Dr. Collen Curriculum Vitae (1986)

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Curriculum Vitae (1986) 


Consultant, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care
Program, 3451 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA 9461 1, (4 15) 428-5688.
Home: 4155 Walnut Blvd., Walnut Creek, CA 94596, (415) 935-5451.


Birth Date: November 12, 1913. Place: St. Paul, Minnesota.
citizenship: USA.


Education: Los Angelas County Hospital - residency, internal medicine
1940-42. Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago - medical internship - 1938-
40. Univ. of Minnesota: M.D., 1939; M.B. (with distinction), 1938;
B.E.E. (elec. engin.), 1934.

Organization Appointments:
Permanente Medical Group : Consultant, Division of Research 1983 ---;
Director, Division of Technology Assessment 1979-83; Director,
Medical Methods Research 1961-79; Chairman, Executive Committee
1949-73; Medical Director, West Bay Division 1953-79; Member,

Executive Committee 1948-79.
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute: Director, Medical Methods Research
1968-79
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals: Chief, Medical Service, Oakland 1942-52;
Medical Director, Oakland 1952-53; Chief of Staff, San Francisco 1953-61

Other Appointments :
Scholar-in-Residence, National Library of Medicine, 1987
Fellow, Stanford Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1985-86.
Member, Board of Scientific Counselors, Natfl Library Med., 1984-87; Chair,
1985-87
Member, Information Panel, Institute of Medicine (IOM) Council on Health
Care Technology, 1986-87.
Member, DOD-TRIMIS Peer Review Advisory Group, 1978 -.
Member, Med. Tech. Advisory Panel, U.S. Congress Office of Technology
Assessment, 1980-85.
Member, IOM-NAS Committee to Evaluate Medical Technologies in Clinical Use,
1981-85.
Member, Organizing Committee, MEDINFO '86, Washington, D.C., 1984-86.
Program Chairman, MEDINFO '80 Tokyo; AAMSI Congresses '82-84, San Francisco.
Member, NASA Workshop on Space Shuttle Studies, 1980.
Member, Advisory Group, US.  Congress Natfl Commission on Digestive
Diseases, 1977-78.

Member, NAS-NAE-IOM Committee on Technology in Health Care, 1977.
Member, Steering Group for Prevention, Control & Education, Lung
Disease, N.H.L.I., 1975.
Member, NAS Advisory Sub-Committee, Computers and Bioengineering,
1972-73.
Workshop Chairman, President's Advisory Council on Management
Improvement, 1973.
Member, President's O.S.T. Ad Xoc Panel on Prevention and Personal
Health Care, 1971.
Director, Health Services Res. Center, 1969-73 (grant from .HEW-NCHSRiD).
Sub-committee Chairman, Quality Guidelines for AMHT, HEW-NCHSRDLD, 1969.
Member, Jt. Com. Hosp. Accred., Int. Med. Adv. Com., 1968-72.
Consultant, U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), HEW, 1965-76.
Chairman, Health Care Systems Study Section, HEW, 1968-72.
Member, Advisory Committee on Demonstration Grants, HEW, 1966-68.
Consultant, W.H.O. Regional Office for Europe, 1968-72; PAHO, 1970.
Member: Aeromed. Task Force, U.S. Ai r  Force, 1968; V.A. Data
Management Adv. Com., 1968.
Member, HEW Secy's Workshop on Development of New Tech. Systems in
Health Services, 1966.


Professiona1 Honors, Societies and Activities
Member, Inst. of Med. (1OM)-Natll Acad. of Sci. (NAS), 1971.
Distinguished Practitioner, Natll Acad. of Practice in Med., 1983.
Alpha Omega Alpha (Medical honorary society); Tau Beta Pi (Engineering
honorary society).
Diplomate, American Board of Icternal Medicine (19G6).
Fellow: American College for Medical Informatics (ACMI) (1984);
American College of Cardiology ( 1958); American College of Chest Phys.
(ACCP) (1958) ; American College of Phys. (ACP) (1957).
Chair, Natll Acad. Pract. i n Med., 1983-88; Pres. ACMI, 1987-88; Pres.
AAMSI, 1984; Pres. SAMS, 1973; V.P. Salutis Unitas, 1970-81;
Vice Chair Com. Biomed. Eng., AACP, 1967-69.
Member: Am. Assn. of Med. Sys. 8 Inform. (AAMSI); Am. Med. Assn.;
Calif. Med. Assn.; Internatll Health Evaluation Assn.; GHAA Med. Dir.
Div.; Who's Who in America, in the West, in the World; American Men and
Women in Science.
Johns Hopkins University Centennial Scholar, 1976.
Lecturer: School of Pub. Health, UC-Berkeley 1965-79; Med. Information
Sci., UC-SF 1979-86; Stanford Med. School 1984-86.
Member, Editorial Boards of: J. Med. Systems, Methods, Inform. Med.,
J. Health Care Technology, Computers in Biomedical Research.
Editor, Permanente Foundation Medical Bulletin, 1943-53.
Author of 165 scientific articles and four books (on internal
medicine, preventive medicine, health services research, multiphasic 

American College of Cardiology ( 1958); American College of Chest Phys.
(ACCP) (1958) ; American College of Phys. (ACP) (1957).
Chair, Natll Acad. Pract. i n Med., 1983-88; Pres. ACMI, 1987-88; Pres.
AAMSI, 1984; Pres. SAMS, 1973; V.P. Salutis Unitas, 1970-81;
Vice Chair Com. Biomed. Eng., AACP, 1967-69.
Member: Am. Assn. of Med. Sys. 8 Inform. (AAMSI); Am. Med. Assn.;
Calif. Med. Assn.; Internatll Health Evaluation Assn.; GHAA Med. Dir.
Div.; Who's Who in America, in the West, in the World; American Men and
Women in Science.
Johns Hopkins University Centennial Scholar, 1976.
Lecturer: School of Pub. Health, UC-Berkeley 1965-79; Med. Information
Sci., UC-SF 1979-86; Stanford Med. School 1984-86.
Member, Editorial Boards of: J. Med. Systems, Methods, Inform. Med.,
J. Health Care Technology, Computers in Biomedical Research.
Editor, Permanente Foundation Medical Bulletin, 1943-53.
Author of 165 scientific articles and four books (on internal
medicine, preventive medicine, health services research, multiphasic      
testing, technology assessment and medical informatics).
Invited lecturer, speaker, discussant, or session chairman on occasions.
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