William Stead

From Rutgers Medical Informatics History Project

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.

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