Jack W. Smith

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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
School of Health Information Sciences
DeanAppointed: 2005
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
School of Health Information Sciences
Health Informatics
ProfessorAppointed: 1998
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Mailing Address

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
School of Health Information Sciences
7000 Fannin Street
Suite 600 (UCT)
Houston, Texas 77030
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (713) 500-3909
Fax: (713) 500-3907
Jack.W.Smith@uth.tmc.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Ohio State University, Computer and Information Science, 1986.
M.S., Ohio State University, Computer and Information Science, 1980.
M.D., West Virginia University Medical School, Medicine, 1977.
B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Physics, 1973.

Expertise and Research Interests

Dr. Smith is board certified in Pathology and has a doctorate in Computer Science in the area of Artificial Intelligence. He has funded research in the modeling of problem-solving in healthcare and its application to the implementation of decision-support and intelligent tutoring systems. This includes projects to create decision-support and tutoring systems. His current research focuses on modeling clinican understanding and the implementation of systems to support tutoring and the decision-making processes of healthcare specialists, flight surgeons and biomedical engineers. His research interests include the modeling of complex human problem-solving in healthcare, the representations of knowledge for automating these processes and the application of cognitive science to the understanding of human-computer interaction.

Other Expertise

Dr. Smith currently serves as the Co-Director of the Bioinformatics Component of the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Jack Smith has served as Deputy Director for Medical Informatics and Healthcare Systems at NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. Medical Informatics and Healthcare Systems is concerned with the issues surrounding the collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, and transmission of medical information related to spaceflight at NASA JSC. This includes investigations in a number of areas such as medical devices for collecting information both on the ground and on orbit, electronic patient records for quality and timely astronaut care, security measures to enable remote access to medical information, warehouses of medical data to enable further analyses used to determine risk factors and develop countermeasures, and technologies to support international partner collaboration on medical issues.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence or Cybernetics, Computer and Information Sciences, Human-Computer Interaction, Informatics, Pathology.

Additional Terms:

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Security Systems, HIPPA, Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Medicial Decision-support.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)

Memberships

American College of Medical Informatics
American Medical Informatics Association
American Medical Informatics Association Academic Forum
Association for Computing Machinery
National Institutes of Health Center Scientific Review

Honors and Awards

1989, Elected Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics
1988, Collaborative Research in Allied Health, Ohio State University
1987, Young Investigator Award for Research in Medical Knowledge Systems, American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics
1985-1989, Career Development Award, National Library of Medicine; NIH, Computer-Based Pathology Consultant
1985, Best Paper Award, 18th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science
1982, Certified, American Board of Pathology, Clinical Pathology

Previous Positions

2003-2005, Interim Dean, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Health Information Sciences, Health Informatics
2002-2002, Associate Dean, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Health Information Sciences
2001-2002, Associate Dean for Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Health Information Sciences
2000-2006, Deputy Director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas, Medical Informatics and Healthcare Systems
1998-2001, Chair, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Health Information Sciences, Health Informatics
1997-1998, Director, Ohio State University, Clinical Outcomes Research
1995-1996, Acting Associate Director, Ohio State University, Office of the Vice President for Research, Center for Cognitive Science
1993-1998, Associate Attending Staff, Ohio State University, Office of Health Sciences, Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute
1993-1998, Associate Professor, Center Faculty, Ohio State University, Office of the Vice President for Research, Center for Cognitive Science
1990-1998, Associate Professor, Ohio State University, College of Engineering, Computer & Information Science
1990-1998, Associate Professor; Director, Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health, Pathology, Medical Informatics
1988-1990, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, College of Engineering, Computer & Information Science
1987-1990, Assistant Professor (tenured) and Associate Director, Clinical Chemistry; Director, Laboratory for Knowledge-Based Medical Systems, Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health, Pathology
1981-1987, Instructor and Associate Director, Clinical Chemistry; Chief, Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health, Pathology, Laboratory Data Processing
1980-1981, Resident, Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health, Pathology, Clinical Pathology
1980-1985, Post-doctoral Fellow, Ohio State University, National Library of Medicine, Training Grant in Biomedical Computing
1978-1981, Resident, Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health, Pathology, Clinical Pathology
1977-1998, Adjunct Instructor, Ohio State University, Allied Medical Professions
1977-1980, Research Associate, Ohio State University, National Library of Medicine, Training Grant in Biomedical Computing
1976-1977, Trainee, University of Alabama at Birmingham, National Library of Medicine Biomedical Computing, Biophysical Sciences

Funding Received

  • NCI: Colorectal Cancer Screening and the NetLET Intervention, $12,833, Sep 1, 2001 to Aug 31, 2003.
  • Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board: BabyCam, $113,890, May 31, 1999 to Apr 30, 2001.
  • NASA-AMES: Human-Centered Intelligent Flight Surgeon Console, $357,886, Mar 1, 2001 to Feb 28, 2004.
  • University of Texas Medical Branch: Utilizing CASE (Computer Assisted System Engineering) Tool for Telemedicine, Contract Analysis to Evaluate 'System Architech 2001' Software, $18,497, Jun 1, 1999 to Dec 1, 2000.
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Toward an Autonomous Robotics for Space Medicine, $60,000, Jan 1, 2001 to Dec 1, 2003.
  • University of Texas Medical Branch: Telemedicine Coordinator for Project in the Use of Telemedicine in the Evaluation of Eye Disease and Diabetic Retinopathy, $600,000, Jan 1, 2000 to Dec 1, 2000.
  • Keck via NLM: Medical Informatics Research Training Grant, $10,165, Feb 15, 2001 to Feb 14, 2002.
  • Keck Center for Computational & Structural Biology: A Dynamic Lens Model of Diagnostic Judgment, $20,000, Feb 1, 2003 to Jan 31, 2004.
  • Gulf Coast Consortium: Collaborative Activity Seed Grant, $10,000, 2008 to 2009.
  • AHRQ: AHRQ Training Program in Patient Safety and Quality, $260,000, 2008 to 2013.
  • USA Medical Reswearch Acquisition Activity: TexShield: Texas Science, Humanitarian Intervention, Education and Leadership in Disaster, $1,161,221.53, 2007 to 2008.
  • NLM: NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics, $6,944,572, 2007 to 2012.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA), $5,399.293, 2006 to 2011.
  • NASA: Human-centered intelligent flight surgeon console- Evaluation, Refinement and Deployment, $109,340, 2004 to 2005.
  • Keck Center for Computational & Structural Biology: A Dynamic Lens Model of Diagnostic Judgement, $40,000, 2003 to 2004.

Publications

  • Zhang, J., Patel, V.L., Johnson, K.A., Malin, J., Smith, J.W, Designing Human-Centered Distributed Information Systems, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 17(5), 42-47, 2002
  • Svirbely, J.R., Smith, J.W., and Speicher, C.E., (eds) Snyder, Jr and Wilkinson, D, Computers and Laboratory Information Systems, Management in Labortory Medicine, 299-314, 1997
  • Smith, J.W., Bayazitoglu, A., Johnson, T.R., Johnson, K.A., Amra, N.K, One Framework, Two Systems: Flexible Abductive Methods in the Problems-Space Paradigm Applied to Anitbody Identification and Biopsy Interpretation, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 7, 201-225, 1995
  • Simon, S.R., Smith, P.J., Smith, J.W., Nippa, J.C., Johnson, K.A., Stern, L.S., and Sriram, M.G., (eds) Harris, Gerald F. and Smith, P.A, Applications of Intelligent Multi-Media Technology in Human Motion Analysis, MD Human Motion Analysis: Current Applications and Future Directions, 1995
  • Chandrasekaran, B., Johnson, T., and Smith, J., (ed), Cuena, J, Task-Structure Analysis for Knowledge Modeling, Knowledge Oriented Software Design (A-27), 3-21, 1993
  • Smith, J.W., Johnson, T.R, A Stratified Approach to Specifying, Designing, and Building Knowledge Systems, IEEE Expert, 8(3), 15-25, 1993

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