EMAIL: harrind@dmi.columbia.edu
Vision Statement 09/17/02
My vision is to develop Technology and Process
in order to improve the Health of all, practice what I preach and teach others
what I have learned. My goals in
support of my vision include maintaining and improving my Radiology interpretive
skills. Establishing a top rated Academic Radiology Department. Performing high
quality productive research in a combined domain of Radiology and Medical
Informatics and to acquire the abilities of a venture capitalists in order to
better support technology development.
Biographical Statement
My
Radiology career began at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis VA
Hospital and included trained with Kurt Amplatz in Cardiovascular Radiology. I worked
for twenty years as a Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiologists beginning
at the Minneapolis VA, and continuing on at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the
Brigham and Woman’s Hospital. I was privileged to practice during the inception
of Interventional Radiology and took an active part in the development of the
field. My research interests span cardiac and vascular disease in both adults
and children and included the anatomical as well as the physiological
manifestations of these diseases.
In the late 80’s I shifted course into more administrative
endeavors first as the section head of CV and Interventional Radiology at the
Brigham and as Co-Director (with the Director of the Cardiac Cath. Lab) of the
Brigham Cath Labs. In 1991, I assumed the position of Chairman of Radiology at
Stonybrook. During this latter interval my research productivity decreased but
not my interest. At about the time of assuming the Chairman’s position I was
introduced to the Informatics concept, but was unable to peruse the subject
until 1997 when I undertook a sabbatical at Columbia in Medical Informatics.
I completed a Research Masters at Columbia in 2000. I have studied
and written on a variety of Informatics subjects including vocabulary
development for which a paper with David Campbell was presented as a poster at
the AMIA 2000 meeting. My Master thesis was titled “Cost/benefit Evaluation of a PACS at Stonybrook”. I am
presently working on a project through the RSNA with Carol Friedman involving
radiology vocabulary development. My other major project is the Radiology
Process Mapping Project.
Teaching
I facilitated the Student Seminar course in both the Fall and Spring semesters. I am the involved with teaching of Radiology Residents at Stonybrook with emphasis on Thoracic and ER Radiology.
Research
In terms of other research interests, I continue working on issues of Radiology reporting particularly with regard to vocabulary, structured reporting and ways of expressing levels of certainty in reports. I continue a strong interest in the development of PACS and digital imaging and will work in this area both at Columbia and Stonybrook.
Clinical
My Clinical responsibilities reside at Stonybrook and involve interpretation of Emergency Department Radiological studies and how to improve the efficacy of the radiological efforts.
Edited 09/17/02