Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
1825 Century Center
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30329
AKrishnaswamy@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Asha Krishnaswamy, MSc, B.EE is a product of three continents. She earned her Master’s in Applied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and her Bachelor in Electronics and Communication Engineering at the University of Madras, India. Before coming to CDC, she was President and Owner of an international IT firm specializing in software development in the US, UK, Singapore and India. During 1987 to 1992, she led and converted a large multi specialty clinical database, used for patient care and medical research, from a local to a National system in Scotland. She was assigned to the Knowledge Management Division of the National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) during her two-year informatics fellowship. Her interests include surveillance using electronic health records, knowledge management, decision support and ontologies. She currently leads informatics science efforts as Health Scientist (Informatics) with the Office of the Director at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC.
• Application of Health Informatics for Global efforts: The Care of Adult with Congenital Heart Defects’ Surveillance - Abstract for poster presentation at the World Congress of Cardiology Conference, May 2008
• A Semantic Framework for Global Disease Surveillance - Abstract for presentation at the International Semantic Web Conference, November 2006