annual Public Health Information Network Conference 2007, Atlanta, USA.

July 2003: Represented the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics in the International Master Class, International Partnership in Health Informatics Education (IPHIE), an academic collaboration between 6 universities in the US and Europe. 

December 1997: Placed First in Forensic Medicine and Toxicology Practical Exams, out of 168 students.

June 2000: Placed in the top 10% of the graduating class in Medical School. Passed with First Class in 6 subjects.

Operating systems:  Linux system administration, Windows, Mac OS
Programming: C, Java, XML, Python, Matlab, Visual Basic
Design / development: Requirements.analysis, UML, UI design, Eclipse RCP, Visual Studio
Web development: HTML, CSS, ColdFusion, PHP, JSP/Servlets, Javascript
Database:  MySQL, Oracle, MS-Access

The Stanley Medical College Network. http://www.stanmed.net
2000 - Now
Website Administrator and Designer
● Maintaining the unofficial portal for the Student, Staff, Faculty and Alumni Community. Customized a PHP based content management system, which uses XML and MySQL.

UNICEF / Stanley Medical College, Chennai, TN, India.
1999 Dec
Immunization Program Evaluator
● Member of the UNICEF monitoring team that evaluated the Intensive Pulse Polio Immunization Program of the Ministry of Health, Government of India.

Utah Entrepreneurial Challenge, 2003, University of Utah School of Business.
● Finalist, placed in the top-ten out of 120 teams in this statewide event. The business plan, ‘Biosyndicates’, dealt with automation of clinical trials and clinical research protocols.

Utah Entrepreneurial Challenge, 2002, University of Utah School of Business.
● Finalist, placed fourth out of 40 teams statewide. The Business plan, ‘Biosyn’, proposed a standard for genomic and proteomic data, and interlingua between different data sources.

Pregnancy Induced Hypertension Symposium, Stanley Medical College, 1998
● Organized and conducted a medical school level symposium on “Pregnancy Induced Hypertension (PIH)” and presented a paper titled “Etiology of PIH.”

Member of SNOMED, HIMSS and AMIA. Voting member of HL7.

Member of the National Cadet Corps, obtained B level certificate, 1994 to 1998

● Won several district and state level science exhibitions and quiz contests.
● Was the quizmaster, programmer, video and audio editor of the Intercollegiate quiz in medical school.
● Multimedia CDROM design and production, graphic design, desktop publishing, and composing and page layout and color separation for offset printing.

Available on request.

Last updated: September 21, 2007.