
VP Knowledge Engineering at Clinical Knowledge Solutions and co-owner, Clinical Knowledge Solutions
New Zealand

VP Knowledge Engineering at Clinical Knowledge Solutions and co-owner, Clinical Knowledge Solutions
New Zealand
- 10+ years of clinical experience in a variety of medical, surgical and primary care specialties and settings.
- 10+ years of experience in clinical decision support product development and integration (in the United States, New Zealand and Australian markets), including: "info-button" integrated provision of patient specific management and treatment recommendations using patient data from within clinical applications; consulting on data structures and terminologies for single disease order sets in computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE) applications; consulting on multiple co-morbidity based order sets for CPOE applications.
- 10+ years of experience in evidence-based medicine and literature/research.
- 17+ years of experience in the fields of fitness instruction, personal training, sports medicine and injury rehabilitation, at a variety of levels and settings.
- Excellent Information Systems and Information Technology knowledge and experience.
- Knowledge and experience pertaining to health informatics topics and standards: messaging and vocabulary/terminology standards (including HL7, SNOMED, ICD, LOINC), medical/clinical knowledge representation and data modelling, physician referential and workflow applications, and clinical decision-support integration.
- Significant web design experience, including standards-compliant HTML, XHTML, CSS, server-side scripting (PHP, MySQL) and client-side scripting.
Evidence-based medicine
Literature evaluation
Technical writing
Technical editing
Sports medicine
Health and fitness instruction
Medical informatics
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)
Clinical Knowledge Solutions Ltd is a multidisciplinary team of clinicians providing clinical decision support knowledge/evidence-based content and consulting services to health information system vendors and the health sector in New Zealand, Australia and the United States
(Public Policy industry)
March 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 3 months)
(Privately Held; Medical Practice industry)
2000 — 2005 (5 years )
Sports Doctor to ATP members.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Publishing industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year )
Product development, data-modeling, knowledge engineering for Clinical Decision Support systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Publishing industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
Team Leader, Content Integration & Lexical Projects, WoltersKluwer Health (Clin-eguide division - provider of clinical decision support systems).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Publishing industry)
November 1999 — 2001 (2 years )
Adis International Ltd (Health Information Systems division)
(Sole Proprietorship; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
Ponsonby RL Club, ARL rugby league competition (2000 season); Central Sharks, ARL rugby league competition (1999 season); Pacific Island Rugby League Invitational games (Nov-98); NZ Men's Hockey, training camp (Jul-98); Ironman Triathlon (Mar-98); Central Sharks, ARL rugby league competition (1998 season)
(Medical Practice industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
(Hospital & Health Care industry)
February 1995 — November 1999 (4 years 10 months)
Auckland Healthcare, Mercy Hospital, Waitemata Health.
Departments/specialties worked in include: general medicine, general surgery, psychiatry, orthopedic surgery, urology, emergency medicine, intensive care, healthcare services for the elderly, neurosurgery, neurology, hematology, vascular surgery, oncology, and palliative medicine.
(Educational Institution; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
1992 — 1996 (4 years )
Masters of Health Management , Health Informatics , 2006 — 2009
Includes: Research Methods for Health Services, Information and Strategic Health Management, Health and Public Policy, System Dynamics Modeling in Healthcare
PostGrad Diploma Business , Health Informatics , 2004 — 2005
Includes: Information Systems, Information Technology, Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence-based Care, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Electronic Health Records, HL7 Messaging
Diploma SportsMed , Sports Medicine , 1997 — 1998
MBChB , Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery , 1992 — 1994
Certificate in Advanced Resistance Training , 1993 — 1993
In conjunction with "Fitness Leader Certification Program".
Certificate of attainment in Sport and Muscular Conditioning , 1991 — 1991
(Previously "Auckland Institute of Technology")
Level One Strength and Conditioning , 1991 — 1991
BHB , Bachelor of Human Biology , 1989 — 1991
Publications: - Reichert J C, Glasgow M J, Naurus S P, Clayton P D. Using LOINC to Link an EMR to the Pertinent Paragraph in a Structured Reference Knowledge Base. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium 2002. PMID: 12463904 - Cartwright J, de Sylva S, Glasgow M, et al. Inaccessible information is useless information: addressing the knowledge gap. Journal of Medical Practice Management 2002;18(1):36-41. PMID: 12235945
American College of Sports Medicine