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Office
College Of American Pathologists
325 Waukegan Rd
Northfield, IL 60093
Summary
- Senior Director, Standards and Guidelines with oversight of pathology/clinical informatics, AI, digital and computational pathology, center for pathology and laboratory practice guidelines, and cancer protocols and data standards. Advise and lead in cancer informatics and standardization activities with key stakeholder organizations such as the CDC, AJCC, ACoS, NCI, and WHO-IARC. Lead as business sponsor for FDA-funded project developing and testing IVD laboratory test encoding data exchange and quality assurance program. Developing best-practice standardized and structured reporting products assisting pathologists in their cancer reporting workflow and health systems in better use and exchange of their data to advance patient care. Previously clinical editor for SNOMED-CT, emergency physician, emergency department quality assessment officer, and practicing internist. Board-certified in Clinical Informatics and Emergency Medicine.
Education & Training
- Kellogg Executive School of Management (Northwestern University)Certificate, Product Strategy, 2019 - 2020
- Christiana Care Health ServicesResidency, Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine, 2000 - 2005
- Rutgers New Jersey Medical SchoolClass of 2000
- University of Notre DameBA, Russian, Pre-Med, Cum Laude, 1991 - 1995
Certifications & Licensure
- IL State Medical License 2005 - 2026
- American Board of Emergency Medicine Emergency Medicine
- American Board of Preventive Medicine Clinical Informatics
Publications & Presentations
Journal Articles
- College of American Pathologists Cancer Protocols: From Optimizing Cancer Patient Care to Facilitating Interoperable Reporting and Downstream Data Use. PMID: 33439728Vanda F. Torous, MD, Ross W. Simpson, MD, Jyoti P. Balani, MD, Alexander S. Baras, MD, PhD, Michael A. Berman, MD, George G. Birdsong, MD, Giovanna A. Giannico, MD, Gl..., JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, 1/13/2021
- Cancer biomarkers: the role of structured data reporting. PMID: 25275812Simpson RW, Berman MA, Foulis PR, Divaris DX, Birdsong GG, Mirza J, Moldwin R, Spencer S, Srigley JR, Fitzgibbons PL., Arch Pathol Lab Med, 5/2015
- Introducing new College of American Pathologists reporting templates for cancer biomarkers. PMID: 23808404Fitzgibbons PL, Lazar AJ, Spencer S., Arch Pathol Lab Med, 2/2014
Press Mentions
- American Joint Committee on Cancer announces new leaders for 2020December 17th, 2019
- California readies to collect cancer data in real timeMay 2nd, 2020
- From the President’s Desk: Human factors engineeringMay 2nd, 2020
Committees
- Lead staff, CAP Council on Informatics and Pathology Innovation 2022 - Present
- Member, AJCC Executive Committee 2019 - Present
- Staff, CAP Cancer Committee 2011 - Present
- Staff, CAP Pathology Electronic Reporting Committee 2011 - Present
Professional Memberships
- Member
- Association for Pathology Informatics - APIMember
Other Languages
- French
External Links
- All Global Circle Referral Linkhttp://m3gr.io/VLWYHSR/7415561
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