I was born in 1972 in Pinsk, a city in Western Belarus, then a republic of the
former USSR. Finished eight years of high school in Mogilev - a large
industrial regional center, and enrolled into a four-year physician
assistant program in Pinsk's medical technical school. After completing
two years of school, my family and I left the USSR in November of 1989. We
lived in a suburb of Vienna, Austria for three weeks and subsequently in
Rome and Santa Marinella, Italy for five months in the process of our
immigration to the United States. We arrived to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in
May of 1990.
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster,
PA. Graduated in 1994 with Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Biology.
Pre-Medical Arts Program. Concentration in Computer Science,
International Politics and Business Administration. Independent research
in areas of biochemistry, molecular biology and physiology - "Protein
phosphorylation in mitochondria of etiolated oat shoots: mechanisms of
regulation." William & Lucille Hackman and Howard Huges Scholar.
Tutorial in digital image acquisition, processing and analysis. Consultant in designing digital image analysis laboratory, work reflected in NSF proposal "Implementation of Digital Image Processing and Analysis in a Biology Curriculum." Physician Preceptorship program in Lancaster General Hospital.
Computing Services Manager in Center for Information Systems and Computing
Services, Franklin & Marshall College. Troubleshooting of applications,
System software and various hardware as well as support for Macintosh
users on campus among faculty, staff and administration. Familiarity with
Apple Macintosh line of computers and peripherals. System design,
installation and training of new users. Expertise in numerous software
applications. Knowledgeable in a variety of networking and communications
software, Internet and available services and resources. Computer programming in BASIC, Pascal and C with emphasis on Macintosh interface design.
An article "Using computers... liberally" featuring myself and a few other F&M alumni working in the field of biomedical informatics was published in Franklin & Marshall Magazine in Spring of 2006.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh,
PA. Graduated in 1998 with MD degree. Member of American Medical Association, American Medical Student
Association, Pennsylvania Medical Society, Allegheny County Medical
Society, American Medical Informatics Association. Research involving computer-based audiovisual teaching aids in
medical education - Tome, Julie A., MD, M. S. Gendelman, MD, S. L. Kanter,
MD, M. Palchuk, J. E. Janosky, Ed.D., P. Seidman, MD. "Comparison of a
Multimedia Observation of Performance Examination with Traditional
Performance-Based Examinations." Anesthesia & Analgesia, Volume 28 (2S),
February 1996. Secretary of the Student Executive Council (SEC) during the 1996 term. Volunteer at Belarus-American Child Health
Foundation, Pennsylvania-Russia Business Council. Continue to work on Russification of Macintosh server, currently in its third edition.
MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA; managed by Drexel University, formerly Hahnemann University and Medical College of Pennsylvania (I don't like to mention Allegheny University of Health Sciences here). Residency training in Categorical Internal Medicine, Class of 2001. Hahnemann University Hospital, Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP) Hospital and Elkins Park Hospital of the Tenet Healthcare system.
Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA. Fellowship in Medical Informatics, a two-year (2001-2003) program emphasing clinical informatics. Research in standards for data representation and communications, data modeling, electronic medical records, personal health records, and application security. Personal Internetworked Notary and Guardian (PING) project. Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD, mentor. Fellowship funded by the National Library of Medicine.
Concurrently earned a Masters of Science in Medical Informatics degree at the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Thesis on "Access Control in Personal Electronic Medical Records."
Clinical Informatics Research and Development division of the IS department at Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA. Senior Medical Informatics Specialist (2003-present). After being in school or treated as a student for 13 years, finally my first serious job!
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Instructor in Medicine (2005-present).
Consulting in Medical Informatics. Contact me for details. Key skills:
- Experience in product management at large integrated delivery network
- Expertise in information management as applied to medicine
- Strong grounding in areas of data acquisition and intreroperability
- Special interest in standards and controlled vocabularies
- Research in patient-controlled health records and issues of privacy and security
- Hands-on experience in data modeling/representation, programming, and database management
