John D. Halamka

Background

Halamka, John D. was born in May 1962 in Des Moines.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Medical Microbiology (with distinction), Stanford University, 1984. Bachelor in Public Policy (with distinction), Stanford University, 1984. Student in Bioengineering, University California Berkeley, 1986—1989.

Doctor of Medicine, University California, San Francisco, 1993. Master of Science in Medical Informatics, Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Health Science and Technology, 1997.

Career

Intern, emergency medicine Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles, 1993—1994, resident, emergency medicine, 1994—1996. Douglas P. Porter Informatics Fellow, Center for Clinical Computing Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1996—1997. Chief Executive Officer Ibis Research Labs, California, 1981—1992.

Associate in medicine, attending physician, division Emergency Medical Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, since 1996, chief information officer. Executive director Center for Quality and Value CareGroup Health Systems, 1997—1999, chief information officer, since 1998. Co-founder & chairman New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network, since 1999.

Instructor in Medical Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1996—1999, assistant professor of Medical, since 2000, associate dean for educational technical, since 2000, chief information officer, Center for. Clinical Computing, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Harvard Clinical Research Institute, since 2001. Member, research committee Stanford University, 1980—1984.

Member Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Working Group on the Electronic Emergency Department Record, 1996. Advisor, Tri-State Technology Advisory Group on Clinical Data Security and Confidentiality Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1997, advisor, Five State Project on Healthcare Security, 2000. Co-chair Medical Intranet Forum, 1998—2000.

Consultant The National Library Medicine Informatics Training Grant Study Section, 2001. Member, clinical data working group Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, 1997, member, Chief Information Officer Forum, since 1998. Member Massachusetts Administrative Task Force, 2000.

Member, caregroup emergency medicine computing group Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 1996—1997, co-chair, emergency department quality improvement task force, 1997—1998. Co-chair, physician computer committee Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, 1993—1996, member, adult emergency department council, 1993—1994. Adjunct faculty Center for Clinical Computing, Harvard Medical School.

Technical consultant for several start-up companies. Board director Epocrates, San Mateo, California, since 2005.

Achievements

• John D. Halamka has been listed as a noteworthy technology executive, emergency physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of American Medical Informatics Association, Society for Academy Emergency Medical, American College of Emergency Physicians.