Robert A. Greenes

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Robert A. Greenes (b. 1940) is a pioneer in the field of biomedical informatics (BMI). His work has focused on knowledge representation, decision support, and human-computer interaction for health and healthcare. He was co-developer of the MUMPS System and Language in the 1960s. He is an Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University.

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Career

Greenes’ early professional career during the 1960s overlapped with his medical school and doctoral training. While a medical student, he developed software and carried out statistical computing, for researchers at MGH, and neuroelectric signal analysis for scientists studying the visual system in monkeys. He also built one of the first geographic visualization systems for health services research.

Greenes joined the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) at MGH in 1965. The LCS was directed by G. Octo Barnett, M.D., established under a subcontract to MGH from the Hospital Computer Project, a National Institutes of Health-supported grant to Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc. [1]

In 1966, for a research honors thesis for his M.D. degree, Greenes developed a software platform for interactive discourse design. Further pursuing the interest in facilitating the human-computer interface, Greenes then worked with Neil Pappalardo and Curt Marble, two engineers in the LCS, along with Barnett, to develop a prototype of a minicomputer-based time-sharing system called MUMPS, for healthcare applications that included an interactive, interpretive programming language.

Greenes used MUMPS as a platform for his Ph.D. thesis on computer-based interactive capture of progress notes by clinicians. This work, carried out using a home-grown touchscreen computer, led to further investigation into the physician-computer interface for both progress notes and radiology reports, and to work on capture and generation of ultrasound reports in the 1980s-90s, and later to modeling of cognitive processes, to anticipate physician-patient interaction, provider workflow, decision-making needs, and potential clinical actions.

Following a 1970-78 interlude in the commercial world, a year at Stanford, and radiology residency at MGH, Greenes joined the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) as a practicing radiologist in 1978. Shortly thereafter, he established the Decision Systems Group as a BMI research and development laboratory, which he directed for 27 years and which, at its peak, consisted of over 30 faculty, staff, and doctoral and postdoctoral fellows. [2] Greenes was professor of radiology and of health sciences and technology (HST), at Harvard Medical School. He was also professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health. In 2005 he became the Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Informatics at BWH. [2]

From 1985 to 2007, Greenes directed the Harvard-based Biomedical Informatics Research Training (BIRT) program, with support from the National Library of Medicine and other sources. [3]

After 40 years at Harvard and its affiliate hospitals, Greenes moved to Phoenix, AZ in 2007 to lead a new Department of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University (ASU), where he became the Ira A. Fulton Chair and Professor of Biomedical Informatics. [4] He was also professor of biomedical informatics at Mayo Clinic. During the period at ASU (2007–2020), he continued his work on knowledge-enhanced care, directing collaboration initiatives on a platform for deploying interoperable healthcare apps. [5]

In August 2020, he became emeritus Professor, and is now living in San Diego, where he is a Visiting Scholar, at the University of California San Diego Health System and continues to engage in various projects. [6]

Awards and honors

Greenes won the Borden Research Prize from Harvard for his medical school thesis on computer-based interactive discourse design. Greenes is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, [7] Distinguished Fellow [8] and 2008 Morris F. Collen Award Recipient in the American College of Medical Informatics, [9] [10] and Fellow of the American College of Radiology [11] and Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine. [12] The Distinguished Robert Greenes Chair of Biomedical Informatics was established at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2005 in his honor. [13] The current incumbent is CF Westin. [14]

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  3. ↑ "Better-connected health care". ASU News.
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  5. ↑ "ASU, Mayo Clinic enhance collaboration with formal commitment". ASU News.
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  7. ↑ "National Academy of Medicine". Arizona State University.
  8. ↑ "4 Named Distinguished Fellows of the American College of Medical Informatics | AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association". AMIA.
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  11. ↑ https://www.acr.org/-/media/ACR/Files/Member-Resources/AllFACRList.pdf
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