Karen Duncan

Karen Duncan
Alma mater	University of Oklahoma
Awards	2000 ACM Fellow
Scientific career
Fields	Biostatistics health informatics
Institutions	Medical University of South Carolina Mitre Corporation

Karen A. Duncan is a biostatistician and health informatics specialist, who was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2000. ^[1]

Duncan earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Oklahoma. She has worked as an associate professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, as a member of the technical staff at the Mitre Corporation, and as an independent consultant. ^[2]

Duncan is the author of the books Health Information and Health Reform: Understanding the Need for a National Health Information System (Jossey-Bass, 1994) ^[3] and Community Health Information Systems: Lessons for the Future (Health Information Press, 1998). ^[4]

References

1. ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2015-06-30: "Karen has been an outstanding researcher, writer, innovator, and leader in medical informatics, and has a sustained, outstanding record of leadership and service to the ACM and the computing community."
2. ACM Educational Board (1983), ACM Curricula Recommendations for Related Computer Science Programs in Vocational-Technical Schools, Community and Junior Colleges, and Health Computing, Vol. III, Association for Computing Machinery, Contributor biography, p. 189, ISBN   978-0-89791-119-1 .
3. Rada, Roy (May 1995), "Book Review: Health Information and Health Reform: Understanding the Need for a National Health Information System, by Karen A. Duncan. (Jossey-Bass Publishers 1994)", ACM SIGBIO Newsletter, 15 (2), New York, NY, USA: ACM: 13, doi:10.1145/216200.954566, S2CID   35408468 .
4. ACM Digital Library entry for Community Health Information Systems, retrieved 2015-06-30.