Alan Rector
Known forMedical Informatics
Awards1st British Computer Society award for lifetime service to Health Informatics (2003)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisThe knowledge based medical record: a design for decision support in general practice (1987)
Notable students
Websitewww.cs.man.ac.uk/~rector

Alan L. Rector is a Professor of Medical Informatics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK.[2][3][4]

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.[5]

Research

Rector's research[1][6] specialty is clinical terminology,[7][8] SNOMED,[9] GRAIL,[10] OpenGALEN,[11] biomedical ontologies,[12] Artificial Intelligence in medicine,[13] the Web Ontology Language[14] 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[15] and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[16]

His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council,[17] 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. ^ a b Alan Rector publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ Alan Rector author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  3. ^ Rector, A. L.; Nowlan, W. A.; Kay, S (1991). "Foundations for an electronic medical record". Methods of Information in Medicine. 30 (3): 179–86. doi:10.1055/s-0038-1634836. PMID 1943789. S2CID 17423987.
  4. ^ Rector, A. L. (2003). "Modularisation of domain ontologies implemented in description logics and related formalisms including OWL". Proceedings of the international conference on Knowledge capture - K-CAP '03. pp. 121–128. doi:10.1145/945645.945664. ISBN 978-1581135831. S2CID 2957365.
  5. ^ Rector, Alan (1987). The knowledge based medical record: a design for decision support in general practice (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.(subscription required)
  6. ^ Alan L. Rector at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  7. ^ Rector, A. (1999). "Clinical terminology: Why is it so hard?". Methods of Information in Medicine. 38 (4–5): 239–252. doi:10.1055/s-0038-1634418. PMID 10805008. S2CID 7827430.
  8. ^ Rector, A.; Rogers, J.; Bittner, T. (2006). "Granularity, scale and collectivity: When size does and does not matter". Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 39 (3): 333–349. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2005.08.010. PMID 16515892.
  9. ^ Rector, A. L.; Brandt, S. (2008). "Why Do It the Hard Way? The Case for an Expressive Description Logic for SNOMED". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 15 (6): 744–751. doi:10.1197/jamia.M2797. PMC 2585532. PMID 18755993.
  10. ^ Rector, A.; Bechhofer, S.; Goble, C.; Horrocks, I.; Nowlan, W.; Solomon, W. (1997). "The GRAIL concept modelling language for medical terminology" (PDF). Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 9 (2): 139–171. doi:10.1016/S0933-3657(96)00369-7. PMID 9040895.
  11. ^ Rector, A.; Solomon, W.; Nowlan, W.; Rush, T.; Zanstra, P.; Claassen, W. (1995). "A Terminology Server for medical language and medical information systems" (PDF). Methods of Information in Medicine. 34 (1–2): 147–157. doi:10.1055/s-0038-1634569. PMID 9082124. S2CID 7978610.
  12. ^ Smith, B.; Ceusters, W.; Klagges, B.; Köhler, J.; Kumar, A.; Lomax, J.; Mungall, C.; Neuhaus, F.; Rector, A. L.; Rosse, C. (2005). "Relations in biomedical ontologies". Genome Biology. 6 (5): R46. doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r46. PMC 1175958. PMID 15892874.
  13. ^ Rector, A. (2001). "AIM: A personal view of where I have been and where we might be going". Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 23 (1): 111–127. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.381.3438. doi:10.1016/s0933-3657(01)00078-1. PMID 11470219.
  14. ^ Rector, A.; Drummond, N.; Horridge, M.; Rogers, J.; Knublauch, H.; Stevens, R.; Wang, H.; Wroe, C. (2004). "OWL Pizzas: Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL: Common Errors & Common Patterns". Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3257. pp. 63–81. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30202-5_5. ISBN 978-3-540-23340-4.
  15. ^ http://www2006.org/speakers/rector/ Alan Rector speaker information from WWW2006
  16. ^ Alan Rector introduction on public-semweb-lifesci mailing list
  17. ^ *Grants awarded to Alan Rector Archived 15 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine by the EPSRC
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