Alan Rector

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Alan Rector
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Thesis The knowledge based medical record: a design for decision support in general practice (1987)
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Known for Medical Informatics
Notable awards 1st British Computer Society award for lifetime service to Health Informatics (2003)
Website
www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rector

Alan L. Rector is a Professor of Medical Informatics in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK.[8][9][10]

Education

Rector received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pomona College, a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D from the University of Manchester in 1987.[11]

Research

Rector's research[1][12] specialty is clinical terminology,[13][14] SNOMED,[15] GRAIL,[16] OpenGALEN,[17] biomedical ontologies,[18] Artificial Intelligence in medicine,[19] the Web Ontology Language[20] 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.

Rector has been a visiting senior scientist at Stanford University. He has been a consultant to the NHS Information Authority, the Mayo Clinic & Hewlett Packard and Siemens Healthcare. 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. Rector also serves on the board of HL7-UK, the main standards body for Healthcare Informatics and has been involved with the International World Wide Web Conference[21] and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[22]

His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council,[23] the Medical Research Council and the Joint Information Systems Committee.

Awards

In 2003, he received the 1st British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee award for lifetime service to Health Informatics.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alan Rector's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
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  8. ↑ Alan Rector from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
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  12. ↑ Alan Rector's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
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  21. ↑ http://www2006.org/speakers/rector/ Alan Rector speaker information from WWW2006
  22. ↑ Alan Rector introduction on public-semweb-lifesci mailing list
  23. ↑ *Grants awarded to Alan Rector by the EPSRC
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