| Alan Rector | |
|---|---|
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
| Notable students | Ian Horrocks, Carole Goble |
| Known for | Medical Informatics |
| Notable awards | 1st British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee award for lifetime service to Health Informatics, 2003 |
Professor Alan L. Rector is a Medical Informatician in the University of Manchester School of Computer Science in the UK. He received the B.A. from Pomona College, the M.D. from University of Minnesota and the Ph.D from the University of Manchester.[1]
His specialty is clinical terminology,[2][3] SNOMED,[4] GRAIL,[5] OpenGALEN,[6] biomedical ontologies,[7] Artificial Intelligence in medicine,[8] the Web Ontology Language[9] and the development of the semantic web. He presently leads the CO-ODE and HyOntUse projects developing user-oriented ontology development environments under the JISC and EPSRC Semantic Web and Autonomic Computing initiatives as well as the CLEF project, developing secure and ethical methods to collect live patient record data, under the MRC eScience initiative.
He has been a visiting senior scientist at Stanford University. He has been a consultant to the NHS Information Authority, the Mayo Clinic & Hewlett Packard, He is a member of the JISC Committee for the Support of Research, the National Cancer Research Institute Board for Bioinformatics, the Joint NHS/Higher Education Forum on Informatics, and the Board of the Academic Forum of the UK Institute for Health Informatics He on the board of HL7-UK, the main standards board for the subject.
In 2003, he received the 1st British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee award for lifetime service to Health Informatics.
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