Clement McDonald Resume (2010)
From Rutgers Medical Informatics History Project
Resume Information: (2010)
Title: Director Emeritus and Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Regenstrief
Professor Emeritus of Medical Informatics and Distinguished Professor Emeritus
of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
Current Activities
Previous Employment
2006 - Present Director, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library
of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2006 - Present Scientific Director, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
1997 - 2006 Director, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
1993 - 1997 Co-Director, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1989 - 1998 Associate Administrator, Wishard Memorial Hospital
1972 - Present Medical staff, Wishard Memorial Hospital
1976 - 2006 Chief, Computer Science Research Group, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care,
Indianapolis, Indiana
1976 - 1993 Medical staff, Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Clinical and Academic Positions
Professional Activies
2010 - Present Member, NIH Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR) Global Rare Disease Registry
(GRDR) Workgroup, Common Data Elements (CDE) Steering Committee
2010 - Present Member, CDC Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) Standards Working group
2010 - Present Member, HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborn and
Children (SACHDNC) Health Information Technology Workgroup (HIT WG)
2009 - Present Member, HHS Health Information Technology (HIT) Standards Committee Task Force
on Vocabulary
2009 - Present Member, Healthcare Informatics Advisory Board, FNIH/FDA Observational Medical
Outcomes Partnership (OMOP)
2008 - Present Member, NIH Clinical And Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Informatics Key
Function Committee (IKFC) Directors and Group Leads
2007 - Present Member, Trans-NIH Biomedical Informatics Coordinating Committee (BMIC)
2007 - Present Member, NIH Clinical Center Clinical Research Information System (CRIS) Steering
Committee
2006 - 2006 Regent, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
2005 - 2005 Member, Joint Commission\342\200\231s Health Information Technology Advisory Panel (HITAP)
2005 - 2005 Member, NCQA\342\200\231s Research Advisory Council (RAC)
2004 - 2005 Member, American Medical Association (AMA) E-Medicine Advisory Committee (EMAC)
2003 - 2008 Regent, American College of Physicians (ACP)
2003 - 2006 Member, Annals of Internal Medicine\342\200\231s Editorial Board
2002 - 2003 Member, Board of Directors, Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
(CDISC)
2001 - 2002 Member, Indiana University Cancer Center
2001 - 2003 Member, Board of Directors, Institute for Medical Knowledge Implementation (IMKI)
2000 - 2003 Committee Member, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Pursuing Perfection: Raising
The Bar For Healthcare Performance Grant
2000 - 2002 Co-Chair HL7, HIPAA Attachment Sig
1996 - 2004 Member, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
1996 - 1997 Member, The Koop Foundation's Action Team and Leadership Council
1995 - 1997 Member, American Medical Association's Education Advisory Committee
1995 - 1999 Member, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Commission on
Nomenclature, Properties and Units (VII.C.1)
1995 - 1997 Member, Joint Commission Council on Performance Measurement
1995 - 1998 Member, VHA (Volunteer Hospital Association) Information Executive Council
1995 - 1996 Member, HCFA ICD-10-PCS Advisory Panel
1994 - Present Chairman, LOINC Committee
1994 - Present Member, Association of American Physicians
1994 - 1996 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Health Data Management
1994 - 1996 Member, European Committee for Standardization (CEN) TC251 WG3 (Healthcare
Communications and Messages) PT3-022 Request and Report Messages for Diagnostic Service Departments
1994 - 1996 Chairman, Advisory Panel for the Information Technology and Health Care System, for
the Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congress
1992 - 1995 Chairman, American National Standards Institute (ANSI), Health Information Standards
Planning Panel (HISPP)
1992 - 1995 Chairman, American National Standards Institute (ANSI), Message Standards
Developers Subcommittee (MSDS)
1991 - 1997 Member, Board of Directors, InterStudy, Excelsior, Minnesota
1992 - 1993 President, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
1990 - 1993 Member, Dept. of Defense Peer Review Group, BATTELLE Corporation Health Care
Systems
1990 - 1992 Member of the Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines, Institute of Medicine
1989 - 1990 Chairman, American College of Physicians, Medical Informatics Subcommittee
1989 - 1990 Member, American College of Physicians, Educational Policy Subcommittee
1989 - 2000 Associate Editor, M.D. Computing, a Springer-Verlag International Journal
1987 - 2003 Co-Chairman, Founding Chairman, Health Level-Seven, Orders/Observations Technical
Committee
1985 - 1996 Chairman, ASTM E-31.11 Subcommittee for Developing Standards for Electronic
Transmission of Clinical Data
1985 - 1988 Secretary, Executive Board, Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care
1984 - 1986 Member, Executive Board, American College of Medical Informatics
1983 - 1989 Founding Editor, M.D. Computing, a Springer-Verlag International Journal
1977 - 1981 Member, Technology Study Section, National Center for Health Services Research
Education
1970 - 1972 Resident, Internal Medicine, Cook County Hospital and University of Wisconsin
1968 - 1970 Fellow, National Institutes of Health. Managed development of the first clinical
laboratory computer system at the clinical center in Bethesda, M.D.
1967 - 1968 M.S., Northwestern University, Biomedical Engineering. Focus on computers and
mathematics. Thesis: Computer Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen by Computer Pattern
Recognition Methods
1965 - 1966 Intern, Internal Medicine, Boston City Hospital, Harvard M\
edical Service
1964 - 1965 M.D., University of Illinois. First in class rank.
1958 - 1961 B.S., University of Notre Dame. Cum laude. Completed 132 s\
emester-hour degree in
three years
Publications
A Randomized Trial of ''Corollary Orders'' to Prevent Errors of Omission
McDonald, CJ (2006).
Computerization can create safety hazards: a bar-coding near miss, 2006
A Comparison of Intelligent Mapper and Document Similarity Scores for Mapping L\
ocal Radiology Terms to LOINC, 2005
The Indiana network for patient care: a working local health information infras\
tructure, 2005.
Automated Mapping of Local Radiology Terms to LOINC, 2004
Real world performance of approximate string comparators for use in patient mat\
ching, 2003
Analysis of a probabilistic record linkage technique without human review, 2002
Analysis of identifier performance using a deterministic linkage algorithm, 199\
9
The Regenstrief Medical Record System: a quarter century experience.
The Barriers to Electronic Medical Record Systems and How to Overcome Them, 199\
7
LOINC, a Universal Standard for Identifying Laboratory Observations: A 5-Year U\
pdate, 2003
Interesting Stuff
He developed one of the first electronic medical record systems (in
1973), which now carries 200 million clinical observations and is at
use in a number of hospitals. He was the principal investigator for
he Indianapolis Network for Patient Care (INPC), an electronic
medical record network that ties the emergency rooms of all major
Indianapolis hospitals to assist the delivery of emergency
care. Dr. McDonald led the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and
Codes (LOINC) project that is developing universal codes and names for
laboratory and clinical observations and the Indiana
University/University of Pittsburgh consortium SPIN grant
proposal. Indianapolis Pathology Informatics Network
He initiated the development of a major medical message standard
(HL7), and is the chair of the Logical Observation Identifier Names
and Codes (LOINC) committee that has created a database of universal
codes for clinicalobservations, including laboratory tests, clinical
measurements and reporting.
He was a founding board member and past president of the American
Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and served a seven-year term on
the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. He is a
recipient of AMIA's Morris Collen Award and President's Award. He is a
regent of the American College of Physicians and was elected to the
National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine.
Awards
2010 NIH Directors\342\200\231 Award
2009 Indiana Univesity President\342\200\231s Medal for Excellence
2006 Glenn W. Irwin, Jr., M.D. Research Scholar Award
2005 Honoree, Hoosier Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award 2\
005
2004 Morris Collen Award, MedInfo 2004, American Medical In\
formatics Association
2003 Indiana Business Journal Health Care Heroes Award
2002 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Presid\
ents\342\200\231 Award
2002 Who\342\200\231s Who in Health Care, Indianapolis Busi\
ness Journal
2002 Association of Medical Directors of Information System\
s, AM.D.IS Achievement
Award
2001 Outstanding Researcher Award, GIM/Geriatrics Division\
Awards for 2001,
Indiana University School of Medicine \
2000 Hickam Award, Annual Mid-West SGIM Meeting
1994 - Present Member, National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine\
1994 - Present Member, Council of the Association of American Physicians
1993 American Health Informatics Management Association, D\
istinguished Service Award
1993 Blue & Company/Hudson Institute, Horizon Award
1993 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological\
Engineering
1992 Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Indiana Universi\
ty
1991 Computers in Health Care, Pioneer Award
1991 Hospital Information Management Systems Society, Awar\
d for Outstanding
Achievement
1984 Fellow, American College of Physicians
1988 Founding Fellow, American Medical Informatics Associa\
tion
