A8:   Information technologies for the education of health professionals

Joseph W Hales is an Assistant Professor of Health Management and Informatics and Director of the Health Informatics Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Hales completed a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University and holds a PhD in Medical Informatics from the University of Utah. Before coming to MU, Dr. Hales served on the research faculty in Medical Informatics at Duke University for over seven years where he is also the Associate Director of the Duke Training Program in Medical Informatics. Dr. Hales’ research activities focus on knowledge representation for computer-based patient records, on consumer health informatics, and on medical informatics education.

Dr. Hales serves as a member of the Board of Directors, as well as the chair of the Education Committee of the American Medical Informatics Association and recently served on the task force to develop medical informatics competencies as part of the Medical School Objectives Project of the Association of American Medical Colleges