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Don E Detmer, MD, MA
Principal Investigator, Project 6.
Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, is President and Chief Executive Officer, American Medical Informatics Association. He is also Professor of Medical Education in the Department
of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia,
and Visiting Professor at CHIME, University College of London. Dr. Detmer is a member of the US Institute of Medicine as well as a lifetime Associate of the National Academies,
a fellow of AAAS as well as the American Colleges of Medical Informatics, Sports Medicine, and Surgeons. In addition to co-chairing the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group, he chairs the board of MedBiquitous, an educational standard setting organization. He sits on the AHIC Security and Confidentiality Subcommittee and Clinical Decision ad hoc work group in US Department of Health and Human Services and the Governor's Health Information Technology Council of Virginia. He is Treasurer of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.
Dr. Detmer is past chairman of the Board on Health Care Services of the IOM, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. He was a Commissioner on the President's recent Commission on Systemic Interoperability. He chaired the 1991 IOM study, “The Computer-based Patient Record” and co-edited the 1997 version of the same report. He was a member of the committee that developed the IOM Reports, ‘To Err is Human' and “Crossing the Quality Chasm.” From 1999-2003 he was the Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at Cambridge University and is a lifetime member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge.
He has been a consultant to the government of England and the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong. Prior to the years in England, he was Vice President for Health Sciences at the Universities of Virginia and Utah. While at Virginia he supported implementation of a physician order entry system and was principal investigator of its IAIMS grant.
While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he developed the nation's first Administrative Medicine Program, a Master's degree program for clinician-executives. As a surgeon, he was instrumental in the adoption and development of ambulatory surgery in the early 1970s, was team physician for the Wisconsin Badgers for ten years while also serving as President of
the Medical Staff and did fundamental work on chronic compartment syndromes. He won a UW-Madison Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award.
His education includes a medical degree from the University of Kansas with subsequent training at the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, the Institute of Medicine, and Harvard Business School. His MA is from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Detmer's research interests include national health information policy, quality improvement, administrative medicine, compartment syndromes, and management of academic health centers. He has written and edited a number of research articles, books, book chapters, and monographs on these topics.
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