Professor Alan Rector, MD
- Professor of Medical Informatics in the Department of Computer Science at University of Manchester
Member openEHR CRB since June 2006.
Alan Rector was presented with the first award for time achievement in Health Informatics by the British Computer Society in 2003. Over the past twenty-five years he has led a series of projects on clinical decision support, medical records, and medical terminology including the ground breaking PEN&PAD project on intelligent medical records sponsored jointly by the UK Medical Research Council and Department of Health. During the 1990s his work focused on medical terminology and ontologies, and he led the EU sponsored GALEN programme (www.opengalen.org) and the UK Drug Ontology project sponsored by the Department of Health.
He now leads the MRC sponsored Cooperative Clinical E-Science Framework (CLEF/CLEF-Services) consortium of seven UK universities, NHS trusts, and Cancer Networks which aims to provide “joined up” information solutions for clinical care and clinical and bioscience research in cancer (www.clinical-escience.org). His work on clinical terminology and ontologies provided a key stimulus for the technologies which underpin the use of ontologies for the Semantic Web, and he now leads the CO-ODE consortium sponsored under the UK E-Science infrastructure initiative developing ontology tools which bring together frames and the new web ontology language OWL by combining Protégé and OilEd.
He has been a visiting senior scientist at Stanford University and consultant to the NHS Information Authority, Hewlett Packard, the Mayo Clinic, and a variety of smaller companies. He is a member of the JISC Committee for the Support of Research, the National Cancer Research Institute Board for Bioinformatics, the Joint NHS/Higher Education Forum on Informatics, and the Board of the Academic Forum of the UK Institute for Health Informatics. He is also active in HL7 and on the board of HL7-UK. Professor Rector received his BA in Philosophy and Mathematics from Pomona College, his medical training at the universities of Chicago and Minnesota where he obtained his MD, and his PhD in Medical Informatics from the University of Manchester.
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