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I am a fourth year PhD student in Columbia University's Department of Biomedical Inforamtics. Prior to entering the program at Columbia, I spent two years training as a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Health Sciences Informatics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; I enjoyed informatics so much that I decided to get a PhD.
The desire to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system drives my passion for informatics. While I believe that computers are a wonderful tool for achieving these goals, informatics is much more than computing. I unashamedly consider myself a clinical informatician. My primary research to-date has focused on creating synergies in the healthcare information flow by tightly integrating clinical documentation with computerized provider order entry via a physician-coded problem list. I hope to continue to show how the problem list, when properly implemented in an integrated electronic health record (EHR), can and should be the critical thread that ties together a patient's clinical, administrative, and financial information over an entire lifetime. A key early step in this endeavor is to design an EHR paradigm that treats the problem list as central to clinical care but also maximally allows clinician latitude in and offers the greatest benefits to docuemntation, order entry, and administrative tasks.
I am an inaugural member of the JAMIA Student Editorial Board and the second editor of Aspects of the Computer-based Patient Record, second edition, which is scheduled for publication by Springer-Verlag in late 2005.