Alan Rector

Alan Rector

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Institutions University of Manchester
Notable students Ian Horrocks, Carole Goble
Known for Medical Informatics
Notable awards 1st British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee award for lifetime service to Health Informatics, 2003

Professor Alan L. Rector is a Medical Informatician in the University of Manchester School of Computer Science in the UK. He received the B.A. from Pomona College, the M.D. from University of Minnesota and the Ph.D from the University of Manchester[1].

His specialty is clinical terminology[2][3], SNOMED[4], GRAIL[5], OpenGALEN[6], biomedical ontologies[7], Artificial Intelligence in medicine[8], the Web Ontology Language[9] 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.

He has been a visiting senior scientist at Stanford University. He has been a consultant to the NHS Information Authority, the Mayo Clinic & Hewlett Packard, 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 He on the board of HL7-UK, the main standards board for the subject.

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

References

  1. ^ http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rector/home_page_rector/ Alan Rector's homepage at the University of Manchester
  2. ^ Rector, A. (1999). "Clinical terminology: Why is it so hard?". Methods of information in medicine 38 (4–5): 239–252. doi:10.1267/METH99040239. PMID 10805008.  edit
  3. ^ 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.  edit
  4. ^ 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. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2585532.  edit
  5. ^ Rector, A.; Bechhofer, S.; Goble, C.; Horrocks, I.; Nowlan, W.; Solomon, W. (1997). "The GRAIL concept modelling language for medical terminology". Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 9 (2): 139–171. doi:10.1016/S0933-3657(96)00369-7. PMID 9040895. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ian.horrocks/Publications/download/1997/RBGH97.pdf.  edit
  6. ^ Rector, A.; Solomon, W.; Nowlan, W.; Rush, T.; Zanstra, P.; Claassen, W. (1995). "A Terminology Server for medical language and medical information systems". Methods of information in medicine 34 (1–2): 147–157. PMID 9082124.  edit
  7. ^ Smith, B.; Ceusters, W.; Klagges, B.; Köhler, J.; Kumar, A.; Lomax, J.; Mungall, C.; Neuhaus, F. et al. (2005). "Relations in biomedical ontologies". Genome Biology 6 (5): R46. doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r46. PMC 1175958. PMID 15892874. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1175958.  edit
  8. ^ 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. PMID 11470219.  edit
  9. ^ 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. 3257. pp. 63–81. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30202-5_5.  edit

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