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Prof Abdul Roudsari
Professor
Room: A304
Centre for Health Informatics
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

A.V.Roudsari@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 8367
fax: +44 20 7040 8364

Profile

Abdul Roudsari is Professor of Health Informatics and the Director of the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) at City University. He has been a member of the Centre since 1989, having had a particular involvement in a range of research projects concerned with the provision of decision support systems to diabetic patients. Recently he has led a major innovative EU-funded home telecare project. This project has enabled the Centre’s already large number of international collaborations to be extended to groups in Portugal and Estonia. The research area of home telecare is one that offers opportunities for further substantial projects involving both specific application/ implementation studies as well as opportunities for research into evaluation methodologies. His current research focus are on:

• Electronic healthcare (eHealth) has widely acknowledged potential to improve integration, quality, outcomes and costs in developed countries. Connecting for Health (CfH), in England, is the largest example of its kind in the world and already at advanced stages. However, there is relatively little work to develop the potential of eHealth in developing countries. His research focus would be based on existing research by his PhD students in Gambia and Mexico.
• Telecare and e-health: management of elderly and chronically-ill patients in their home environment using advanced healthcare technologies for home monitoring.
• Advanced and intelligent methods for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of data from the Electronic Patient Record and patient in the community for the purposes of developing Intelligent & evidence based Decision Support Systems for diagnosis, state prediction, management and prognosis.

Key Journal Papers (Peer reviewedi - ®)

• MN Kamel Boulos, FE Harvey , AV Roudsari, R Bellazzi, ME Hernando, T Deutsch T, DG Cramp , ER Carson . M2DM, decision support, and improving clinical outcomes by education: a proposed semantic framework for diabetes education content management, customisation, delivery and evaluation. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 2006; 83; 188-197
• AV Roudsari, HJ Leicester, ER Carson. The developing science and technology of home data collection illustrated with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Measurement and Control 2004; 37(5): 141-145 ®
• A Roudsari, Nengquan Zhao, ER Carson. A web-based diabetes management system Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control 2004; 26: 201-222. ®
• AV Roudsari (ed). Telemedicine and E-health. Measurement and Control 2004; 37(5): 140-153
• E-J Berridge, AV Roudsari. diabCAL: evaluating computer-aided learning for diabetes patient education. ASLIB Proceedings 2003: 55(5/6): 367-378 ®
• MN Kamel Boulos, AV Roudsari, ER Carson. A simple method for serving Web hypermaps with dynamic database drill-down. International Journal of Health Geographics, 2002; 1; 1 ®
• C Danas, PH Ketikidis, AV Roudsari. A virtual hospital pharmacy inventory. International Journal of Medical Marketing 2002; 2(2): 125-129 ®
• MN Kamel Boulos, AV Roudsari, ER Carson. A dynamic problem to knowledge linking semantic web service based on clinical codes. Medical Informatics & The Internet in Medicine, 2002; 27(3):127-137 ®
• MN Kamel Boulos, AV Roudsari, ER Carson. HealthCyberMap: a semantic visual Browser of medical internet resources based on clinical codes and the human body metaphor. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 2002; 19(4): 189-200 ®
• MN Kamel Boulos, AV Roudsari, ER Carson. Towards a semantic medical web: HeathCyber Map’s tool for building an RDF metadata base of health information resources based on the Qualified Dublin Core Metadata Set. Medical Science Monitor, 2002; 8(7): MT124-MT136 ®
• MN Kamel Boulos, AV Roudsari, C Gordon, JA Muir Gray. The use of quality benchmarking in assessing web resources for the dermatology virtual branch library of the National electronic Library for Health: a preparatory study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2001; 3(1): e5 [www.jmir.org/2001/1/e5] ®
• M Kamel Boulos, AV Roudsari, ER Carson. Health geomatics: an enabling suite of technologies in health and healthcare. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2001; 34: 195-219. [www.idealibrary.com/links/doi/10.1006/jbin.2001.1015] ®
• E-J Berridge, AV Roudsari, S Taylor, S Carey. Computer-aided learning for the education of patients and family practice professionals in the personal care of diabetes. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 2000; 62:191-204 ®
• MN Kamel Boulos, AV Roudsari, C Gordon, JA Muir Gray. Metadata, RDF and problem-knowledge coupling for the NeLH: a preparatory study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2000; 2(4) ®

Research Student Successes

The following research students have successfully completed their studies under his supervision:

• D Williams (PhD-2007)(EPSRC CASE) "Virtual colonoscopy for inflammatory bowel diseases"
• M Lloyd (PhD-2007)(Royal Free Hospital, UK) "Meta analysis-population, intervention, ou tcome, patient data entry" (Submitted , awaiting viva)
• C Danas (PhD-2006) VPIS: The Virtual hospital pharmacy inventory system
• MA Vogel (PhD –2004)) “Management of hypertension – computer-aided learning and decision support” (ESRC funded)
• E-J Berridge (PhD-2003)) “Computer-aided learning for the education of patients and GP practice nurses in personal care of diabetes” (ESRC CASE funded)
• L Yamuah (PhD-2003) “Healthcare provision in the Gambia: the role of health informatics” (WHO/MRC funded)
• I Gowrie (PhD-2002) “Modelling approaches in the assessment of metabolic disorders” (ESRC CASE funded) [Second Supervisor]
• MN Kamal-Boulos (PhD-2002) “HealthCyberMap: Mapping the health cyberspace using hypermedia GIS and clinical codes”
• S Zhao (MPhil-2001) “Web-based diabetes management systems: DiabNet”
• S Wilson (PhD-1997) “Decision support system for management of hypertension” (ESRC CASE funded)

Current Research Students

• JJ Adriano-Moran (Mexico) [from 10/04] “Modelling of telemedicine services”
• K Al-Kadi (Saudi Arabia) [from 10/05] “Automated healthcare systems in Saudi Arabia”
• J Bostock (UK) [from 10/05] “Cardiac arrhythmia diagnosis – implantable devices: development of new algorithms using informatics techniques and technologies” [Second Supervisor]
• G Derwent (UK) [from 10/05] “The Application of Health Informatics and Visualisation to Rehabilitation Goal-setting” (In collaboration with Dr Wendy Magee from Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability)
• H Ezzatizadeh (Iran)[10/05] “Development of a portable patient monitoring system for use in healthcare and commercial settings”
• S Henni (Algeria)[from 10/04] “Electronics patient records: their role in reducing drug prescription errors”
• M Hill (UK ) [from 10/05] “Data Management and Computer Usage in Diabetes”
• A Papagiannis (Greece) [10/05]“Restructuring healthcare services in the Balkans”
• RG Rochin (Mexico) [from 10/05] “Decision support systems” [Second Supervisor]

Educational Leadership

Design of novel Masters programmes in Health Informatics and Healthcare Technologies.

• The Health Informatics programme is the UK brand leader. Its academic standing is reflected in its ability to attract students from a wide range of technical, clinical and allied health professional backgrounds from around the globe. Moreover, it is the first to have secured professional recognition at strategic level from the NHS Information Authority (now NPfIT - National Programme for IT). This recognises the fact that his programme design matches a key government need in terms of health service delivery.
• The Healthcare Technologies programme in a similar way has been designed to meet the needs of professionals, including those having key responsibilities within NPfIT Connecting for Health to ensure that they can acquire the knowledge and skills needed in the increasingly ICT-underpinned NHS.

Professional Leadership

Major roles in professional societies concerned with the national and international promotion of health informatics

• As elected Member, NHS Connecting for Health Faculty of Health Informatics Management Board (Feb 2006) nurturing close and effective relationships with key members of the NHS Information Centre and Connecting for Health , I have been able to gain professional recognition for the City Health Informatics programme as well as securing funding for other health informatics initiatives.
• As a Council Member of the UK Council for Health Informatics Professions (UKCHIP) I am a member of the team which is influencing and guiding the evolution of health informatics as a key profession within the health service.
• As Vice Chair of the UK Health Informatics Society I play a leading role in developing academic and professional initiatives for the benefit of the health informatics community in the UK and further a field.