Karen Duncan

Karen A. Duncan is a biostatistician and health informatics specialist, who was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2000.[1]

Duncan earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Oklahoma. She has worked as an associate professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, as a member of the technical staff at the Mitre Corporation, and as an independent consultant.[2]

She is the author of the books Health Information and Health Reform: Understanding the Need for a National Health Information System (Jossey-Bass, 1994)[3] and Community Health Information Systems: Lessons for the Future (Health Information Press, 1998).[4]

References

  1. ↑ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2015-06-30: "Karen has been an outstanding researcher, writer, innovator, and leader in medical informatics, and has a sustained, outstanding record of leadership and service to the ACM and the computing community."
  2. ↑ ACM Educational Board (1983), ACM Curricula Recommendations for Related Computer Science Programs in Vocational-Technical Schools, Community and Junior Colleges, and Health Computing, Vol. III, Association for Computing Machinery, Contributor biography, p. 189, ISBN 0-89791-119-9.
  3. ↑ Rada, Roy (May 1995), "Book Review: Health Information and Health Reform: Understanding the Need for a National Health Information System, by Karen A. Duncan. (Jossey-Bass Publishers 1994)", SIGBIO Newsletter, New York, NY, USA: ACM, 15 (2): 13.
  4. ↑ ACM Digital Library entry for Community Health Information Systems, retrieved 2015-06-30.
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