Université de Sherbrooke
WHO collaborative centre, Faculty of Medicine
3001 13 ave
Sherbrooke,
QC
Canada
J1H 5N4
andrew.grant@usherbrooke.ca
Biographical Sketch:
Andrew McGregor Grant received his MB ChB in Medicine in 1970 from Birmingham University UK, his MRCP, Member of Royal College of Physicians in London 1975, his D.Phil at Oxford University 1983 in Clinical Biochemistry and his FRCPC, Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Canada in Medical Biochemistry in 1990. In 2004 he was elected as Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He is full Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke and director of CRED: Collaborative Research in Effective Diagnostics, which has several research projects in Intelligent Systems and clinical data. He leads health informatics for the faculty WHO collaborative centre. He directs online courses in Health Informatics for health professionals and in Health Informatics Standards in Canada. 2004-2006 he was co-president of the Standards Steering Committee of Canada Infoway and now serves on the Canada Infoway Standards Technical Coordinating Committee. He is member of the Canadian delegation to ISO 215 in Health Informatics and leader of its Clinical Data Warehouse activity and also initiatives in standards knowledge management. He also serves on the Technical Committee of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation IHTSDO.