Curriculum Vitae - Amnon Shabo (Shvo)

Last Update: December 2013

Born in Jerusalem, Israel, August 23, 1957. Married + 2

4 Wizo St., Haifa 344000. Tel/Fax: 04-8253234

e-mail: shabo@il.ibm.com

SYNOPSIS

Amnon Shabo (Shvo), PhD, works at IBM Research Lab in Haifa as a researcher

specializing in health informatics and is one of the chairs the IBM Research Medical

Informatics Community. He also heads the Healthcare & Life Sciences Standards

Program in IBM and holds leading positions in HL7 (a major standards developing

organization dedicated to health information): o Co-editor, CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) Standard

o Co-editor, CCD (Continuity of Care Document) Standard o Co-chair & Facilitator, HL7 Clinical Genomics Work Group o Primary editor (modeling), HL7 Pedigree (Family History) Standard o Primary Editor, CDA GTR (Genetic Testing Report) Implementation Guide

Amnon had been leading the contribution of the Haifa Healthcare & Life Sciences

group to the Hypergenes project (http://www.hypergenes.eu/) funded by the European

Union to explore the genetic background of essential hypertension – a study

conducted by a consortium of about twenty European partners.

Amnon also specializes in longitudinal and cross-institutional Electronic Health

Records (EHR). A pioneer of the Independent Health Record Banks (IHRBs) vision,

Amnon has promoted this idea for the past decade in various venues including the US

Congress where he gave talk at a special briefing to Congressional Policy Stuff (2007)

on the new legislation introduced on IHRB.

ACADEMIC DEGREES

The following degrees earned from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

B.Sc. in Biology (1981);

B.Sc. in Mathematics (1982);

Teaching Certificate in High School Mathematics (1982);

B.Sc. in Computer Science (1984);

M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Science Education, specializing in learning sciences &

technologies in the fields of biology and medicine (1994), in particular in case-

based reasoning.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1986-2003: Lecturer with the Programming Instruction Unit at the Hebrew

University of Jerusalem. Courses: Java, Pascal, Fortran.

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1999-2000: Researcher at the Cognitive Design Media Lab of the Faculty of

Architecture and Town Planning of the Technion.

1997-1998: Lecturer with the Science Education Department at the Technion.

1995-1997: Post-Doctorate Fellow with the Graphics, Visualization and

Usability (GVU) Center and the EduTech Institute of the College of

Computing at Georgia Tech. Research & Development focus areas:

Case-Based Reasoning, Visualizations, Collaborative Writing on the

WWW, Object-Oriented Design through JAVA (GVU was ranked in

1996 as the best US graduate program by US News and World Report).

AWARDS:

IBM 2011 Research Accomplishment on the contribution to the development

of the MDHT (Model-Driven Health Tool), led by IBM Almaden Research

Center

IBM 2009 Research Accomplishment on the development of New Generation

of Healthcare and Life Sciences Information Standards (lead)

The 2007 HL7 Volunteer of the Year.

Best paper award in the 2007 Medical Informatics Yearbook of the

International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).

The IBM Research accomplishment “Outstanding Innovation Award” in

appreciation for innovating in the field of “Clinical Genomics” was awarded in

the year of 2004

The M.Sc. dissertation (based on HyperDiagram) was awarded in 1989 as the

best work in Computer Science, by the Israeli Association for Information

Processing (“ILA”)

PRESENTATIONS

Shabo, A. (2013). How the Electronic Health Record Can Facilitate Translational

and Integrative Medicine. Clinical Genomics & Informatics Europe. December 6,

2013, Lisbon.

Shabo, A. (2013). Clinical genomics information exchange: Semantic challenges.

Clinical Genomics Information Exchange Symposium: Taking Stock of Genomic

Integration Efforts. CBMI, Harvard Medical School, September 27, 2013.

Available online at:

http://smartgenomics.wikispaces.com/Genomics+Information+Exchange

Shabo, A. (2013). Towards a Translational Health Information Language.

Presented at the EPMA World Congress - 20 September 2013, Brussels.

Shabo, A., Ball, M., Haux, R., Shortliffe, EH., Yasnoffe, W., Protti, D., Plischke,

M. (2013). Defragmenting Individual’s Health Data: It’s Time for Health Record

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Banking. Moderating and speaking at a Panel Discussion of MedInfo 2013

Conference, Copenhagen, August 23, 2013.

Nakaya, J., de Faria Leao, B, Shabo, A., et al. (2013). Workshop on

Standardization I. Speaker of a Workshop of MedInfo 2013 Conference,

Copenhagen, August 23, 2013.

Shabo, A. (2013). The Patient-Centric Translational EHR and the Independent

Health Record Banks. Translational and Integrative Bioinformatics Training

organized by INBIOMEDvision, 23 April 2013, Barcelona Supercomputing

Center, Barcelona.

Shabo, A., Conti, C. Waks, Z. Clinical Decision Support – From Research to

Practice. Workshop at EFMI STC on Data and Knowledge for Clinical Decision

Support, April 18, 2013, Prague. (workshop organizer and speaker on relevant

standards for clinical decision support)

Shabo, A. (2012). Why Don't We have a Longitudinal & Cross-Institutional

Patient Health Record? Innovations in Cardiovascular Interventions. December 2-

4, 2012, Tel Aviv.

Shortliffe EH, Bellazzi R, Degoulet P, Shabo, A and Patel VL. (2012). Clinical

Bioinformatics: new challenges for human-centered decision-support systems.

Panel at MIE (Medical Informatics Europe) 2012 - August 28, 2012, Pisa.

Timm J, Shabo, A. and Farkash A. (2012). Model-Driven Healthcare Standards

Development: Lowering the Bar for Implementers. Workshop at MIE (Medical

Informatics Europe) 2012 - August 28, 2012, Pisa.

Shabo, A. (2012). New IT paradigms supporting massive biomedical data

management. Statement presented at the Barcelona Debate 2012 on Beyond Omics

Revolutions: Integrative Knowledge Management for Empowered Healthcare and

Research. July 3-5, Barcelona.

Shabo, A. (2012). Standards for clinical-omics integration: the semantic challenge.

Statement presented at the Barcelona Debate 2012 on Beyond Omics Revolutions:

Integrative Knowledge Management for Empowered Healthcare and Research. July

3-5, Barcelona.

Shabo, A. (2012). Discussant at the Public Health Genomics ii triple event to

finalize the ESF Forward Look Report on Personalised Medicine for the European

Citizen – towards more precise medicine for the diagnosis, treatment and

prevention of disease (iPM). March 17-20, Rome.

Shabo, A. (2011). The Interoperability Journey. Presented at the NETTAB

Workshop on Clinical Bioinformatics. 13 October 2011, Pavia, Italy

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Shabo, A. (2011). Meaningful Use of Patient-centric Health Records for

Personalized Medicine. Presented at the EPMA World Congress - 18 September

2011, Bonn.

Shabo, A., Haux, R., Muller, H. Kalra, D. (2011). Translational Medicine: The

Need for Integrative Informatics. Panel discussion at MIE (Medical Informatics

Europe) 2011 - August 29, 2011, Oslo.

Shabo, A. (2011). CDA IG for Genetic Testing Reports – Towards a Clinical

Genomic Statement. Presented at IHIC 2011 (12th

International HL7

Interoperability Conference, see http://www.ihic2011.org/) in Orlando, May 13-14,

2011.

Koonan, K. and Shabo, A. (2010). Privacy and Confidentiality Annotation Model

for Research and other Secondary Uses of Clinical Information. The 2010 AMIA

Summit on Clinical Research Informatics (CRI), San Francisco, March 12-13,

2010.

Shabo, A. (2009). Towards Standards-based Semantic Warehousing. Biobanking

Workshop organized by IBM to a Belgium consortium establishing a biobank.

Brussels. October 23, 2009.

Shabo, A. (2009). Family Health History On the Fly. Invited talk by the HHS

Personalized Healthcare initiative (Dr. Greg Downing) for a meeting on the family

history standard and analysis. HHS Humphrey Building, Washington DC. October

21, 2009.

Shabo, A. (2009). From CDA to Electronic Forms: A Roadmap. Invited talk at the

US Military Health System site in Falls Church, Virginia. October 21, 2009.

Shabo, A. (2009). A Common IT Infrastructure Serving Both Research and

Healthcare. Watson Research Seminar. October 16, 2009.

Shabo, A. (2009). A Standards-based IT Infrastructure Serving Pharmacogenomics.

Personalized Healthcare Meeting of Medco Health Solutions research and IT stuff,

invited by Dr. Felix Frueh, VP Personalized Healthcare, Medco. October 15, 2009.

Shabo, A. (2009). Independent Health Record Banks & Enabling Standards. IBM

North East Regional Academy Affiliates meeting. Poughkeepsie, October 14, 2009.

Shabo, A. (2009). A Common IT Infrastructure Serving Both Research and

Healthcare. Grand Rounds invited talk. John Hopkins University - School of

Medicine, Division of Health Sciences Informatics. October 2, 2009.

Shabo, A. (2009). Updates on the Family History Standard Implementations.

Invited by Dr. Kevin Hughes for a meeting of the family history project team

members and Partners Healthcare CIRD. Massachusetts General Hospital. October

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8, 2009.

Shabo, A. (2009). Standards used in EC FP7 Hypergenes. HL7 Clinical Genomics

Work Group Meeting. Atlanta, September 24, 2009.

Shabo, A. (2009). Family History – Convergence of EHR, PHR and Genomics to

Facilitate Clinical Decision Support. ILAMI Annual Conference. Tel Aviv, May

19, 2009.

Shabo, A. (2009). The Independent Health Record Banks Model Getting Traction.

ILAMI Symposium on Personal Health Records. SAP - Raanana, April 22, 2009.

Shabo, A., Hughes K., Feero G. (2009). HL7 Clinical Genomics

Family History (Pedigree) - From PHR to CDS through EHR. Plenary session at

the HL7 Work Group Meeting in Orlando, January 2009.

Shabo, A. (2008). From Research to Personalized Healthcare: Clinical Genomic

Standards Fusion for the Biomedical Information Infrastructure of the EC-FP7

Hypergenes Project. ICT BIO 2008. October 23-24, Brussels, Belgium.

Shabo, A. (2008). Enabling Personalized Healthcare through the Independent

Health Record. A seminar at the Technical University of Braunschweig Computer

Sciences Department. October 20, 2008.

Shabo, A. (2007). Standards-based Clinical Genomics Databases. Era-Rare

workshop on management of biological databases and biobank. Istanbul,

November 20, 2007.

Shabo, A. (2007). Independent Health Record Banks. Special briefing to

Congressional Policy Staff in the US Congress organized by Congressman Dennis

Moore. September 19, 2007, Washington DC.

Shabo, A. (2007). Standards-Based Clinical Genomics Decision Support. The US

HHS (Ministry of Health) Personalized Healthcare Workgroup. September 17,

2007, Washington DC. Available online at:

http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/healthcare/phc_archive.html#08.

Smith, C., Sands D.Z., Shabo, A. (2007). Personal Health Records: Serving More

Than One Master. Tutorial Workshop Proposal, MedInfo 2007. Brisbane,

Australia, August 2007.

Shabo, A. (2007). IHE Workshop given to “Arge ELGA” – the National Task

Force for EHR in Austria. Organized by IBM Austria. July 23, 2007, Vienna.

Shabo, A. (2007). Independent Health Record Banks – Integrating Clinical and

Genomic Data into Patient-Centric Longitudinal and Cross-Institutional Health

Records. ISBM/ECCB 2007 special session “Private fears in public places? Ethical

and regulatory concerns regarding human genomic databases”. Vienna, July 2007.

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http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/program/specialsessions/details/#session1

Shabo, A. (2007). Standards Fusion for the Patient-centric EHR. Keynote speech at

the annual HL7 Hellas meeting. Athens, May 14, 2007.

http://www.hl7.org.gr/assets/conferences/programme.pdf

Shabo, A. (2007). CDA Workshop. eHealth Benchmarking 2007. Hall in Tirol,

Austria, May 10, 2007. http://www.ehealth-

benchmarking.org/2007/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4

Greenshpan, O., Shabo, A., Carmeli, B., Safran, M., Lancet, D. (2007). Exploring

the Underlying Clinical-Genomic Profile of a Patient via Incorporating Genecards

into CGL7. Poster presented at the Israel Innovation Summit. Haifa, March 2007.

Shabo, A., Dotan, D., Greenshpan, O. (2007). The Seventh Layer of Clinical

Genomics – an Infrastructure for Using Genomic Data in Healthcare. Poster at the

European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2006) conference. Eilat,

January 2007.

Shabo, A., Hughes, K., Sharko, J. and Drohan, B. (2007). HL7 V3 Family History

Information Exchange - A Test Case for Personalized Healthcare. HL7 Working

Group Meeting - Thursday Plenary. San Diego, California, January 2007.

Shabo, A., Drohan, B. (2006). HL7 Clinical Genomics Tutorial. HL7 Working

Group Meeting. Boca Raton, Florida, September 2006.

Shabo, A., Hughes, K., Sharko, J. and Drohan, B. (2006). Family History

Information Exchange Using the HL7 V3 Clinical Genomics DSTU. Presented at

IHIC 2006 (International HL7 Interoperability Conference, see

http://ihic.hl7.de/cfp.html) in Cologne, Germany, August 2006.

Shabo A. (2006). One-day CDA Workshops given in China (Shenzhen and

Beijing), organized by the Ministry of Health in China along with the Hospital

Association of China. July 10 and 12, 2006.

Shabo, A, Kaufman J. (2006). IBM Standards-based Solutions for the Continuum

of Healthcare and Life Sciences. Presented at the 5th Asia-Pacific and Cross-Strait

HL7 Conference on Healthcare Information Standards, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2006.

Shabo, A. (2006). HL7 V3 Standards for Public Health and the Clinical-Genomics

Standard for the CDC NHANES Nutrition Project. Information Technology for

Public Health. An international seminar held at the IBM Research Lab in Haifa on

June 21, 2006.

Shabo A. (2006). Integrating genomic data into clinical information systems.

ILAMI 2006. May 2006, Tel Aviv.

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Shabo, A. (2006). Clinical document standards supporting the longitudinal EHR.

eHealth Benchmarking Symposium, Hall in Tirol, Austria. April 26, 2006.

Shabo, A. (2006). Alternative Model to Manage Longitudinal Health Records.

Presented at the Medical Information and the Law International Symposium. Haifa

University, March 2006, Haifa.

Shabo, A., Elkin, P., Kaufman, J., Reddy, U. (2006). HL7 Clinical Genomics

Tutorial. HL7 Working Group Meeting. Phoenix, Arizona, January 2006.

Shabo, A. (2005). Development of international data standards to support the

acquisition, exchange, submission and archiving of clinical-genomic data. An

OECD Workshop – An International Perspective on Pharmacogenetics: the

Intersections between Innovation, Regulation and Health Delivery. October 17-19,

2005, Rome, Italy.

Shabo, A. and Heard, S. (2005). The Sustainability of a lifetime electronic health

record – how and by whom? HIC 2005 – Bridging the Digital Divide: Consumers,

Clinicians & Computers. July 31 – August 2, Melbourne, Australia.

Shabo, A. (2005). HL7 Clinical-Genomics SIG: The Genotype Model. Semantic

Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine. A meeting of the Semantic

Mining Network of Excellence (EC funded project). June 28 – July 4, 2005, Lake

Balaton, Hungary. Hosted by Budapest University of Technology and Economics

– Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics.

Shabo, A. (2005). Encapsulate & Bubble-up: HL7 Clinical genomics

Specifications. Poster presented at the 13th Annual International conference on

Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2005) of the International

Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). 52 enuJ-u2n,u00Jn,teDrteD.

Savel, T., Lin, B., Shabo, A., McQuillan, G.M. (2005). The Future of Transmitting

Human Genomic Data in the Public Health Information Network (PHIN): Using a

Prototype Health Level 7 Shared Genotype Refined Message Information Model

(HL7 R-MIM) and the Extensible Markup Language (XML). 3rd Annual PHIN

(Public Health Information Network) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2005.

Shabo, A. (2005). How the HL7 CDA R2 Standard could be used in the CEN EN

13606 EHR Model. iM0 nu00J.n02 nu2,nu00J,n0e nMIeI.

Shabo, A. (2005). Attack of the Clones: HL7 Clones vs. Genomic Clones. NCRI

Workshop on Functional Genomics, London, January 31 - February 1, 2005.

Shani U, Carmeli B, Kol T, Ram R, Shabo A. The IHE-Bus: a practical tool to

instrument and simulate IHE deployment. In Proceeding of SPIE 5748, Medical

Imaging 2005: PACS and Imaging Informatics, 232 (April 20, 2005);

doi:10.1117/12.596975; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.596975

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Shabo, A. (2004). HL7 and the Genome. HL7 UK Annual Conference, London,

November 2004.

Shabo, A., Schabetsberger, T., Wozak, F. and Vogl, R. (2004). Issues in using

CDA for the Tyrol Document Registry. 2nd International Conference on the CDA.

October 20-22, 2004, Acapulco, Mexico.

Shabo, A. (2004). Lessons Learned in Transforming Various Formats of Clinical

Data to CDA Documents. 2nd International Conference on the CDA. October 20-

22, 2004, Acapulco, Mexico.

Shabo, A. (2004). HL7 Clinical-Genomics SIG: A Shared Genotype Model that

can be Utilized in a Voluntary Pharmacogenomics Data Submission to the FDA.

FDA Headquarters, Washington DC, October 2004.

Shabo, A. (2004). The Rise of the Longitudinal EHR. A CIRD (Clinical

Informatics Research & Development) Seminar. Partners HealthCare, Boston,

August 2004.

Shabo, A. (2004). Clinical-Genomics Standardization in HL7: A Reusable

Genotype Model. Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the University of Cincinnati

Visit to IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, August 2004.

Shabo, A. (2004). From Medical Information Standards to an (Inter) National

Health Information Infrastructure. IBM Workshop on Healthcare Research. IBM

Learning Center, Armonk, New York, August 2004.

Shabo, A. (2004). National Models of EHR Implementations, an invited plenary

talk at the Annual ILA-MI conference on Information System in Healthcare, June

2, 2004, Israel.

Shabo, A. (2004). The HL7 V3 Family of Standards, A Symposium on Medical

Informatics Standards, ILA-MI, May 13, 2004, Israel.

Vogl, R., Schabetsberger, T., Schindelwig, K., Haux, R., Shabo, A. (2004).

Regional Registries of Cross-Institutional Patient EHR as Forerunners of

Independent EHR Banks, 2nd ICICTH (International Conference on Information

Communication Technologies in Health), July 2004, Greece.

Shabo, A., Vogl, R., Schabetsberger, T. (2004). Regional Registries of Cross-

Institutional Patient EHRs as Forerunners of Independent EHR Banks, IBM

Academy of Technology Conference on New Wave of Healthcare, May 19 - 20,

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.

Shabo, A., Israel, S., Smith, A., Walker, D. and Kesten, M. (2004). Standardization

of Clinical-Genomics Data in the Tissue Typing Use Case, IBM Academy of

Technology Conference on New Wave of Healthcare, May 19 - 20, IBM T. J.

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Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.

Shabo, A., Alschuler, L. (2004). Healthcare Connectivity Cutting Edge: The HL7-

IHE Interoperability Demo at HIMSS, IBM Academy of Technology Conference

on New Wave of Healthcare, May 19 - 20, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,

Yorktown Heights, New York.

The HL7 Working Group Meeting in San Antonio, USA, May 2004. Birds-of-a-

Feather Session on National EHR Interoperability and Implementations.

Comparing National/Regional EHR Models to the Model of Independent Health

Record Banks.

The HL7 Working Group Meeting in San Antonio, USA, May 2004. The CDA

Release Two Implementation Guide.

The HL7 Working Group Meeting in San Antonio, USA, May 2004. The New

Version of the Genotype Model in its use in Tissue typing and Pharmacogenomics-

Based Clinical Trials.

IBM Almaden Research Center, CS Talk, January 28, 2004. Standardization of

Clinical-Genomics Data: Healthcare and Bioinformatics Standards Merge in HL7.

The HL7 Working Group Meeting in San Diego, USA, January 2004. Birds-of-a-

Feather Session on National EHR Interoperability and Implementations. The

Model of Independent Health Record Banks.

The HL7 Working Group Meeting in San Diego, USA, January 2004. The Use of

the Genotype Model in the Use cases of Tissue typing, Cystic Fibrosis and Viral

Genotyping.

Biotechnological Incubators Meeting, Hosted by the GTU (IBM-Israel), October,

2003, Petach Tikva, Israel. IBM LS activities and LS/Healthcare Informatics

Standards.

The ILA Annual Medical Informatics Conference, September 2003, Tel Aviv.

What's New in Medical Informatics Standards?

The HL7 Working Group Meeting in Memphis, USA, September 2003. In

Preparation to the first Clinical-Genomics SIG Submission to the HL7 Ballot

Cycle: Storyboards, Domain Analysis and Activity Diagrams, DIM, R-MIMs,

CMET, Glossary.

The HL7 Working Group Meeting in Cleveland, USA, May 2003. The Genotype

Model for Reusable Encapsulation of Clinical-Genomic Data.

The Annual Symposium of Galil Center for Medical Information Systems and

Telemedicine, March 30, 2003, Haifa. Medical Informatics Standards – A Crucial

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Constituent of a Lifetime Electronic Health Record.

IBM Workshop on HL7 modeling. Hawthorne, January 2003. CDA Release Two.

IBM Watson CBC (Computational Biology Center) Special Seminar, January 20,

2003. The Independent Health records Banks and how IBM Technologies could

support it.

The HL7 Working Group Meeting in San Antonio, USA, January 2003.

Introducing Modularity to the HL7 Models of the Use Case of Tissue Typing: HL7

DIM (Domain Information Model) for Tissue Typing in BMT (Bone Marrow

Transplantation), HL7 R-MIM (Refined Message Information Model) for Tissue

Typing Observation and HL7 CMET (Common Message Element Type) for the

Genotype Module.

The First International Conference on CDA, Berlin, Germany, October 2002. CDA

in SHAMAN-IMR.

The HL7 Working Group Meeting in Baltimore, USA, October 2002. Introduction

to Clinical-Genomics and the Tissue Typing Use Case in Clinical Genomics.

The Annual Conference of Information Systems in Medicine (ILA), Tel Aviv,

Israel, June 2002. HL7 – Standardization of Messages and Documents in

Healthcare.

The Annual Conference of Information Systems in Medicine (ILA), Tel Aviv,

Israel, June 2002. A Comprehensive Economic-Medico-Legal Model for Creation-

Sustention-and-Retrieval of Lifetime Health Records.

Information Technologies for Life Sciences Conference, IBM Research Lab in

Almaden, San Jose, USA , February, 2002. Who Needs Integrated Medical

Records?

Information Technologies for Life Sciences Conference, IBM Research Lab in

Almaden, San Jose, USA , February, 2002. Information Technologies for the Bone-

Marrow Transplantation Clinical Domain.

TEHRE – Towards Electronic Health Records Conference, London, UK,

November 2001. Who’s Afraid of Lifetime Health Records?

The International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED99), Munich, Germany,

August 24-26, 1999. Enabling the Web as a Design Medium, in a workshop on

Web-Based Design.

The Annual Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH)

Conference, New Orleans, August 3-9, 1996. Identifying and Addressing Student

Problems in Learning Computer Graphics.

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The Second International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS 96), July 24-

27, 1996, Evanston, Illinois. Computer Science Apprenticeship: Creating Support

for Intermediate Computer Science Students.

The Seventh Conference on Computer-Based Systems and Software Engineering,

June 12-13, 1996, Hertzleya, Israel. Computer Science Apprenticeship.

The Twenty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science

Education, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, February 15-18, 1996. WWW Interactive

Learning Environments for Computer Science Education.

The MIE-93 (Medical Informatics Europe) Conference, Jerusalem, June 1993.

Development and Evaluation of a Computerized Patient Education System for the

Hadassah University Hospital.

The Sixth International Symposium on World Trends in Science and Technology

Education, International Organization of Science and Technology Education

(IOSTE), August 1991, Palm Springs, California. HyperDiagram: Hypertext

Database Courseware to Teach Feedback Mechanisms.

The 25th International Conference of Data Processing, October 23-25, 1990,

Jerusalem, Israel. Integration of Hypertext Databases into the Learning Process.

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters, Encyclopedia Entries & Special Reports

ESF Forward Look Report: Personalised Medicine for the European Citizen -

Towards more precise medicine for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of

disease (iPM). Available at:

http://www.esf.org/fileadmin/Public_documents/Publications/Personalised_Medici

ne.pdf.

Shabo A, Scarpa M. Bridging the Informatics Gap between Bench and Bedside:

Implications to Neurodegenerative Diseases. Published by Springer in the book

“Neurodegenerative Diseases: Integrative PPPM Approach as the Medicine of the

Future”; Editor: Silvia Mandel in the book series "Advances in PPPM" - Editor

Prof. O. Golubnitschaja. 2013.

Shabo, A. (2009). "EHR," Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Editors-in-chief:

Özsu, M. Tamer; Liu, Ling , Springer, 2009. (print and online)

(http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retr

ieval/book/978-0-387-49616-0)

Shabo, A. (2009). "CDA," Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Editors-in-chief:

Özsu, M. Tamer; Liu, Ling , Springer, 2009. (print and online)

(http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retr

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ieval/book/978-0-387-49616-0)

Shabo, A, Hughes, KS. (2007). Family History Information Exchange Services

Using HL7 Clinical Genomics Standard Specifications. In: Sheth A, Lytras M,

eds. Semantic Web-Based Information Systems: State-of-the-Art Applications.

Hershey: Cybertech Publishing (An imprint of Idea Group, Inc.). p 254-278.

Husser, C.S., Buchhalter, J.R., Raffo, O.S., Shabo, A., Brown, S.H., Elkin, P.L.

(2005). Standardization of Microarray and Pharmaocogenomics Data. Methods in

Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery. Larson, R.S. (editor).

Humana Press, London, 2005.n

Papers in Conferences

Vitkin E, Neuvirth-Telem H, Carmeli B, Shabo A, and Farkash A. Bringing

research to the point of care: Hypergenes project study. In proceedings of MIE

(Medical Informatics Europe) 2012, August 26-30, Pisa.

Farkash, A., Neuvirth-Telem, H., Goldschmidt, Y., Conti C., Rizzic, F.,

Bianchi, S., Salvic, E., Cusi, D., and Shabo, A. A Standard Based Approach

for Biomedical Knowledge Representation. In proceedings of MIE (Medical

Informatics Europe) 2011. August 28-31, 2011, Oslo.

Adadi R. Burla, A., Farkash, A., Kent, C., Maman, Y., Shabo, A. From

Biomedical Data Warehouse to Marts: Capturing Disparities while Preserving

Similarities. nsrtieeee rpntIn MedInfo 2010. n3esDebmerneS-e1,nu0e0n. 2sen

0ti ,n3t2DonMIrei2.

Carmel Kent, Ariel Farkash, Anna Burla, Amnon Shabo. Using Standardized

XML Models to Enable Semantic Warehousing. Poster presented at C-SHALS

2010. February 24-26, 2010. Cambridge, MA.

Ariel Farkash, Anna Burla, Carmel Kent, John Timm, Amnon Shabo,

Facilitating the creation of semantic health information models from XML

contents. Poster presented at C-SHALS 2010. February 24-26, 2010.

Cambridge, MA.

Bianchi, S., Burla, A., Conti, C., Farkash, A., Kent, C., Maman, Y. and Shabo,

A. (2009, authorship ordered alphabetically). From Data to Knowledge:

Semantic Warehousing of Diverse Health Information. NGITS'2009 - The 7th

conference on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems. June

16-18, 2009. Haifa, Israel

Bianchi, S., Burla, A., Conti, C., Farkash, A., Kent, C., Maman, Y. and Shabo,

A. (2009, authorship ordered alphabetically). Biomedical Data Integration –

Capturing Similarities while Preserving Disparities. EMBC'09 - the 31st

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Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and

Biology Society. September 2-6, 2009, Minneapolis.

Pochon, P., Hernandez, J, Shabo, A. (2006). Clinical Genomics

Interoperability Using CDISC-HL7 Standards. The CDISC 2006 International

Interchange, North Bethesda, Maryland, September 2006.

Savel, T., Lin, B., Shabo, A., McQuillan, G.M. (2005). The Future of

Transmitting Human Genomic Data in the Public Health Information Network

(PHIN): Using a Prototype Health Level 7 Shared Genotype Refined Message

Information Model (HL7 R-MIM) and the Extensible Markup Language

(XML). 3rd Annual PHIN (Public Health Information Network) Conference,

Atlanta, Georgia, May 2005.

Kaufman, J. H., Decad, G., Eiron I., Ford, D. A., Spellmeyer D., Li, C-S., and

Shabo, A. Collaborative Health Sentinel. IEEE Workshop on Life Science

Data Mining (LSDM), Brighton, UK, November 1, 2004, In conjunction with

ICDM'04: The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2004

(http://neuroinformatics.harvard.edu/web/LSDM-2004.htm)

Gresh, D.L., Rabenhorst, D.A., Shabo, A and Slavin, S. (2002). PRIMA: A

Case Study of Using Information Visualization Techniques for Patient Record

Analysis. In proceedings of VIS2002 (IEEE Visualization 2002), October

2002.

Shabo, A., Vortman V. and Robson B. (2001). Who’s Afraid of Lifetime

Electronic Medical Records? In proceedings of TEHRE – Towards Electronic

Health Records Conference, London, UK, November 2001.

Oxman, R.E, Shabo, A. (1999). The Web as a Visual Design Medium. In

Proceedings of International Conference on Information Visualization (IV 99).

Shabo, A., Nagel, K., Guzdial, M. (1997). JavaCAP: A Collaborative Case

Authoring Program on the WWW. In Proceedings of Computer Support for

Collaborative Learning Conference (CSCL 97).

Guzdial,M., Hmelo, C., Hübscher,R., Nagel,K., Newstetter, W., Puntambekar,

S., Shabo,A., Turns,J., and Kolodner, J.L. (1997). Integrating and Guiding

Collaboration: Lessons Learned in Computer-Supported Collaborative

Learning Research at Georgia Tech. In Proceedings of Computer Support for

Collaborative Learning Conference (CSCL 97).

Shabo, A., Guzdial, M., Stasko, J. (1996). Computer Science Apprenticeship.

In Proceedings of the Seventh Israeli Conference on Computer-Based Systems

and Software Engineering, 77-82, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los

Alamitos, California.

Shabo, A., Guzdial, M., Stasko, J. (1996). Computer Science Apprenticeship:

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Creating Support for Intermediate Computer Science Students. In Proceedings

of the Second International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS 96),

308-315, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

(AACE), Charlottesville, Virginia.

Shabo, A., Kopelman, A. and Chajek-Shaul, T. (1993). Development and

Evaluation of a Computerized Patient Education System for the Hadassah

University Hospital. The MIE-93 (Medical Informatics Europe) Conference,

Jerusalem, June 1993.

Shabo, A., Friedler, Y. (1991). HyperDiagram: Hypertext Database

Courseware to Teach Feedback Mechanisms. In Proceedings of the Sixth

International Symposium on World Trends in Science and Technology

Education. International Organization of Science and Technology Education

(IOSTE), Palm Springs, California.

Friedler, Y. and Shabo, A. (1989) Implementing Microcomputers in the

Science Classroom: Can Theory be Implemented in Practice? In Proceedings

of the Second Jerusalem Convention on Science and Mathematics Education,

edited by S. Vinner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 298-307.

Papers in Journals

In Press:

Shabo, A. It’s Time for Health Record Banking (HRB). Editorial of the

Focus Theme on HRB in the Methods of Information in Medicine Journal

(see http://www.schattauer.de/de/magazine/uebersicht/zeitschriften-a-

z/methods/methods-

news/newsDate/2013/september/13/newsArticle/focus-theme-on-health-

record-banking-deadline-extension.html).

Published:

Cases, M. et al. (2013). Improving data and knowledge management to

better integrate healthcare and research. Journal of Internal Medicine.

Available online at

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joim.12105/abstract.

Shabo, A. (2013). The patient-centric translational health record.

Pharmacogenomics. March 2013, Vol. 14, No. 4, Pages 349-352.

Bellazzi1 R, Masseroli M, Murphy S, Shabo A and Romano P. Clinical

Bioinformatics: challenges and opportunities. BMC Bioinformatics. 2012;

13 Suppl 14:S1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-S14-S1. Epub 2012 Sep 7.

Shabo A. Meaningful use of patient-centric health records for healthcare

transformation. IBM Journal of Research & Development. Vol. 56, No. 5

September / October 2012.

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Erika Salvi, Zoltán Kutalik, Nicola Glorioso, Paola Benaglio, Francesca

Frau, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Hisatomi Arima, Clive Hoggart, Jean Tichet,

Yury P. Nikitin, Costanza Conti, Jitka Seidlerova, Valérie Tikhonoff,

Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, Toby Johnson, Nabila Devos, Laura Zagato,

Simonetta Guarrera, Roberta Zaninello, Andrea Calabria, Benedetta

Stancanelli, Chiara Troffa, Lutgarde Thijs, Federica Rizzi, Galina

Simonova, Sara Lupoli, Giuseppe Argiolas, Daniele Braga, Maria C.

D’Alessio, Maria F. Ortu, Fulvio Ricceri, Maurizio Mercurio, Patrick

Descombes, Maurizio Marconi, John Chalmers, Stephen Harrap, Jan

Filipovsky, Murielle Bochud, Licia Iacoviello, Justine Ellis, Alice V.

Stanton, Maris Laan, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Anna F. Dominiczak, Nilesh

J. Samani, Olle Melander, Xavier Jeunemaitre, Paolo Manunta, Amnon

Shabo, Paolo Vineis, Francesco P. Cappuccio, Mark J. Caulfield, Giuseppe

Matullo, Carlo Rivolta, Patricia B. Munroe, Cristina Barlassina, Jan A

Staessen, Jacques S. Beckmann, Daniele Cusi. Genome-wide association

study using a high-density SNP-array and case-control design identifies a

novel essential hypertension susceptibility locus in the promoter region of

eNOS. Hypertension, December 2011.

J. P. Bigus, M. Campbell, B. Carmeli, M. Cefkin, H. Chang, C.-H. Chen-

Ritzo, W. F. Cody, S. Ebadollahi, A. Evfimievski, A. Farkash, S.

Glissmann, D. Gotz, T. W. A. Grandison, D. Gruhl, P. J. Haas, M. J. H.

Hsiao, P.-Y. S. Hsueh, J. Hu, J. M. Jasinski, J. H. Kaufman, C. A.

Kieliszewski, M. S. Kohn, S. E. Knoop, P. P. Maglio, R. L. Mak, H.

Nelken, C. Neti, H. Neuvirth, Y. Pan, Y. Peres, S. Ramakrishnan, M.

Rosen-Zvi, S. Renly, P. Selinger, A. Shabo, R. K. Sorrentino, J. Sun, T.

Syeda-Mahmood, W.-C. Tan, Y. Y. Y. Tao, R. Yaesoubi, X. Zhu.

Information Technology For Healthcare Transformation. IBM Journal of

Research and Development - Special Issue on the Frontiers of IT. Sept-Oct

2011. Vol. 55, Issue 5, pp 6:1-6:14.

Shabo, A. (2010). Independent health record banks for older people – The

ultimate integration of dispersed and disparate medical records.

Informatics for Health and Social Care. September–December 2010, Vol.

35, No. 3–4, Pages 188-199.

Shabo, A. (2010). Meaningful use of pharmacogenomics in health records:

semantics should be made explicit. Pharmacogenomics (2010) 11(1), 81-

87.

Shabo, A. (2008). Integrating genomics into clinical practice: standards

and regulatory challenges. Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics.

June 2008, 10(3): 267-272.

Shabo, A. (2007). Independent Health Record Banks – Integrating Clinical

and Genomic Data into Patient-Centric Longitudinal and Cross-

Institutional Health Records. Personalized Medicine. November 2007,

4(4): 453-455.

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Shabo, A. (2007). How can the emerging patient-centric health records

lower costs in pharmacogenomics? Pharmacogenomics (2007) 8(5), 507-

511.

Shabo, A. Dotan, D. (2007). The Seventh Layer of Clinical Genomics.

Special Issue on Information-Based Medicine. IBM Systems Journal,

46(1), 1-11.

Shabo, A., Rabinovici-Cohen, S., Vortman, P. (2006). Revolutionary

impact of XML on biomedical information interoperability. IBM Systems

Journal, 45(2):361-372).

Shabo, A. (2006). A Global Socio-Economic-Medico-Legal Model for the

Sustainability of Longitudinal Electronic Health Records: Part 2. Methods

of Information in Medicine. 2006(5): 498-505.

Shabo, A. (2006). A Global Socio-Economic-Medico-Legal Model for the

Sustainability of Longitudinal Electronic Health Records: Part 1. Methods

of Information in Medicine. 2006(3): 240-245.

Shabo, A. (2006). Clinical genomics data standards for pharmacogenetics

and pharmacogenomics - Special Report. Pharmacogenomics, March 2006.

Dolin, R.H., Alschuler, L., Boyer, S. Beebe, C., Behlen, F.M., Biron, P.V.,

Shabo, A. (2006). HL7 Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2. Journal

of the American Medical Informatics Association. 13(1): 30-39.

Shabo, A., Hughes, S.K. (2005). Family History Information Exchange

Services Using HL7 Clinical Genomics Standard Specifications.

International Journal on Semantic Web & Information Systems, 1(4), 42-

65, October-December 2005.

Shabo, A. (2005). The implications of electronic health records for

personalized medicine. Personalized Medicine, Aug 2005, Vol. 2, No. 3,

Pages 251-258.

Vogl, R, Schabetsberger T, Schindelwig K, Haux R, Shabo A. Regional

Registries of Cross-Institutional Patient EHRs as Forerunners of

Independent EHR Banks, J. Qual. Life Res Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2004: 48-52.

Shabo, A. (2004). Synopsis of the Patient Records Section: Structuring the

Medical Narrative in Patient Records - A Further Step towards a Multi-

Accessible EHR. The IMIA 2004 Yearbook of Medical Informatics:

Towards Clinical Bioinformatics.

Shabo, A. (2003). BioIT World, November 2003. Integrated EHR: The

Final Frontier. Harmonizing various standards for electronic health records

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will have far-reaching effects on bioinformatics (available online at

http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/111403/strategic_ehr.html).

Shabo, A. (1997). Integrating Constructionism and Instructionism in

Educational Hypermedia Programs. Journal of Educational Computing

Research. Vol. 17, No. 3, 231-247.

Shabo, A., Guzdial, M., Stasko, J. (1997). An Apprenticeship-Based

Multimedia Courseware for Computer Graphics Studies Delivered on the

World Wide Web. The Computers and Education Journal. Volume 29,

Number 2-3: 103-116.

Shabo, A., Guzdial, M., Stasko, J. (1996). Addressing Student Problems in

Learning Computer Graphics. Computer Graphics, Volume 30, Number 3:

38-40.

Friedler, Y. and Shabo, A. (1990). An Approach to Cost-Effective

Courseware Development. British Journal of Educational Technology,

Volume 22, Number 2: 129-138.

Friedler, Y. and Shabo, A. (1989/90). Developing a High-Level Database

to Teach Reproductive Endocrinology Using the HyperCard Program.

Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, Volume 9, Number 2:

55-66.

Friedler, Y. and Shabo, A. (1989). Using the HyperCard Program to

Develop a Customized Courseware Generator for School Use. Educational

Technology, Volume XXIX, Number 11: 47-51.

Shabo, A., Shabo, H. (1993). From a Murder Mystery to a Learning Tool.

Maase Choshev, the Journal of Information Processing Association of

Israel, Volume 20, Number 2: 7-16. (Published in Hebrew)

Shabo, A. (1990). Who's Afraid of Courseware Development? Maase

Choshev, the Journal of Information Processing Association of Israel,

Volume 17, Number 2: 7-16. (Published in Hebrew)

Shabo, A. Frank, M., Hirsh, S. and Wolfe, C. (1990). TextWord. The

English Teachers' Journal, Volume 41, December 1990, 24-30. (Published

in Israel, in English)

Shabo, A. (1991). A Mystery Game to Teach Spoken English with

Computer and Videodisc. Computers in Education- the Journal for

Advanced Technology in Education, Number 18: 11-20. (Published in

Hebrew)

Shabo, A. (2003). Review of Medical Informatics Standards. The ILA

Journal of Medical Informatics (in Hebrew).

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Other Publications / Presentations:

Shabo, A. (2013). Clinical genomics information exchange: Semantic

challenges. Clinical Genomics Information Exchange. CBMI, Harvard

Medical School. September 27, 2013.

Shabo, A. (2013). Health Information Interoperability. The 1st IEEE

EMBS Summer School on Emerging Technologies and Applications in

Telemedicine, held at Smolenice Castle, Slovak Republic, August 28,

2013.

Barcelona-Debate report – In press.

Shabo, A. (2010). Guest lecturer on Health Records in the Technion

Faculty of Medicine course on Information Systems in Healthcare (March

23, 2010).

Shabo, A. (2006). Guest lecturer on standards (May 18, 2006) in the Haifa

University Public Health course on Health Systems Management –

Information Systems in Health Organizations.

Shabo, A. (2006). The Family History Model. The UK National Reference

Genetic Laboratory in Manchester, May 15, 2006.

Savel, T.G., Lin, B., Shabo, A. (2005). The Future of Transmitting Human

Genomic Data in the Public Health Information Network (PHIN): Using a

Prototype Health Level 7 Shared Genotype Refined Message Information

Model (HL7 R-MIM) and the Extensible Markup Language (XML).

CDC/National Cancer Institute - NHANES Genomics Working Group.

Public Health Information Network Conference, May 2005, Atlanta USA.

Shabo, A. and Millard-Stafford, M. (1997). Use of HyperDiagram in

Teaching Endocrine Physiology. Presented at the 11th Annual Human

Anatomy and Physiology Society Conference (Incorporating the 11th

Annual colleges Biosciences Association Conference) May 31-June 5,

Toronto, Canada.

Shabo, A., Friedler, Y. (1993). Teacher Education for Cost-Effective Use

of Computers. Presented at the International Conference- Teacher

Education: From Practice to Theory, June 27-July 1, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Shabo, A. (1991). The HyperDiagram System: A Customized Courseware

Generator. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of Computers

in Education, July 8-9, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Shabo, A., Friedler, Y. (1990). Development and Evaluation of

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Courseware for Hormonal Regulation in the Female Reproductive System.

Paper presented at the Seventh Annual Conference of Computers in

Education, April, 3-4, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Shabo, A. (1990). A videodisc mystery game for Learning Spoken English.

Paper presented at the Seventh Annual Conference of Computers in

Education, April 3-4, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Shabo, A. (1990). Integration of Hypertext Databases into the Learning

Process. Paper presented at the 25th Conference of Data Processing,

October 23-25, Jerusalem, Israel.

Note: All papers with Friedler are based on my M.Sc. & PhD Dissertations and were

written by myself.

SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

Biology and Medicine:

Hypergenes – leading IBM contribution of IT infrastructure to a large EC FP7-

funded project (20 partners) to explore the genetic, clinical and environmental

factors related to essential hypertension and come up with Lab-on-Chip with the

related DNA variants accompanied by a compressive disease model aiming to

analysis the patient data against the model and support clinical decision support at

the point of care. Genetic analysis will is done through Genome Wide Association

Study using 1m SNP arrays.

Clinical document standards: I’m one of the co-editors of the HL7 Clinical

Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA R2) as well as one of the co-editors of the

Continuity of Care (CCD) implementation guide.

HL7 Clinical Genomics Standards: I’ve led the development of the Family

History specification as well as its final approval by ANSI in May 2007. I’ve also

led the development of the core clinical genomics specifications that were

approved as an ANSI-registered Draft Standard for Trial Use in May 2005. More

recently I’ve led the development of the CDA-based Genetic Testing Report

standard.

CGL7 – Clinical Genomics Level Seven: A set of web services and an API that

can run atop of the IBM Clinical Genomics solution (see below), aiming at the

implementation of the HL7 Clinical Genomics standard specifications (which I led

their design) as well as its underlying workflow paradigm, namely – encapsulate &

bubble-up, supporting the vision of personalized medicine (see paper online at

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/461/shabo.html).

CGv2 (previously known as Shaman-IMR): A clinical-genomics middleware

system to transform, index, and retrieve medical records as well as emerge a

longitudinal health record out of the transformed standardized medical records. My

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part was mainly related to the design and implementation of the electronic health

record (EHR) data model – a fusion of two major standards, the CEN TC251 EN

13606 for EHR and the Clinical Document Architecture (HL7 CDA).

HyperDiagram/WebDiagram: A unique mixture of constructive visualization of

hormonal regulation diagrams, a hypertext database, and a customized authoring

system to study reproductive endocrinology. WebDiagram is a port of

HyperDiagram to the World-Wide-Web within the HapTech site, to support the

learning of the Human Anatomy and Physiology (HAP) classes at Georgia Tech.

Dr.Didact: Multimedia lessons for students of medicine in various clinical

subjects. The didactic format is a branching-out case management accompanied by

a four-level coaching and scaffolding mechanism. Lessons include all types of

media such as graphics, pictures and digitized motion video. Delivered on a mass-

produced CD-ROM.

PatientInfo: An information station in the Day Care Unit at Hadassah Hospital in

Ein-Karem. Contains information about diabetes and nutrition. A simulation

game in diabetes enables the patient and his relatives to practice decision-making

in everyday life.

WebCIP - A Java Applet that implements the CIP (Comprehensive Integrated

Puzzle) Assessment Methodology for medical students. The methodology is

developed by Prof. Rosalie Ber from the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion.

Computer Science:

GRAPHICA: Computer Graphics Apprenticeship-Based Learning Environment.

The system includes visualization modules as well as a case library of interesting

cases in computer graphics, linked to resource materials. The educational mode

enables the learner to go through a problem-based session and be supported by

‘fadeable scaffolding’ features. The pedagogical concept is based on the

apprenticeship model where the novice uses the tools that are used by the experts.

Runs on the WWW and developed with the new object-oriented Internet language-

JAVA.

English as a Second Language:

TextWare: A series of programs (TextWord; TextSummary; TextPrediction;

TextOpinion; TextOutline) to teach English as Second Language. Runs in a

network setup and used by the ESL department at the Hebrew University, the

Language Laboratories.

MysteryDisCourse: A videodisc-based mystery game to help students in their

understanding of spoken English (a re-purposing of the standalone commercial

laserdisc, ‘MysteryDisc’).

Design:

WebPAD: Web-Based tool for Precedents Architectural Design. Multi-layered

casebase for storage and retrieval of architectural precedents. Includes a CBR

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(Case-Based Reasoning) search engine to find similar precedents to the current

design. Supports collaborative work of teams of architects and makes use of

CAAD (Computer-Aided Architectural Design) documents. Implemented as a

three-tier system with Java Applet on the client side and Oracle database as the

precedents casebase.

Miscellaneous:

JavaCAP: A Case Authoring Program for the Learning-by-Design Project at

Georgia Tech. JavaCap implements methods in collaborative writing on the

Internet, where teams can write together multimedia reports while each of the team

members could be in different locations and times. It’s written with Java Server-

Side Applets as the back-end, and HTML as the front-end, using CGI as the

gateway.

TOEZA: A decision support system to help school counselors in middle schools in

Jerusalem, to guide their students to the most appropriate high schools.

Simbela: A videodisc-based point-of-information for use by tourists in Jerusalem.

PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE

Languages Latest used: Java; Previous: Pascal, Fortran, Cobol

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

EFMI: European Federation of Medical Informatics.

IMIA: International Medical Informatics Association.

ILA-MI: The Israeli Association for Medical Information.

HL7: Health Level Seven – An ANSI-Accredited Standard Development

Organization. ISO: The Israeli delegate for the Technical Committee 215 on Health Informatics and an expert on clinical genomics.

Continua Health Alliance: A Standards Development Organization focusing on

home care setting and connectivity between devices like sensors and actuators and

home gateways as well as medical record systems.

PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Biomedical Semantics

(http://www.jbiomedsem.com/about/edboard).

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Member of the Editorial Board, Applied Clinical Informatics (www.aci-

journal.org).

Member of the Honorary Editorial Board, Journal of Pharmacogenomics and

Personalized Medicine (http://www.dovepress.com/honorary-editorial-board-

pharmacogenomics-and-personalized-medicine-edboard38).

Chaired and organized a symposium on the New Generation of EHR - Driving

Healthcare Transformation, on December 6, 2012. Held in IBM Research Lab in

Haifa, see

https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/Workshops/health2012/index.shtml

Chaired and organized a workshop on Family Health History - Challenges in

Utilizing Family Health History for Better Care, on November 17, 2011. Held in

IBM Research Lab in Haifa, see

https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/Workshops/health2011/index.shtml

Chaired and organized the Medical Informatics Day on Translational Medicine,

October 30, 2010 in IBM Research Lab in Haifa, see

https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/Workshops/mi2010/index.shtml

Chaired and organized the first Haifa Research Lab Leadership Seminar on

Healthcare and Life Sciences. In collaboration with Ben Gurion and Haifa

Universities. IBM Haifa Research Lab Auditorium, October 18, 2007. See

program at http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/hcls2007/agenda.html.

Active member of the SDTC (Structured Documents Technical Committee) of the

Standard Development Organization HL7 and a co-editor of the CDA (Clinical

Document Architecture) Release Two Standard Specification.

Co-chair, facilitator, primary contributor and co-founder of the Clinical-Genomics

Special Interest Group of HL7.

Member of the Program Committee of the Israeli Medical Information Association

(ILA-MI) in all conferences since 2006.

Member of the Program Committee of the First and Second International

Conference on CDA, Berlin, Germany, October 2002 and Acapulco, Mexico,

October 2004.

Reviewer for the following journals / conferences / others:

o Methods of Information in Medicine journal

o Computational Biology and Medicine journal

o Healthcare Engineering journal

o Journal of the Learning Sciences

o Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing journal

o AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium

o The Second International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS 96)

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o SIGGRAPH 97 (Computer Graphic SIG, the Educator Program)

o Proposals submitted to the Scientific Incubators in Jerusalem

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1986-2003: Lecturer of undergraduate courses entitled Basic Programming

(Pascal, Fortran, Excel, JAVA-starting at 98/99), at the Faculty of

Mathematics and Natural Sciences, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem. This was a continuous position for 17 years except for two

sabbatical years.

1997-1998: Lecturer of graduate courses at the Technion Science Education Dep.:

Computer Assisted Instruction (using an Internet course site) and

Human and Artificial Intelligence (focusing on Case-based

Reasoning through a network of JAVA objects).

1996: Guest-lecturer in the graduate course Design and Analysis of

Educational Software (CS6398) given at the College of Computing,

Georgia Institute of Technology.

1986-1995: Lecturer of a graduate course entitled Tools for Courseware

Development at the School of Education, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem. (Development tools: HyperCard and AuthorWare)

1994-1995: Lecturer of a graduate course entitled Formative Evaluation of

Courseware programs at the School of Education, The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem.

1989-1995: Initiating, designing, writing a textbook and lecturing an undergraduate

course entitled Usage of Computers for Humanities Students

(through the HyperCard program), at the Humanities Faculty, The

Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1991: Lecturer of a Teacher-Training course entitled Computers in Biology

Teaching at the Teacher Training Department, The Hebrew University

of Jerusalem.

1981-1988: High school teacher for Computer Science and Class Educator at the

high school of ORT College in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.

1987: Lecturer of Teacher-Training course entitled Computers in Education

at David Yalin College for Teachers Training in Jerusalem.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2000-Present: Researcher at IBM Research Lab in Haifa;

Head of IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences Standards Program

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(Since 2009); Co-chair, IBM Research Medical Informatics

Professional Interest Community.

2000: Developing an Internet implementation of a medical

assessment program (CIP-Comprehensive Integrated Puzzle)

for medical students at the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion.

1999-2000: A researcher at the Technion Faculty of Architecture, doing

research on Case-Based Reasoning and Design Cognition (the

Cognitive Design Media Lab). Beside my participation in the

on-going research, these are the areas exclusively covered by

my work: Algorithms Development (e.g., the CBR search

algorithms, the collaborative work mechanisms and more);

Design of the Software Architecture (3-tier: Client – Server -

Database); Java Programming (Client and Server); Connectivity

to Oracle (via Oracle JDBC Drivers); Oracle Database Creation

& Management; Management of the Tool Development.

1998-1999: Designing an Internet access to a PACS (Picture Archiving and

Communication System in medicine) program. In collaboration

with Medical SNI – An Israeli Developer of PACS software.

1995-1997: Post-doctoral fellow at the College of Computing, Georgia

Institute of Technology, working mainly on three research

projects: (1) Visualizations of Computer Science topics; (2)

Case-Based Reasoning and Collaborative Writing in the

Learning-by-Design project; and (3) Problem-Solving Activities

in Human Anatomy and Physiology (a collaboration with the

Biology Department). All projects were web-based and were

developed using the early versions of Java. Affiliated with the

Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center, that was ranked

in 1996 as the best graduate program in the United States by US

News and World Report.

1992-1995: Entrepreneur and director of a start-up company (Mediclick,

Medical Software Development Ltd.) within a framework of the

Scientific Incubators in Jerusalem, aimed to produce

multimedia CD's in Medical Education. The company staff

included six employees. Budget was over three hundred

thousand dollars in two years.

1992-1995: Founder and director of Cliconnect Ltd., a company that

developed multimedia software for special requirements, such

as the Defect Library for Intel Jerusalem to digitize and store

images of defects in Intel chips; A courseware package to teach

and practice Electronic Screening (in Pre-press systems) for

Scitex company; Simaney-Derech, a geographical-oriented

tourism CD about Israel, Film Library for Tel-Aviv University,

the Movie Department; and others.

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1991-1992: Directing a team to produce a Patient Information Station in

collaboration with the Day Care Unit at Hadassah University

Hospital. Instructional design of diabetes and nutrition

modules, and programming of the nutrition module.

1988-1991: Directing the TextWare project in the Language Laboratories

of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The project produced

a series of computer programs to teach English as a Second

language. The team included three programmers and four

teachers from the ESL Department.

1986-1988: Directing a team to produce a videodisc-based point-of-

information station for tourists in Jerusalem, for A.I.T- a joint-

venture of Telad. The team included four programmers.

1985-1986: Directing a team to produce computer programs for displaced

youth, for ORT chain of vocational schools. The team

included four programmers.

1983-1988: Creating and maintaining geographical and sociological

databases, based on the data collected in the 1983 Census in

Israel and other surveys. In addition, producing statistical maps

related to the census data. The Data Archive of the Hebrew

University of Jerusalem.