Alan Rector

Alan Rector

Alan Rector is a Professor of Medical Informatics in the University of Manchester School of Computer Science in the UK. He received the B.A. from Pomona College, the M.D. from University of Minnesota and the Ph.D from the University of Manchester.

His specialty is clinical terminology, ontology, and the development of the semantic web. He presently leads the CO-ODE and HyOntUse projects developing user-oriented ontology development environments under the JISC and EPSRC Semantic Web and Autonomic Computing initiatives as well as the CLEF project, developing secure and ethical methods to collect live patient record data, under the MRC eScience initiative.

He has published 29 journal and conference papers in informatics.

He has been a visiting senior scientist at Stanford University. He has been a consultant to the NHS Information Authority, the Mayo Clinic & Hewlett Packard, 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 on the board of HL7-UK., the main standards board for the subject.

In 2003,received the 1st British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee award for lifetime service to Health Informatics.

=External links=
* [http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rector/home_page_rector/ Alan Rectors homepage at the University of Manchester]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/r/Rector:Alan_L=.html Peer reviewed publications by Alan Rector in Computer Science] from DBLP
* [http://www2006.org/speakers/rector/ Alan Rector speaker information] from the World Wide Web Conference
* [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-lifesci/2005Dec/0023.html Alan Rector introduction on public-semweb-lifesci mailing list] at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
* [http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewPerson.aspx?PersonId=13081 Grants awarded to Alan Rector] by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
* [http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Alan_Rector Alan Rector on Ontoworld.org]


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