John Faughnan

John Faughnan

Product Director at McKesson Provider Technologies

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Current
Past
Education
  • University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  • McGill University
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Williams College
  • Vanier College
  • Father McDonald
  • Michigan State University
Connections
197 connections
Industry
Hospital & Health Care

John Faughnan’s Summary

Applied knowledge representation for the art, science, and industry of health care. I sometimes call myself an "industrial ontologist". I also teach this topic at the University of Minnesota (adjunct, part-time).

John Faughnan’s Specialties:

Physician (family medicine), health informatics, "industrial ontology", eclectic thinking and invention.


John Faughnan’s Experience

  • Adjunct Professor

    University of Minnesota

    (Hospital & Health Care industry)

    2001Present (8 years)

  • Product Director, Clinical Content

    McKesson Provider Technologies

    (Public Company; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    2001Present (8 years)

  • Product Director

    McKesson

    (Hospital & Health Care industry)

    2000Present (9 years)

  • Product Director

    McKesson

    (Hospital & Health Care industry)

    2000Present (9 years)

  • Product Director

    McKesson

    (Hospital & Health Care industry)

    2000Present (9 years)

  • Product Manager

    Abaton.com

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 1996December 2000 (4 years 5 months)

    Startup company in health care IT clinical process automation. Mostly I designed components of our applications and worked on knowledge representation problems. Despite the title I was more of an analyst/inventor than a true product manager.

  • Assistant Professor

    Michigan State University

    (Hospital & Health Care industry)

    19891994 (5 years)

  • Assistant Professor

    Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    July 1989July 1994 (5 years 1 month)

    I did general practice in Escanaba Michigan, taught medicals students and eventually lead the pre-doc primary care curriculum and did research in health informatics.


John Faughnan’s Education

  • University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

    MS , Health Informatics , 19911992

  • McGill University

    MD , Medicine , 19821986

  • California Institute of Technology

    BS , Chemistry , 19781981

    Activities and Societies:
    Caltech Y, probably some others but that was a long time ago
  • Williams College

    Liberal arts 19801980

    I was an exchange student from Caltech.

    Activities and Societies:
    Helped start some newspaper.
  • Vanier College

    Other , Sciences , 19761978

    This isn't relevant to my corporate profile, though in fact my Vanier experience was rather more important than one might expect. I quite enjoyed it.

    Activities and Societies:
    I was a keen member of the Vanier Chinese Students Association.
  • Father McDonald

    Reading, writing, etc. 19711976

  • Michigan State University

    Primary Care Research and Education Fellowship 1988


Additional Information

John Faughnan’s Groups:

American Medical Informatics Association

  •    Caltech Alumni Association
  •    Health Informatics Technology (HIT)
  •    McKesson Alumni
  •    Thomas J. Watson Foundation Alumni
  •    McKesson Connection

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