Director of Health Informatics Faculty of Health Sciences University of Adelaide VP Research & Development Alcidion Corporation

Position

• Vice President, Research and Development, Alcidion Corporation.
• Director of Health Informatics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide .

Education

1997 . Doctorate of Philosophy in Medical Informatics, Section on Medical Informatics
Stanford University , Stanford , California , United States of America .

1991 . Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Adelaide , Adelaide , South Australia .

Skills & Experience

• Registered medical practitioner.
• Experience in commercialization of research ip in a Small/Medium Enterprise (SME). Successful in a National Comet grant, and patent application.
• Development innovations in healthcare in collaboration with multiple stakeholders: Health department ( DHS SA), commercial partners (Microsoft, SME s), hospital management, clinical staff (unit heads, specialists, residents, nurses, pharmacists).
• Risk analysis, risk management, patient safety, evidence-based medicine, guideline construction and implementation. Decision support systems (probabilistic and rules-based), medical decision making, decision analysis, cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis.
• Software engineering and in project management. Competent in object oriented design and implementation ( UML , Extreme programming, C/C ++, C #, Lisp, S-Plus, Matlab).
• Electronic Health Records, medical terminology and knowledge representation. Workflow clinical modelling, statistical data mining.
• Associate Dean for Information Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide 1997-2002 . Participated on numerous it related committees for the Faculty and University including PeopleSoft implementation, Y2K , strategy and modernization.
• PhD in evidence-based (probabilistic) decision models for medical decision making.

Commercial

• Vice president of Research and Development for Alcidion Corporation ( 2000- ), for the architecture and implementation of advanced decision support and point of care risk management systems for the healthcare industry. The system won the 2003 National Secrets in IT award.
• Partner with Microsoft and Department of Human Services ( SA ) in the Microsoft/ Sa government Innovation Centre for the deployment of point of care risk management systems in two Adelaide teaching hospitals.
• Consulting for Microsoft in Healthcare applications.
• Consulting in patient safety for the National Health Service (NHS) UK .
• Consulting in risk management for PerkinElmer Life Sciences.
• Director of R&D for the Australian Patient Safety System ( 1999-2000 ) where I designed and directed the implementation of a logic-based system and patient safety ontology for incident reporting.
• Consulting for the Department of Human Services ( SA ) in hospital workflow modelling and risk management.
• Consulting for Kpmg & The Commonwealth Government in system modelling and data mining for the National Evaluation of Coordinated Care Trials.

Current Activities

• The deployment of computerized evidence-based risk management systems for the prevention of common preventable errors, and improved compliance to clinical guidelines
• he analysis and risk management of communication and workflow activity in clinical environments
• Research in breast cancer spread and risk modelling.
• Supervision of PhD and Masters students in, evidence-based medical decision making, and clinical workflow analysis modelling.

Selected Service Activities

2003. Foundation member of the Australian College of Health Informatics .

2001 - 2002 . Working group for the definition of a Curriculum in Health Informatics for the Commonwealth's Department of Health and Aged Care.

2000 . Chair of the National Health Informatics Conference ( HIC 2000 ). Adelaide , September 3 - 5 .

1998 -present. Committee of the Australian Health Informatics Association, South Australia Branch, AHIA ( SA ).

1996 - 1997 . Program committee for the American Association of Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI ) National Conference.

1990 - 1992 . Founding Committee member of the Australian Health Informatics Association, South Australia Branch, AHIA ( SA ).

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Farshid G, Pradhan M, Kollias J, Grantley Gill P. ( 2004 ) A decision aid for predicting non-sentinel node involvement in women with breast cancer and at least one positive sentinel node. Breast . Dec 13(6):494-501 .

Edmonds MJ, Crichton TJ, Runciman WB, Pradhan M. ( 2004 ) Evidence-based risk factors for postoperative deep vein thrombosis. ANZ J Surg . Dec 74(12):1082-1097 .

Winefield HR., Coventry B.J., Pradhan M, Harvey E., Lambert V. ( 2003 ). A Comparison of Women with Breast Cancer who Do and Do Not Seek Support from the Internet. Aust J Psych 2003; 55(1).

Runciman W., Edmonds , M., Pradhan, M. ( 2002 ). Setting priorities for patient safety. Qual Saf Health Care 2002 Sep;11(3):224-9

Farshid G, Pradhan M, Goldblum J, Weiss SW. ( 2002 ) Leiomyosarcoma of somatic soft tissues: a tumor of vascular origin with multivariate analysis of outcome in 42 cases. Am J Surg Pathol . Jan; 26 ( 1 ): 14 - 24

Pradhan, M., Edmonds., M., Runciman, W. ( 2001 ) Quality in Healthcare: Process. Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology . 2001 ; 15 ( 4 ): 555 - 571

Farshid, G., Pradhan, M., Kollias, J., Gill, G. ( 2000 ). Computer simulations of nodal metastasis for optimizing the pathological examination of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. Cancer , 15 ; 89 ( 12 ): 2527 - 2537 .

Weekley, J., Smith, B., Pradhan, M. ( 2000 ) The intersection of health informatics and evidence-based medicine: computer-based systems to assist clinicians. MJA , 173 : 376 - 378 .

Pradhan, M. ( 1997 ). Efficient approximation in decision models using Monte Carlo simulation. Dissertation , Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University .

Pradhan M, Henrion M, Provan GM, Del Favero B, Huang K. ( 1996 ). The Sensitivity of belief networks to imprecise probabilities: An experimental investigation. Artificial Intelligence , 85 : 363 - 397 .

Pradhan M. and Dagum P. ( 1996 ). Optimal Monte Carlo estimation of belief network inference. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence , Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference, Portland , or , pages 446 - 454 . Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco , CA .

Henrion M, Pradhan M, Del Favero B, Huang K, and O'Rorke P. ( 1996 ). Why is diagnosis using belief networks insensitive to imprecision in probabilities? Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence , Portland , or , pages 307 - 314 . Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco , CA .

Pradhan M, Provan GM and Henrion M. ( 1994 ). Knowledge engineering for large belief networks. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence , Seattle , Washington , pages 484 - 490 . Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo , CA .

Pradhan M, Provan GM and Henrion, M. ( 1994 ). Experimental analysis of large belief networks for medical diagnosis. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care , Washington D.C. , pages 775 - 779 . Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia , PA .

Pradhan M and Dev P. ( 1993 ) Conceptual Change and Computer-Assisted Instruction. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care , Washington D.C. , pages 786 - 790 . Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia , PA .

Book Chapters

Pradhan M. ( 1996 ) Telemedicine, an overview. In: Hovenga ES, Kidd MR, Cesnik B, eds. Health informatics : an overview . Churchill Livingstone, Melbourne.

Walker DC, Crampton RM, Kidd MR, Adkins P, Carson NE , Cesnik B, Coffey G, Cooper B, Elderfield HK, Flaherty G, Frank OR, Hickson N, Liaw ST, Lord T, MacIsaac P, Pradhan M, Ravet J, Saltman D and Talty T. ( 1992 ) Health Information Issues in General Practice in Australia . Bibliotech, Canberra .

Peer-reviewed Abstracts

Pradhan M., Delin M., Lee D. A multi-site, open architecture implementation of decision support to reduce preventable error and improve clinical guideline compliance - the Radar Project. Proceedings Health Informatics Conference 2003 , Sydney , NSW .

Coventry , BJ, Winefield, H; Pradhan, M and Schiller, G. What Use is The Internet to Women With Breast Cancer? Psycho-Oncology 9: (5 ), S79, 2000.

Pradhan, M., Davies, F., Wilkinson, I., Blight, I. ( 2000 ) Antimicrobial-coated central venous catheters: use of a decision analysis model . Australian Infection Control Association Conference . Adelaide , May 3 - 5 , 2000 .

Wilmott, P., Pradhan, M., Bentham, R., Hackendorf, P. ( 2000 ) The detection of Legionnaires Disease using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and a Bayesian Network model. . Proceedings of the Health Informatics Conference 2000 . Adelaide , South Australia . September 3 - 5

Little, K., Pradhan, M. A Computer-Aided Model for Risk Assessment of Falling in the Elderly. Proceedings of the Health Informatics Conference 2000 . Adelaide , South Australia . September 3 - 5.

Edmonds , M., Crichton, T., Pradhan, M., Runciman, W. ( 2000 ) Decision Support Systems in Preoperative Screening and Assessment. Proceedings of the Health Informatics Conference 2000 . Adelaide , South Australia . September 3 - 5

Clark, S. Pradhan, M. ( 2000 ) Comparison of Paper Clinical Guidelines and a Computerised Evidence Based Decision Support System for Community Acquired Pneumonia. Proceedings of the Health Informatics Conference 2000 . Adelaide , South Australia . September 3 - 5

McKay, M., Pradhan, M. ( 2000 ) The Use of Simulation Modelling to Overcome Operational and Structural Inefficiencies in Hospitals. Proceedings of the Health Informatics Conference 2000 . Adelaide , South Australia . September 3 - 5

Pradhan, M., Davies, F., Wilkinson, I., Blight, I. ( 2000 ) Antimicrobial-coated central venous catheters: use of a decision analysis model . Australian Infection Control Association Conference . Adelaide , May 3 - 5 , 2000 .

Farshid, G., Pradhan, M., Kollias, J., Gill, P.G. ( 1999 ) A mathematical model for optimizing the pathological examination of sentinel lymph nods in breast cancer. Sixth Nottingham International Breast Cancer Conference , Nottingham , U.K.

Pradhan, M., Crichton, T., Edmonds , M. Ludbrook, G. ( 1999 ). A comparison with statistical models of an evidence-based decision support system for the prophylaxis of post-operative nausea and vomiting . Proceedings of the Australian Health Informatics Conference . Hobart , Tasmania .

Davies, F., Pradhan, M. ( 1999 ) Towards a core curriculum in Health Informatics. A survey and categorisation of core concepts from 12 Health Informatics courses . Proceedings of the Australian Health Informatics Conference . Hobart , Tasmania .

Pradhan, M., Farshid, G. ( 1999 ) The use of genetic algorithms to optimise strategies for the detection in lymph nodes of metastatic spread. Proceedings of the Australian Health Informatics Conference . Hobart , Tasmania .

Pradhan, M, Henrion, M and Del Favero B. ( 1995 ) Knowledge Engineering for large Belief Networks. INFORMS Conference . Los Angeles , U.S.A.

Pradhan M and Fanning J. ( 1986 ) Stereometric Analysis for the Apple Macintosh Computer: MacPCS, The Tenth Australian Conference on Electron Microscopy . Adelaide , South Australia .

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