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J Jean Roberts
Jean is an internationally known health informatician with over thirty five years in Health Informatics latterly in consultancy since 1990, previously within the NHS in England and with multi-national vendors. In addition to CHIRAD participation she is a Senior Lecturer in HI in the Lancashire School of Health and Post-grad Medicine at UCLAN. She has extensive experience in strategic health initiatives, knowledge exchange, informatics, marketing, communications and promotion. Her enthusiasm for ‘spreading the word’ about informatics to support the health domain is typified by activity in many developed countries and nations in transition. She has had significant input to open learning projects across Europe. Her current research interests are in informatics learning for all healthcare practitioners, health / social care / lifestyle convergence and in achieving high quality citizens’ information. She is active in promoting professional development of health informaticians and in gaining recognition of health informatics as a discipline. She has presented and published internationally on many topics and has significant professional participation in national and international initiatives in health informatics and management. She chaired the medinfo2001 Organising Group and is now involved in addressing the issues faced by developing and developed countries, through IMIA WG9 in conjunction with EFMI colleagues. Jean’s external involvement includes: · Contact point, National Health Informatics Collection www.nationalhealthinformaticscollection.blogspot.com · Co-Chair, IMIA WG9 on Development · Communications Director, UK Council for Health Informatics Professions www.ukchip.org |
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