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Name: William W. Stead, MD

Elected ACMI Fellow: 1984, Morris Collen Award, 2007

Birthdate:

Degrees: MD Duke, 1973

Current Position: Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Vanderbilt University; Chief Strategy and Information Officer at Vanderbilt Medical Center; Chief Information Architect, Vanderbilt; Director, Informatics Center, Vanderbilt

Current email: William.W.Stead@vanderbilt.edu

Professional Affiliations:

Professional Activities: Chairman, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health; William and Janet Stead Lecture, AMIA

Honors and Awards: Founding Fellow American Institute for Engineering in Biology and Medicine; member IOM, ACCA; Lindberg Award, 2005; Computers in Healthcare - Healthcare Pioneer Award, 1991; American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Founding Fellow 1992; American Medical Informatics Association President’s Award 1997; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Elected 2000

Other Works:

Other Information:

Curriculum Vitae:


Selected Publications: 

Stead WW, Searle JR, Fessler HE, Smith JW, Shortliffe EH. Biomedical
informatics: changing what physicians need to know and how they learn. Acad Med.
2011 Apr;86(4):429-34.

Rosenbloom ST, Denny JC, Xu H, Lorenzi N, Stead WW, Johnson KB. Data from
clinical notes: a perspective on the tension between structure and flexible
documentation. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Mar-Apr;18(2):181-6. Epub 2011 Jan 12.

Stead WW, Gregg WM, Jirjis JN. Extending closed-loop control to the management
of chronic disease. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 2011;122:93-102.

Miller BM, Moore DE Jr, Stead WW, Balser JR. Beyond Flexner: a new model for
continuous learning in the health professions. Acad Med. 2010 Feb;85(2):266-72.

Rosenbloom ST, Stead WW, Denny JC, Giuse D, Lorenzi NM, Brown SH, Johnson KB. 
Generating Clinical Notes for Electronic Health Record Systems. Appl Clin Inform.
2010 Jan 1;1(3):232-243.

Stead WW. Electronic health records. Stud Health Technol Inform.
2010;153:119-43.

Masys DR, Ellison D, Stead WW. Presentation of the 2007 Morris F. Collen award
to William W. Stead, MD, including comments from recipient. J Am Med Inform
Assoc. 2008 May-Jun;15(3):302-6. Epub 2008 Feb 28.

Stead WW, Patel NR, Starmer JM. Closing the loop in practice to assure the
desired performance. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 2008;119:185-94; discussion
194-5.

Stead WW. Rethinking electronic health records to better achieve quality and
safety goals. Annu Rev Med. 2007;58:35-47. Review.

Rosenbloom ST, Geissbuhler AJ, Dupont WD, Giuse DA, Talbert DA, Tierney WM,
Plummer WD, Stead WW, Miller RA. Effect of CPOE user interface design on
user-initiated access to educational and patient information during clinical
care. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005 Jul-Aug;12(4):458-73. Epub 2005 Mar 31.

Stead WW, Kelly BJ, Kolodner RM. Achievable steps toward building a National 
Health Information infrastructure in the United States. J Am Med Inform Assoc.
2005 Mar-Apr;12(2):113-20. Epub 2004 Nov 23.

Stead WW. Presentation of the Morris F Collen Award to William Edward Hammond
II, PhD. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004 May-Jun;11(3):221-4.

Dillaha JA, Yang Z, Ijaz K, Eisenach KD, Cave MD, Wilson FJ, Stead WW, Bates 
JH. Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a rural community, Arkansas,
1945-2000. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002 Nov;8(11):1246-8.

tead WW. Case Study: Insights from Vanderbilt’s journey toward
system-supported practice. Institute of Medicine (IOM)/National
Academy of Engineering (NAE). 2008. Systems Engineering to Improve
Traumatic Brain Injury Care in the Military Health System Workshop
Summary, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, pp. 53-62.

Stead WW. Health Care Culture in the United States. IOM Workshop:
Engineering a Learning Healthcare System 2008, Washington, DC: The
National Academies Press (In press).

Stead WW, Patel N, Starmer JM. Closing the Loop in Practice to Assure
the Desired Performance. Trans Am Clin Climatol Association 2008;
119:185-195.

Stead WW, Starmer JM. Beyond Expert-based Practice. Institute of
Medicine (IOM) 2008. Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature
of Health Care: 2007 Annual Meeting Summary, Washington, DC: The
National Academies Press, pp. 94-105.

Stead WW. Clinicians and the Electronic Health Record as a Learning
Tool. Institute of Medicine (IOM). 2007. The Learning Healthcare
System: Workshop Summary, Roundtable on Evidence-based Medicine,
Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, pp. 268-274.

Stead WW. Rethinking Electronic Health Records to Better Achieve
Quality and Safety Goals. Annu Rev Med 2007, 58:14.1-14.13.

Rosenbloom ST, Geissbuhler AJ, Dupont WD, Giuse DA, Talbert DA,
Tierney WM, Plummer WD, Stead WW, Miller RA. Effect of CPOE User
Interface Design on User-Initiated Access to Educational and Patient
Information During Clinical Care. Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association, 12:458-469, 2005.

Stead WW, Kelly BJ, Kolodner RM. Achievable Steps toward Building a
National Health Information Infrastructure. Journal of the American
Medical Informatics Association 12:113-120, 2005

Stead WW, Miller RA, Musen MA, Hersh WR. Integration and Beyond:
Linking Information from Disparate Sources and into Workflow. Journal
of the American Medical Informatics Association 7:135-145, 2000.

Stead WW, Lorenzi NM. Health Informatics: Linking Investment to
Value. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
6:341-348, 1999.

Stead WW. The Networked Health Enterprise: A Vision for 2008. Journal
of the American Medical Informatics Association 5:412-415, 1998.

Friedman CP, Frisse ME, Musen MA, Slack WV, Stead WW. How Should We
Organize To Do Informatics? Report of the ACMI Debate at the 1997 AMIA
Fall Symposium. Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association 5(3):293-304, 1998.

Stead WW. Positioning the Library at the Epicenter of the Networked
Biomedical Enterprise. Bull Med Libr Assoc 86(1):16-20, 1998.

Geissbuhler A, Grande JF, Bates RA, Miller RA, Stead WW. Design of a
General Clinical Notification System Based on the Publish-Subscribe
Paradigm. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
(symposium supplement):126-130, 1997.

Geissbuhler A, Miller RA, Stead WW. The Clinical Spectrum of
Decision-support in Oncology With a Case Report of a Real World
System. Lect Notes Artificial Intelligence 1211:235-238, 1997.

Stead WW, Olsen AJ, Benner SA, Blackwleder M, Cooperstock L, Paton JA,
Russell FK, Van Hine P. The IAIMS -- An Essential Infrastructure for
Increasing the Competitiveness of Health Care Practices. Journal of
the American Medical Informatics Association, Supplement 4(2):S73-S76,
1997.

Stead WW. The Evolution of the IAIMS: Lessons for the Next
Decade. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association,
Supplement 4(2):S4-S9, 1997.

Giuse NB, Huber JT, Kafantaris SR, Giuse DA Miller MD, Giles DE,
Miller RA, Stead WW. Preparing Librarians to Meet the Challengers of
Today's Health Care Environment. Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association 4(1):57-67, 1997.

Giuse NB, Huber JT, Giuse DA, Kafantaris SR, Stead WW. Integrating
Health Sciences Librarians into Biomedicine. Bull Med Libr Assoc
84(4):534-540, 1996.

Miller RA, Giuse DA, Giuse NB, Geissbuhler A, Apon AW, Stead
WW. Opportunities for Training in Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt
University. Yearbook of Medical Informatics '96, 1996.

Stead WW, Borden R, Bourne J, Giuse D, Giuse N, Harris TR, Miller RA,
Olsen AJ. The Vanderbilt University Fast Track to IAIMS: Transition
from Planning to Implementation. Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association 3(5):308-317, 1996.

Olsen AJ, Stead WW. Strategic Planning for Information Management:
What are the Deliverables? Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association (symposium supplement):785-789, 1995.

Stead WW, Sittig DF. Building a Data Foundation for Tomorrow's
Healthcare Information Management Systems. International Journal of
Bio-Medical Computing 39:127-131, 1995.

Sittig DF, Stead WW. Computer-based Physician Order Entry: The State
of the Art. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
1(2):108-123, 1994.

Stead WW, Haynes RB, Fuller S, Friedman CP, Travis LE, Beck JR,
Fenichel CH, Chandrasekaren B, Buchanan BG, Abola EE, Sievert MC,
Gardner RM, Messerle J, Jaffe CC, Pearson WR, Abarbanel RM. Designing
Medical Informatics Research and Library Resource Projects to Increase
What is Learned. Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association 1(1):28-33, 1994.

Ackerman MJ, Ball MJ, Clayton PD, Frisse ME, Gardner RM, Greenes RA,
Hammond WE, Kingsland LC, McDonald CJ, Masys DR, Miller PL, Miller RA,
Mitchell JA, Ozbolt JG, Stead WW. Standards for Medical Identifiers,
Codes, and Messages Needed to Create an Efficient Computer-stored
Medical Record. Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association 1(1):1-7, 1994.

Olsen AJ, Baker WL, Sittig DF, Stead WW. A Planning Process for a Fast
Track to IAIMS. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Symposium on
Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Safran, C., New York,
New York, McGraw Hill, pp. 544-548, 1993.

Stead WW, Borden RB, McNulty P, Sittig DF. Building an Information
Management Infrastructure in the 90s: The Vanderbilt
Experiment. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Symposium on
Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Safran, C., New York,
New York, McGraw Hill, pp. 534-538, 1993.

Stead WW, Bird WP, Califf RM, Elchlepp JG, Hammond WE, Kinney TR. The
IAIMS at Duke University Medical Center: Transition from Model Testing
to Implementation. MD Computing 10(4):225-230, 1993.

Stead WW, Baker W, Harris TR, Hodges TM, Sittig DF. A Fast Track to
IAIMS: The Vanderbilt University Strategy. Proceedings of the
Sixteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care,
edited by Frisse, M., New York, New York, McGraw Hill, pp. 527-531,
1992.

Hage ML, Helms MJ, Dudley A, Stead WW, Hammond WE, Neyland C, Hammond
CB. Acute Childbirth Morbidity: Its Measurement Using Hospital
Charges. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
166(6):1853-1862, 1992.

Grewal R, Arcus J, Bowen J, Fitzpatrick K, Hammond WE, Hickey L, Stead
WW. Bedside Computerization of the ICU, Design Issues: Benefits of
Computerization Versus Ease of Paper & Pen. Proceedings Fifteenth
Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Clayton,
P.D., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, pp. 793-797, 1991.

Stead WW, Borden RB, Boyarsky MW, Crow DS, Mears TP, Stone AA, Woods
PJ. A System's Architecture Which Dissociates Management of Shared
Data and End-User Function. Proceedings Fifteenth Symposium on
Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Clayton, P.D., New
York, New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
pp. 475-480, 1991.

Hammond WE, Stead WW. Adopting TMR for Physician/Nurse
Use. Proceedings Fifteenth Symposium on Computer Applications in
Medical Care, edited by Clayton, P.D., New York, New York, Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 833-837, 1991.

Stead WW, Roderer N, Zimmerman JL. Successful Principles for
Collaboration: Formation of the IAIMS Consortium. Academic Medicine
66(4):196-201, 1991.

Stead WW. Systems for the Year 2000: The Case for an Integrated
Database. MD Computing 8(2):103-110, 1991.

Andreshak JC, Lumelsky S, Chang IF, Mears TP, Stone AA, Stead
WW. Medication Charting Via Computer Gesture Recognition. Proceedings
Fourteenth Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited
by Miller, R.A., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, pp. 865-869, 1990.

Hammond JE, Hammond WE, Stead WW. Information Management through
Integration of Distributed Resources: The TMR-NLM Connection a
Prototype. Proceedings Fourteenth Symposium on Computer Applications
in Medical Care, edited by Miller, R.A., New York, New York, Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 719-723, 1990.

Rabold JS, Baysden GS, Blunden PS, Califf RM, Fang WC, Hammond WE,
Pryor DB, Stead WW. The Practice Management Workstation: Providing
Incentive Across Subgroups of Users. Proceedings Fourteenth Symposium
on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Miller, R.A., New
York, New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
pp. 760-763, 1990.

Hammond WE, Straube MJ, Stead WW. The Synchronization of Distributed
Databases. Proceedings Fourteenth Symposium on Computer Applications
in Medical Care, edited by Miller, R.A., New York, New York, Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 345-349, 1990.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. TMR - The Medical Record: Spanning the Spectrum
of Patient Care. Proceedings Thirteenth Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, edited by Kingsland, L.C., New York, New
York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 937-938,
1989.

Hammond WE, Straube MJ, Blunden PB, Stead WW. Query: The Language of
Databases. Proceedings Thirteenth Symposium on Computer Applications
in Medical Care, edited by Kingsland, L.C., New York, New York,
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 419-423, 1989.

Magid AD, Reilly C, Bonney WK, Babb J, Winakur E, Stead WW. Building a
Physiological Simulation Toolkit for Medical Education. Proceedings
Thirteenth Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited
by Kingsland, L.C., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, pp. 898-901, 1989.

Boyarsky MW, Schneider DE, Lindbloom H, Pickett MP, Schneider KA,
Stead WW. Towards an Integrated Laboratory Information
System. Proceedings Thirteenth Symposium on Computer Applications in
Medical Care edited by Kingsland, L.C., New York, New York, Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 654-658, 1989.

Stead WW, Bird WP, Carter R, Elchlepp JG, Hammond WE, Kootsey JM,
Smith PK. IAIMS - The Role of Strategic Planning. Proceedings
Thirteenth Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited
by Kingsland, L.C., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, pp. 345-349, 1989.

Hammond WE, Grewal R, Straube MJ, Stead WW. Networking Data Sources
for Intensive Care Monitoring. Proceedings AAMSI Congress 1989, edited
by Hammond, W.E., Washington, DC, American Association for Medical
Systems and Informatics, pp. 277-281, 1989.

Stead WW. Building an HIS for the Year 2000: An Agenda for the
90's. Proceedings AAMSI Congress 1989, edited by Hammond, W.E.,
Washington, DC, American Association for Medical Systems and
Informatics, pp. 8-16, 1989.

Stead WW. A Quarter Century of Computer-based Medical Records. MD
Computing 6(2):74-81, 1989.

Brazy PC, Stead WW, Fitzwilliam JF. Progression of Renal
Insufficiency: Role of Blood Pressure. Kidney International
35:670-674, 1989.

Miller RA, Patil R, Mitchell J, Friedman C, Stead WW, Blois MS,
Anderson RK. Preparing a Medical Informatics Research Grant Proposal:
General Principles. Computers & Biomedical Research 22:92-101, 1989.

agid AD, Rabold JS, Stead WW. Computer Literacy in a First-Year
Medical School Class. Proceedings Twelfth Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, edited by Greenes, R.A., New York, New
York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 888-892,
1988.

Dryfoos JD, Hammond WE, Spero LA, Rabold JS, Straube MJ, Stead
WW. Duke Electronic Mail Post Office: A Practical Mail Linking
System. Proceedings Twelfth Symposium on Computer Applications in
Medical Care, edited by Greenes, R.A., New York, New York, Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 562-567, 1988.

Rabold JS, Magid AD, Stead WW. Monitoring the Impact of Integrated
Information Management: Establishing a User Baseline. Proceedings
Twelfth Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by
Greenes, R.A., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, pp. 853-857, 1988.

Kirby JD, Walker LP, Aaron WH, Stead WW. Planning and Implementing a
Disaster Recovery Capability for a Mainframe-based Hospital
Information System: Duke University Medical Center's
Experience. Proceedings Twelfth Symposium on Computer Applications in
Medical Care, edited by Greenes, R.A., New York, New York, Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 877-881, 1988.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. Computer-based Medical Records: The Need for
Storing a Single Datum in Multiple Orientations. Proceedings Twelfth
Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Greenes,
R.A., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, pp. 625-629, 1988.

Hammond WE, Stead WW. TMR - Future Directions. Proceedings of the
IFIP-IMIA Working Conference, edited by Bakker, A.R., Ball, M.J.,
Scherrer, J.R., Willems, J.L., North-Holland, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, pp. 97-103, 1988.

Hammond WE, Stead WW. Transportability of Software. Towards New
Hospital Information Systems. Proceedings of the IFIP-IMIA Working
Conference, edited by Bakker, A.R., Ball, M.J., Scherrer, J.R.,
Willems, J.L., North-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 293-298,
1988.

Stead WW, Pryor DB, Smith PK, Hammond WE. Hospital Information
Systems: A Clinician's Expectations. Towards New Hospital Information
Systems. Proceedings of the IFIP-IMIA Working Conference, edited by
Bakker, A.R., Ball, M.J., Scherrer, J.R.,Willems, J.L., North-Holland,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 329-335, 1988.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. Computer-based Medical Records: The Centerpiece
of TMR. MD Computing 5(5): 48-62, 1988.

Straube MJ, Hammond WE, Stead WW. Realtime Information Exchange
Between Heterogeneous Database Systems: Design Strategy and Lessons
Learned During Implementation. Proceedings AAMSI Congress 1988, edited
by Hammond, W.E., Washington, DC, American Association for Medical
Systems and Informatics, pp. 202-211, 1988.

Pickett MP, Laco RJ, Stead WW. Developing Common Data Definitions for
Distributed Systems. Proceedings AAMSI Congress 1988, edited by
Hammond, W.E., Washington, DC, American Association for Medical
Systems and Informatics, pp. 212-216, 1988.

Stead WW. Computer-Based Medical Records: Lessons from the First
Twenty-Five Years. Proceedings AAMSI Congress 1988, edited by Hammond,
W.E., Washington, DC, American Association for Medical Systems and
Informatics, pp. 46-54, 1988.

Stead WW. Information Management through Integration of Distributed
Resources. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 76(3):242-247,
1988.

Hammond WE, Stead WW. TMR - The Medical Record. Demonstrations Digest
Eleventh Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by
Stead ,W.W., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, pp. 61-63, 1987.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. Demand-Oriented Medical Records: Toward a
Physician Work Station. Proceedings Eleventh Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, edited by Stead, W.W., New York, New
York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 275-280,
1987.

Hammond WE, Stead WW. TLS - The Laboratory System: A Networked Patient
Care System. Proceedings Eleventh Symposium on Computer Applications
in Medical Care, edited by Stead, W.W., New York, New York, Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 778-782, 1987.

Rabold JS, Rohlf JL, Stead WW. Design and Implementation of a Patient
Classification System - One Year Later. Proceedings Eleventh SymposiumElectrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 764-770, 1987.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. Storage Requirements for Office Practice
Systems. (Reprinted from Proceedings, Ninth Annual Symposium on
Computer Applications in Medical Care, Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, 1985) Medical Electronics 102:104-106, 1986.

Hammond WE, Stead WW. The Evolution of a Computerized Medical
Information System. Proceedings Tenth Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, edited by Orthner, H.F., New York, New
York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 147-156,
1986.

Garrett, Jr. LE, Hammond WE, Stead WW. The Effects of Computerized
Medical Records on Provider Efficiency and Quality of Care. Methods of
Information in Medicine, 25:151-157, 1986.

Stead WW. Computers in Clinical Nephrology: Database Design and
Implementation. American Kidney Foundation Nephrology Letter 3:9-14,
1986.

Dozier JA, Hammond WE, Stead WW. Creating a Link Between Medical and
Analytical Databases. Proceedings Ninth Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, edited by Ackerman, M.J., New York, New
York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 478-482,
1985.

Lutz MW, Hammond WE, Stead WW, Blunden PB, Pryor DB. An Automatic
Programming System to Create Medically-Oriented Report
Generators. Proceedings Ninth Symposium on Computer Applications in
Medical Care, edited by Ackerman, M.J., New York, New York, Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 422-426, 1985.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Straube MJ. Planned Networking for Medical
Information Systems. Proceedings Ninth Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, edited by Ackerman, M.J., New York, New
York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 727-731,
1985.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. Calculating Storage Requirements for Office
Practice Systems. Proceedings Ninth Symposium on Computer Applications
in Medical Care, edited by Ackerman, M.J., New York, New York,
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 68-71, 1985.

Stead EA, Stead WW. Computers and Medical Practice, Old Dreams and
Current Realities. MD Computing 2(6):26-31, 1985.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Straube MJ, Lutz M. TMR - Meeting the Demand for
the Variety of Report Modalities. Proceedings Eighth Symposium on
Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Cohen, G.S., New
York, New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
pp. 421-424, 1984.

Stead WW, Hammond WE, Winfree RG. Beyond a Basic HIS: Work Stations
for Department Management. Proceedings Eighth Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, edited by Cohen, G.S., New York, New
York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 97-199,
1984.

Stead WW. Using Computers to Care for Patients with Renal
Disorders. MD Computing 1(5):42-50, 1984.

Seaworth BJ, Garrett, Jr. LE, Stead WW, Hamilton JD. Non A Non B
Hepatitis and Chronic Dialysis - Another Dilemma. American Journal of
Nephrology 4:235-239, 1984.

Weigmann TB, Blumenkrantz M, Layard M, Schmidt RW, Shen F, Stead
WW. Home Dialysis and Dialysis Treatment Modalities in the VA
System. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 3:32-36, 1983.

Stead WW. Back to the Basics: Heparin. Dialysis & Transplantation
12:875-878, 1983.

Cummings AJ, Roovers TJ, Clark H, Stead WW, Ash SR. What Medical
Information Systems Can Do for Group Practice. Proceedings Seventh
Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by
Dayhoff, R.E., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, pp. 313-315, 1983.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Straube MJ, Hammond III, WE. Adapting to the Day
to Day Growth of TMR. Proceedings Seventh Annual Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, edited by Dayhoff , R.E., New York, New
York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 101-105,
1983.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. Functions Required to Allow TMR to Support the
Information Requirements of a Hospital. Proceedings Seventh Annual
Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Dayhoff,
R.E., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, pp. 106-109, 1983.

Stead WW, Garrett, Jr. LE, Hammond WE. Practicing Nephrology with a
Computerized Medical Record. Kidney International 24:446-454, 1983.

Garrett, Jr. LE, Stead WW, Hammond WE. Conversion of Manual to Total
Computerized Medical Records: Experience with Selected
Abstraction. (Reprinted from Proceedings of the Joint Conference of
the Society for Computer Medicine and the Society for Advanced Medical
Systems, 1981) Journal of Medical Systems 7:301-305, 1983.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. Computerized Medical Records - A New Resource
for Clinical Decision Making. Journal of Medical Systems 7:213-220,
1983.

Stead WW, Hammond WE, Straube MJ. A Chartless Record - Is It Adequate?
(Reprinted from Proceedings, Sixth Annual Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, 1982) Journal of Medical Systems 7:103-109, 1983.

Garrett, Jr. LE, Stead WW, Hammond WE, McDonald CJ, Buecher M. A
Method of Handling Subjective and Physical Data; Experience with Two
Systems. Proceedings Sixth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications
in Medical Care, edited by Blum, B.I., New York, New York, Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 232-235, 1982.

Esterhay, Jr. RJ, Foy JL, Lewis TL, Stead WW, Borden RB. Hospital
Information Systems: Approaches to Screen Definition: Comparative
Anatomy of the Promis, NIH, and Duke Systems. Proceedings Sixth Annual
Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Blum,
B.I., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, pp. 903-911, 1982.

Pryor DB, Stead WW, Hammond WE, Califf RM, Rosati AA. Features of TMR
for a Successful Clinical and Research Database. Proceedings Sixth
Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by
Blum, B.I., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, pp. 79-84, 1982.

Stead WW, Hammond WE, Straube MJ. A Chartless Record - Is It Adequate?
Proceedings Sixth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical
Care, edited by Blum, B.I., New York, New York, Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 89-94, 1982.

Jelovsek FR, Hammond WE, Stead WW, Deason BP, Straube MJ. Computer
Based Reports for Ambulatory Care Administrative
Management. Proceedings AMIA Congress 82, San Francisco, CA,
pp. 10-13, 1982.

Jelovsek FR, Straube MJ, Deason BP, Burkett E, Stead WW, Hammond
WE. Implementation of an Ambulatory Medical Information System on an
LSI-11 Based PDP 11/23 Microcomputer. Proceedings of the 7th West
Coast Computer Faire, pp. 174-179, 1982.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Straube MJ, Hammond III, WE. Experiences in the
Transfer of a Medical Information System from an Academic Setting to a
Private Setting. Proceedings Fifth Annual Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, edited by Heffernan, H.G., New York, New
York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 949-952,
1981.

Hammond WE, Stead WW. The Selection of Hardware and Software for
Medical Computing: Equipment and Applications Program. Proceedings of
the Joint Conference of the Society for Computer Medicine and the
Society for Advanced Medical Systems, pp. 97-98, 1981.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. The Impact of a Computerized Medical Record on
Clinical Decision Making for Nephrology Patients Proceedings of the
Joint Conference of the Society for Computer Medicine and the Society
for Advanced Medical Systems, pp. 29-30, 1981.

Garrett, Jr. LE, Stead WW, Hammond WE. Conversion of Manual to Total
Computerized Medical Records: Experience with Selected
Abstraction. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Society for
Computer Medicine and the Society for Advanced Medical Systems,
pp. 23-25, 1981.

Gutman RA, Stead WW, Robinson RR. Physical Activity and Employment
Status of Patients on Maintenance Dialysis. New England Journal of
Medicine 304:309-313, 1981.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Straube MJ, Kelly M, Winfree RG. An Interface
Between a Hospital Information System and a Computerized Medical
Record. Proceedings Fourth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications
in Medical Care, edited by O'Neil , J.T., New York, New York,
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 1537-1540, 1980.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. How to Realize Labor Savings with a Computerized
Medical Record. Proceedings Fourth Annual Symposium on Computer
Applications in Medical Care, edited by O'Neil, J.T., New York, New
York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 1200-1205,
1980.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Straube MJ, Jelovsek FR. Functional
Characteristics of a Computerized Medical Record. Methods of
Information in Medicine 19:157-162, 1980.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Straube MJ, Jelovsek FR. A Clinical Data Base
Management System. Policy and Information 4:79-86, 1980. (Reprinted
from Proceedings First International Symposium on Policy Analysis and
Information Systems, 1979.)

Stead WW, Hammond WE. The Future of Computerized Medical
Consultation. Proceedings First International Symposium on Policy
Analysis and Information Systems, pp. 402-406, 1979.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Straube MJ, Jelovsek FR. A Clinical Data Base
Management System. Proceedings First International Symposium on Policy
Analysis and Information Systems, pp. 454-461, 1979.

Dennis VW, Stead WW, Meyers JL. Renal Handling of Phosphate and
Calcium. Annual Review of Physiology 41:257-271, 1979.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Straube MJ, Collins JD. Experiences in the
Development of an Ambulatory Care Medical Information System. The 3rd
USA-Japan Computer Conference Proceedings (IEEE), pp. 452-456, 1978.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Straube MJ, Collins JD. A Medical Record System
for Ambulatory Care. Proceedings: 1978 Workshop onComputer Laboratory
Health Care Resources, pp. 203-218, 1978.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Feagin SJ, Brantley BA, Straube MJ. Data Base
Management System for Ambulatory Care. Proceedings First Annual
Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Orthner,
F.H., New York, New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, pp. 173-187, 1977.

Stead WW, Brame RG, Hammond WE, Jelovsek FR, Estes, Jr. EH, Parker
RT. A Computerized Obstetrical Record. Obstetrics and Gynecology
49:502-509, 1977.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Walter EL, Feagin SJ, Brantley BA, Estes,
Jr. EH. Transferability of Projects and Systems in Computer
Medicine. International Congress on Computing in Medicine, Med Comp
77, pp. 271-278, 1977.

Stead WW, Hammond WE, Estes, Jr. EH. Evaluation of an Audio Mode of
the Automated Medical History. Methods of Information in Medicine
16:20-23, 1977.

Hammond WE, Stead WW, Walter EL, Brantley BA, Feagin SJ. Integration
and Evaluation of Computer Technology into an Ambulatory Care
Setting. DECUS Proceedings, pp. 62-69, 1976.

Hammond WE, Walter EL, Feagin SJ, Brantley BA, Stead WW, Estes,
Jr. EH. Computers in Ambulatory Care. Clinical Medicine 82:17-21,
1975.

Hammond WE, Walter EL, Brantley BA, Feagin SJ, Stead WW. Evolution of
a Minicomputer Information System. COMPCON 75, pp. 237-239, 1975.

Brame RG, Hammond WE, Stead WW. The Computerized Obstetrical Record of
Duke University. Journal of Clinical Computing 4:107-119, 1974.
ammond WE, Brantley BA, Feagin SJ, Lloyd SC, Stead WW, Walter
EL. GEMISCH - A Minicomputer Information Support System. Proceedings
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
61:1575-1583, 1973.

Stead WW, Heyman A, Thompson HK, Hammond WE. Computer Assisted
Interview of Patients with Functional Headache. Archives of Internal
Medicine 129:950-955, 1972.

Stead WW, Hammond WE, Brame RG. Computerized Obstetrical
Records. Journal of Clinical Computing 2:5-14, 1972-1973.

Stead WW, Hammond WE. Massage of GEMISCH. DECUS Proceedings,
pp. 49-55, 1972.

Lloyd SC, Brantley BA, Hammond WE, Stead WW, Thompson, Jr. HK. A
Generalized Medical Information System (GEMISCH) for Practicing
Physicians. Proceedings of 1971 Annual Conference, Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 684-692, 1971.

Brantley BA, Hammond WE, Thompson, Jr. HK, Feagin SJ, Lloyd SC, Stead
WW. A Medical Information System. DECUS Proceedings, pp. 49-55, 1970.

on Computer Applications in Medical Care, edited by Stead, W.W., New
York, New York, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
pp. 680-686, 1987.

Kirby JD, Pickett MP, Boyarsky MW, Stead WW. Distributed Processing
with a Mainframe-based Hospital Information System: A Generalized
Solution. Proceedings Eleventh Symposium on Computer Applications in
Medical Care, edited by Stead, W.W., New York, New York, Institute of

Books 

Main title:        Computational technology for effective health care :
                      immediate steps and strategic directions / William W.
                      Stead and Herbert S. Lin, editors ; Committee on
                      Engaging the Computer Science Research Community in
                      Health Care Informatics, Computer Science and
                      Telecommunications Board, Division on Engineering and
                      Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the
                      National Academies.
Published/Created: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2009.
Related names:     Stead, William W.
                   Lin, Herbert.
                   National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Engaging the
                      Computer Science Research Community in Health Care
                      Informatics.
Description:       xvi, 103 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:              9780309130509
                   0309130506

Main title:        Tuberculosis / William W. Stead and Asim K. Dutt, guest
                      editors.
Published/Created: Philadelphia : Saunders, 1980.
Related names:     Stead, William W.
                   Dutt, Asim K.
Description:       vii p., p. 165-286 : ill. ; 27 cm.
Notes:             Includes bibliographies and index.
Subjects:          Tuberculosis.
                   Tuberculosis, Pulmonary.
Series:            Clinics in chest medicine ; v. 1, no. 2

Personal name:     Stead, William W.
Main title:        Fundamentals of tuberculosis today, for students in the
                      health professions, by William W. Stead.
Edition:           2d ed.
Published/Created: [Milwaukee, 1973]
Description:       32 p. 23 cm.
Notes:             Bibliography: p. 32.

Main title:        Understanding tuberculosis today; a handbook for patients,
                      by William W. Stead.
Edition:           3d ed. (rev.).
Published/Created: [Milwaukee, Printed at Central Press, 1973]
Description:       32 p. illus. 23 cm.
Notes:             Bibliography: p. 32.

Additional Media:
AMIA Now Lecture, "Recalibrating Informatic’s “True North”"

2009 Lecture The Challenge of Health Care - managing complexity in an adaptive system (from youtube)

2007 Lecture on Engineering Innovations in Healthcare (from youtube)

Lecture Are Personalized Medicine and System-based Care at Odds? (from youtube)

Sources:
Vanderbilt Informatics Center biography

http://www.amia.org/about-amia/faces-of-amia/william-w-stead

http://dbmi.mc.vanderbilt.edu/people/stead.html

http://informatics.mc.vanderbilt.edu/stead

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2409995/

http://ww2.icainformatics.com/about-ica/leadership/william-stead/

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