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Christopher G. CHUTE Members of the Revision Steering Group for the revision of the International Classification of Diseases Christopher G. CHUTE Chair: Revision Steering Group Dr. Chute received his undergraduate and medical training at Brown University, internal medicine residency at Dartmouth, and doctoral training in Epidemiology at Harvard. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Epidemiology, and the American College of Medical Informatics. He became founding Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo in 1988, stepping down after 20 years in that role. He is now Professor of Medical Informatics, and is PI on a large portfolio of research including the LexGrid projects, Mayo’s CTSA Informatics, Mayo’s Cancer Center Informatics including caBIG, and several NIH grants including one of the eMERGE centers from NGHRI, which focus upon genome wide association studies against shared phenotypes derived from electronic medical records. Dr. Chute serves on the Mayo Clinic Data Governance and the enterprise IT Oversight Committees. He is presently Chair of the US delegation to ISO TC215 for Health Informatics, Chair of the Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics study section at NIH, Chair of the Board of the HL7/FDA/NCI/CDISC BRIDG project, on the Board of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), Secretary of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), and Chairs the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 Revision. He also serves on strategic advisory panels to NCRR and NHGRI within NIH. Recently held positions include the ANSI Health Information Standards Technology Panel (HITSP) Board member, Convener of Healthcare Concept Representation WG3 within the ISO Health Informatics Technical Committee (TC215), Co-chair of the HL7 Vocabulary Committee, Chair of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) WG6 on Medical Concept Representation, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Board member, and multiple other NIH biomedical informatics study sections as chair or member. Contact: Mayo Clinic College of Medicine 710 9th Ave SW Rochester MN 55902, USA [email protected] Office: +1 (507) 284-5506 Fax: +1 (507) 202-5818 Members of the Revision Steering Group for the revision of the International Classification of Diseases Robert JG CHALMERS Chair: Dermatology Topic Advisory Group Dr Chalmers has been a consultant dermatologist in Manchester since 1983. He has major interests in the systemic treatment of psoriasis and in evidence-based dermatology. He has been interested in terminology for skin disease since the 1980s. He was closely involved in the development of the British Association of Dermatologists’ Index of Dermatological Diagnoses (BAD Index ) which was developed in response to dissatisfaction with ICD for the codification of skin disease and was first published in 1994. Some 80 British dermatologists have contributed to its development and its subsequent revisions. He was also a member of the Dermatology Specialty Working Group which submitted terms to the UK National Health Service’s project to develop a generic healthcare terminology, Clinical Terms, in the mid-1990s. Clinical Terms was amalgamated in 1999 with the American generic healthcare terminology, SNOMED RT as SNOMED CT . The majority of terms in the BAD Index were submitted to Clinical Terms and thus appear in SNOMED CT . He has had a close interest in the further development of SNOMED CT . He contributed to the SNOMED CT multiprofessional quality assessment (MPQA) exercise to which he and colleagues contributed in 2002 soon after SNOMED CT was first published. As a result of these efforts the BAD was invited to work with the International SNOMED organisation and a further 2,000 dermatological terms which had not been included were added to SNOMED CT in 2004. He has also worked closely with Professors Mark Pittelkow and Peter Elkin of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota in evaluation of the dermatology content of SNOMED CT vis-à-vis the BAD Index , and more recently, of the Dermatology Lexicon . In 2001 he was invited on to the Advisory Board of the Dermatology Lexicon Project by Professor Lowell Goldsmith and colleagues and visited them in Rochester, New York, in December of that year to advise on the Project. He has been keen to see the development of a standardised reference terminology for dermatology and convened a meeting of interested parties at the World Congress in Buenos Aires in October 2007 to discuss the feasibility of this. Contact: Robert Chalmers Department of Dermatology Dermatology Centre Manchester Royal Infirmary University of Manchester School of Medicine Oxford Road Stott Lane Manchester M13 9WL UK Eccles Manchester M6 8HD UK tel +44 (0) 161 276 4173 tel +44 (0) 161 206 1016 fax +44 (0) 161 276 8881 fax +44 (0) 161 206 1018 [email protected] Members of the Revision Steering Group for the revision of the International Classification of Diseases Michael WEICHENTHAL Co-Chair: Dermatology Topic Advisory Group Dr Weichenthal is a dermatologist based at the University of Kiel in Germany. He has research interests in the epidemiology and genetics of psoriasis. Further interests are in malignant melanoma and other skin malignancies as well as photobiology. Dr. Weichenthal has been involved in coding and classification of dermatological diseases since the 1990s. Since the retirement of Dr Tilo Henseler in 2000, Dr Weichenthal has led the Diagnostic Coding Working Group of the Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft. This group has overseen the development and modification of an extended six-character German language clinical modification of the dermatology content of ICD10, the Dermatologischer Diagnosenkatalog mit ICD-10 Schlüssel (2000). It is in routine use by German dermatologists to enable them to make official returns to government and health insurance organisations. An English translation of the DDK was adopted by the ILDS as the preferred clinical modification of ICD10 and is available from the ILDS website. Dr. Weichenthal holds a degree in Medical Informatics and is responsible for the clinical skin cancer registry, being part of the Kiel based Comprehensive Cancer Centre North. Here he is engaged in implementing recent classification models for melanoma, cutaneous lymphomas and other skin malignancies. Contact: Dr Michael Weichenthal Klinik für Dermatologie, Venerologie und Allergologie Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel Schittenhelmstr. 7 24105 Kiel, Germany Tel.: 0431-597 1539 Fax: 0431-597 1606 [email protected] Members of the Revision Steering Group for the revision of the International Classification of Diseases James E. HARRISON Chair: External Cases and Injuries Topic Advisory Group Dr James Harrison is an injury epidemiologist who directs the Research Centre for Injury Studies at Flinders University, in South Australia. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at the university. The Research Centre operates the National Injury Surveillance Unit (NISU) of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, which he also directs. NISU is Australia’s national centre for injury surveillance. Its many publications are accessible on-line. Dr Harrison and the NISU team make extensive use of mortality data and hospital data classified according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). During the past decade, they have worked closely with Australia’s National Centre for Classification in Health concerning the injury and external causes chapters of the Australian clinical versions of ICD-9 and ICD-10, providing advice and making submissions concerning the content of revisions. Dr Harrison is currently a chief investigator in a project to evaluate the quality of ICD external cause coding of hospitalized injury cases in Australia. Dr Harrison has been actively involved with the development of the International Classification of External Causes of Injury (ICECI) since its inception, and is a member of the ICECI Coordination and Development Group. He is also a longstanding active participant in the International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics, convened by the US National Center for Health Statistics. Dr Harrison holds a degree in medicine from Melbourne University, a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Sydney, and is a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine. His main areas of research interest are injury prevention and control, and methods and infrastructure for public health surveillance and evaluation, including classifications. Contact: Research Centre for Injury Studies Flinders University – School of Medicine National Injury Surveillance Unit AIHW, Sturt Road, Bedford Park, Adelaide, Australia [email protected] Members of the Revision Steering Group for the revision of the International Classification of Diseases Kentaro SUGANO Chair: Internal Medicine Topic Advisory Group Dr Kentaro Sugano received his doctorate and degree in medicine at the University of Tokyo. Further education at the Tokyo University Hospital led to the PhD. Dr Sugano did research at the University of California, and at the University of Michigan. His further career continued at the University of Tokyo and the Jichi Medical School. Dr Sugano is Chief Professor and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, Jichi Medical University and Deputy Director of Jichi Medical University Hospital. Dr Sugano is a member of several national and
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