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: [email protected]
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.
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