Honors - 1993 - Appointed by peers as one of the Charter Fellows to the American Academy of Veterinary Informatics (former Advisory Board member)
- 1987 - Recognized for contributions to the Companions For Therapy (ComForT) program (Pet-facilitated therapy) by the District II Long-term Care Ombudsman Council.
Education - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Ph.D. Computer Science, Sept. 1998
- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, Cambridge, MA; Research Training Fellowship in Medical Informatics with Clinical Decision Making Group
- Division of Clinical Decision Making, Informatics and Telemedicine; New England Medical Center, Boston, MA; informal fellowship in applied Decision Theory
- College of Eng., Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL; Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering, Dec. 1994; Computer Science minor, thesis deals with Simulation of Veterinary Practice
- College of Vet Med, University of Florida., Gainesville, FL; D.V.M. 1980.
Current Professional Activities - IT contract service (customers include Pfizer, Pharmacia, Gartner, AssetStream, WebCT and others)
- Enterprise IT architecture design and implementation
- Consulting in area of applied medical informatics and IT design
- Research involving decision support in medicine with an emphasis on (1) outcomes integration and (2) patient values representation through applied information and software technology
- Advisory Board Member; Veterinary Technologist Program; St. Petersburg College.
Past Professional Activities - American Association of Housecall Veterinarians (Founding Board Member) 1990
- Clinician/Proprietor of At Home Veterinary Services (small animal housecalls) 1982-1994
- Program Committee Chair for Talbot Symposium on Veterinary Informatics at the American Veterinary Medical Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD 1998
- Chaired Session at Delta Society Conference at Eastern States Veterinary Conference: "Pets Helping People" 1988
- Co-Chairman Fla. Vet. Med. Assoc. Committee on the Human-animal bond 1988.
Marital Status - Married since 1975 to Cheree who earned three PhT degrees and raised our two boys before completing her Masters, May 2005. [PhT= Putting hubby Through].
Four-legged Children - Galadriel (Yellow Labrador)
- Garfield (14 yr old Red Ratsnake left behind when our first-born moved out - native of Labelle, Florida, who moved to Boston for six years and back with us)
- Yellow-headed jawfish, pigmy angel, grey angel, cultured clownfish, a pair of banded coral shrimp, leather coral and... oh, yeah, these children don't have legs... sorry.
Hobbies - Authoring software (pathetic isn't it?)
- Sailboarding
- Photography.
Favorite Quote
- "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD." Jeremiah 9:24-5
What I like Most About VIN
- That it enables profound connections where there might otherwise be none at all!
Contact Information Duane Steward, DVM, MSIE, fellow AAVI
Principal Bioinformatics Engineer
SAIC
Suite 205
610 Sycamore St
Celebration, FL 34747 Office (321) 939-7912
Home Office (407) 671-3458
Fax (407 671-3458 duane@medg.csail.mit.edu
http://medg.csail.mit.edu/people/duane/duanespg.html
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