Dr. Heiko Spallek

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University of Pittsburgh
School of Dental Medicine
Center for Dental Informatics
Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 2002
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Mailing Address

University of Pittsburgh
School of Dental Medicine
3501 Terrace St.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (412) 648-8882
Fax: (412) 648-9960
heiko@spallek.com
http://www.spallek.com/heiko/research.html

Qualifications

M.B.A., Temple University, Information Technology, 2000.
DMD, Humboldt University, 1993.
Ph.D., Humboldt University, Dental Material Sciences, 1993.

Expertise and Research Interests

Dr. Spallek is Assistant Professor at the Center for Dental Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine. Since 1994, Dr. Spallek's research interests have focus on the development of Web-based educational resources for dental professionals. Dr. Spallek developed and directs a predoctoral course on computer applications in dentistry. As core faculty member, he lectures in the NIDCR/NLM-funded postgraduate training program in DI. He published the first textbook on dental Internet applications in Germany (1997) and in the United States (1998). He is co-founder and a principal of S3 Web Technologies, LLC, an Internet services and consulting company for the dental and medical markets. Dr. Spallek is member of the Working Group Steering Committee of the American Medical Informatics Association. He recently received a NLM grant (G08) to build an Dental Informatics Online Community
(http://www.dentalinformatics.com/).

In his own words: "I started to develop systems which where designed under the broadcast paradigm which centers around the teacher, not the student. This one-size-fits-all approach resembles a mass-production idea in which 'you teach the same thing to students in the same way and assess them all in the same way.' (1) My current projects try to exploit adaptive hypermedia research in order to move to an individual teaching approach. This learner-centered education begins with the selection of a learning goal, the evaluation of abilities and the determination of the individual learning style in order to structure and tailor the offered material in the most efficient way. As foreseen by Papert, Seymour in 1996, 'In the learning environment of the future, every learner will be special. (2)'

1. Howard Gardner of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
2. Papert, S. The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap. Marietta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1996

Other Expertise

Non-destructive ultrasonic evaluation of compound dental materials.

Future Research

Online communities
Speech recognition

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Dental Health and Hygiene, Medical Informatics.

Additional Terms:

Adaptive Hypermedia, Dental Informatics, Information Needs Assessment, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Online Communities, Social Networking.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
German: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Russian: (Functional, Basic, Basic)

Memberships

American Dental Association
American Dental Education Association
American Medical Informatics Association
IEEE Computer Society
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
International Medical Informatics Association's Working Group 11, Dental Informatics
National Association of Photoshop Professionals

Honors and Awards

2001, 2001 Instructional Computing in Dentistry Competition: Honorable Mention, American Dental Education Association (ADEA), Interactive Anterior PFM Crown Preparation Module
1990-1993, Merritt Stipend, Friedrich Naumann Endowment

Previous Positions

1996-2001, Assistant Professor, Temple University, School of Dentistry, Dental Informatics
1993-1996, Assistant Professor, Humboldt University, Dental Medicine, Periodontology

Funding Received

  • Friedrich Naumann Endowment: Students Grant from the Talents Department, $18,000, Sep 1, 1990 to Sep 30, 1993.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): R13 Conference: Dental Informatics and Dental Research (co-investigator), $64,000, Jan 4, 2002 to Mar 31, 2003.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Feasibility of a Natural Language Processing-based Dental Charting Application (co-investigator 10%), $272,000, 2007 to 2009.
  • NLM: Dental Informatics Online Community (principal investigator), $350,525, 2006 to 2008.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Center for Clinical and Translational Informatics (CCTI) of the University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Research Institute (co-investigator: 15%), , 2006 to 2011.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Bretz W: Dental Caries Traits: The Genetic Contribution. annual direct costs: 1R01 DE015351 (co-investigator: 5%), $250,000, 2004 to 2008.
  • University of Pittsburgh Innovation in Education Award: Adaptive hypermedia to introduce tissue engineering to dental, medical and engineering students. (co-director), $23,484, 2003 to 2004.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Dental Informatics Training Grant (faculty 5%), , 1997 to 2007.

Publications

  • Spallek H (Dec 2003) Adaptive hypermedia: a new paradigm for educational software., Advances in Dental Research, 17, 38-42 Abstract
  • Schleyer TK, Spallek H, Bartling WC, Corby P (Jan 2003) The technologically well-equipped dental office., Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 134 (1), 30-41 Abstract
  • Spallek H (Jul 2002) Information retrieval on the Internet: a guide for dental practitioners., Dental Clinics of North America, 46 (3), 435-62 Abstract
  • Spallek H, Pilcher E, Lee JY, Schleyer T, Evaluation of web-based dental CE courses, Journal of Dental Education, 66(3), 393-404, March 2002 Abstract
  • Spallek H, Pilcher E, Lee JY, Schleyer T (Mar 2002) Evaluation of web-based dental CE courses., Journal of Dental Education, 66 (3), 393-404 Abstract
  • Schleyer T, Spallek H, An evaluation of five dental Internet portals, Journal of the American Dental Association, 133(2), 204-12, February 2002 Abstract
  • Schleyer T, Spallek H (Feb 2002) An evaluation of five dental Internet portals., Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 133 (2), 204-12 Abstract
  • Oliver R, Paganelli C, Cerny D, Gravert C, Klinge B, Kordass B, Johnson L, O'Keefe J, Onisei D, Podesta MT, Schleyer T, Spallek H (2002) 4.3 Towards a global superstore of quality-assured modularized learning programmes., European Journal of Dental Education : Official Journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe., 6 Suppl 3, 147-51 Abstract
  • Schleyer T, Spallek H, Dental informatics. A cornerstone of dental practice, Journal of the American Dental Association, 132(5), 605-13, May 2001 Abstract
  • Spallek H, Spallek G, [Effective use of medical-scientific internet resources], Ophthalmologe, 96(11), 741-8, November 1999 Abstract
  • Spallek H, Schleyer TK, Educational implications for copyright in a digital world, Journal of Dental Education, 63(9), 673-81, September 1999 Abstract
  • Spallek H, Schleyer TK, Internet basics, Journal of the American College of Dentists, 66(2), 6-15, Summer 1999 Abstract
  • Schleyer TK, Spallek H, Torres-Urquidy MH, A profile of current Internet users in dentistry, Journal of the American Dental Association, 129(12), 1748-53, December 1998 Abstract
  • Spallek H, Freigang B, [Effective research with the internet], Laryngo- Rhino- Otologie, 77(6), 347-51, June 1998 Abstract
  • Spallek H, Gougousoudis A, Johnson WW, Scientific data-exchange in periodontology via Internet, Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 23(5), 497-504, May 1996 Abstract

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