National University
NU Community Research Institute
11255 N. Torrey Pines Road
R144
La Jolla,
CA
USA
92037
adatta@nu.edu
Biographical Sketch:
2000 – present Various capacities; presently as Director of Technology R & D, NU Community Research Institute (NUCRI) and Senior Faculty Associate, National University.
1997 – 2003 Scientific Staff member, The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA
1993 – 1997 Associate Scientist, Cytel Corporation, San Diego, CA
1990 – 1993 Instructor, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
1987 – 1990 Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI.
1980 – 1987 Scientific Staff Member, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Agra, India.
1976 – 1980 Lecturer, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, India.
As a part of my academic activities, I often organize such panel discussions. In the past, I organized a panel discussion at SC09 (http://sc09.supercomputing.org/?pg=panels.html) with the title "Cyberinfrastructure in Healthcare Management" and invited panelists from CDC, UTMB, SDSC/UCSD, and NCHC (Taiwan). The presentation materials served us to create CIBRED course materials (https://cibred.vbi.vt.edu/drupal/?q=content/cyberinfrastructure-healthcare-management-0) for this NSF funded CI-TEAM project. Now, I am involved in disseminating these educational materials through multiple media including utilizing these for modifying my previously created course HSC 410 (Informatics for Health Professionals) for our School of Health and Human Services of the National University (www.nu.edu). More of such activities can be found from my home page: www.arundatta.info.
Two relevant publications on Childhood Obesity Informatics Systems:
CHOIS: Enabling grid technologies for obesity surveillance and control. Arun K. Datta, Victoria Jackson, Radha Nandkumar, Jill Sproat, Weimo Zhu , Heidi Krahling. In ‘Healthgrid Applications and Core Technologies (Eds. , T. Solomonides, I. Blanquer, V. Breton, T. Glatard, and Y. Legre), vol 159, p191-202, IOS Press, Washington D.C. ISBN 978-1-60750-582-2; Presented at the HealthGrid 2010, Paris, June 28-30, 2010; Cyberinfrastructure for CHOIS - a Global Health initiative for obesity surveillance and control. Arun K. Datta, Victoria Jackson, Radha Nandkumar, and Weimo Zhu. Proceedings in the PRAGMA 18, San Diego (CA), March 3 -4, 2010.
Numerous presentations at scientific meetings.
Author or coauthor of multiple publications relating health information technology.
Teach health informatics at the National University and guide MS level Computer science students for software prototype development as Capstone Projects..
Supervise development and deployment of software systems relating to healthcare.