BCIG SPEAKER EVENT:
"Networks in the Service of Healthcare"
Clinical
Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)
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DESCRIPTION: Today's Internet is an outgrowth of decades of Federal
investment in research networks, beginning with the Defense Department's
ARPANET, through the National Science Foundation's NSFnet. The federal
government=s Next Generation Internet (NGI) Program was the next logical step in
the cycle of evolving networking technologies and infrastructure necessary to
economically support research and development. The goal of the NGI Program was
to develop IP based technology that offers reliable, affordable, secure
information delivery at thousands of times faster rates. The National Library of
Medicine (NLM) represented the needs of healthcare in the NGI Program. NLM
sponsored clinically based testbed projects demonstrating the value of NGI
technology to healthcare. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina it has become
clear that the NGI goal of high reliability might also include ultra low
bandwidth technology that will work under extremely adverse conditions. This
notion raises other problems, some unique to the healthcare environment, in a
world geared to high bandwidth communications.
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3:00 - 4:30 pm November 16, 2006
Michael J. Ackerman
National Library of Medicine
Assistant Director for High Performance Computing and Communications
Michael J. Ackerman
received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in
Biomedical Engineering. After graduation he served as a research physiologist
in the Hyperbaric Medicine and Physiology Department, Naval Medical Research
Institute, where he studied the effects of the hyperbaric environment on
neurophysiology and behavior. He later became head of the Institute's
Biomedical Engineering and Computing Branch responsible for the application of
computers to real time medical data analysis and the control and monitoring of
diving systems. Dr. Ackerman came to the National Library of Medicine in 1987.
He served as the Chief of the Educational Technology Branch of the Lister Hill
National Center for Biomedical Communications, applying interactive technology
to medical education, and as the Associate Director for Specialized Information
Services responsible for the Library's non-bibliographic data bases. He is
currently NLM’s Assistant Director for High Performance Computing and
Communications, providing guidance for NLM’s telemedicine, distance
collaboratory, advanced networking and imaging interests. He holds academic
appointments as an Associate Professor in Computer Medicine at George Washington
University and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical
Informatics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has
published a book, and over 170 papers and book chapters.
Dr.
Ackerman is active in the field of medical informatics. He was a charter member
and served as Treasurer of the American Association for Medical Systems and
Informatics (AAMSI). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Symposium
for Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC) from 1976 to 1988 and served
as its President. He was the Program Chair for the 9th SCAMC and Finance Chair
for Medinfo'86. He is a founding member of the American Medical Informatics
Association (AMIA), and served as Treasurer, Secretary, chair of the Meetings
Committee, and as a member of the Board of Directors. He was co-chair of the
1992 Health Science Communications Association (HeSCA) Annual Meeting, a
consultant to the Radiological Society of North America's Electronic
Communications Committee, a member of the American Physical Therapy
Association's Advisory Panel on the Resource Center for Research and the United
States Pharmacopeial Convention's Advisory Panel on Consumer Interest and Health
Education. He was elected a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of
Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 1992 and a Fellow of the American
College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) in 1985. He currently serves on the
Editorial Boards of Telemedicine & e-Health, the Journal of the American
Medical Informatics Association, and the IEEE Transactions on Information
Technology in Biomedicine.
Dr.
Ackerman's work has been recognized through numerous awards including the 1998
Johns Hopkins University Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Award, 1997
Government Technology Leadership Award, 1996 National Institutes of Health
Director's Award, the 1996 Friends of the National Library of Medicine Public
Service Award, the 1996 Satava Award for Medical Applications of Virtual
Reality, the 1995 Public Health Service Special Recognition Award, the 1994
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Dedicated Service
Award, the 1993 and 2003 American Medical Informatics Association President's
Awards, the 1993 Health Sciences Communications Association Special Achievement
Award, and the 1992 National Institutes of Health Award of Merit. His work on
the Visible Human Project was nominated as a finalist for a 1995 Discover
Magazine Award for Technological Innovation in Software and a 1996 Smithsonian
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