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Description: Medical applications of voice recongition technology.
Dr Steve Walsh
21 Darley Mead Court
Hampton Lane
Solihull
B91 2QA
West Midlands
UK
Tel (H): +44 (0121) 711-1083
Cell: +44 07818 405786
Email: steve.walsh@altavista.net
M.B.,Ch.B.
Master of Medicine and Surgery
Univ. of Pretoria
1973
M.Med. (Int.)
Master of Internal Medicine
Univ. of Stellenbosch
1981
Dip.Data. (Inf.)
Diploma in Datametrics - Cum Laude
Univ. of South Africa
1986
M.Sc. (H.I.)
Master of Science in Health Informatics
Univ. College London
2002
CAREER SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE
· Consultant Physician / Internist
· Medical informatician
· Training and development
· Reports and technical writing
· Multimedia instructional design
· End-user software training and support
· Data storage and knowledge management
· Data mining, descriptive and predictive statistics
· Conference, seminar and workshop development
· Networking, hardware installation and troubleshooting
· Programming in Pascal, Visual Basic, VBA, KnowledgePro
· Commercial experience with running my own computer
technology company
· Research in medical education, cognition, voice
recognition and web resource design
· Development of databases, web sites, desktop/voice
applications and enterprise solutions
CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
· Internist with 27 years of clinical experience and broad
practical procedural skills
· Extensive involvement in medical informatics for over 20
years.
· Voice recognition - experience with voice macro
interfaces, alternative language vocabulary and voice-based patient
record systems.
· Appointed Head of Statistics and Medical Data and
developed computer programs to support departmental staffing decisions
and finances.
· Opened a very successful private practice which grew too
large for one consultant. Developed an electronic patient record
system.
· Implemented the first departmental computer network and
wrote programs for administering student marks.
· Publications including an article in Methods of
Information in Medicine.
CAREER EXPERIENCE
Completed an MSc in Health Informatics at UCL. The dissertation was
on the incorporation of speech into the EPR using speech recognition
technology.
2001
TeleMed 98 - Attended the Telemedicine conference held in London.
Healthcare Computing 99 - Attended this conference held at Harrogate.
Structured Data Entry - Programmed VBA modules for Word to facilitate
patient data capture.
1999
Elected - Vice-chairman of the South African Medical Informatics
Group.
1992 - 1995
Symposium - Attended the International Symposium on Medical
Informatics and Education held in Victoria, Canada and delivered a
paper.
1989
Representative - Nominated as the South African representative for
IMIA Working Group 1 (the field of computers and medical education).
1988
Summer School - Attended the Summer School on Computers in Medical
Research, held in Cape Town.
1988
Symposium - Attended the Symposium on Information Systems in Health
Care, held at Onderstepoort. (Also delivered a paper.)
1987
Vice-chairman - Elected vice-chairman of the Western Cape Regional
Group of the South African Medical Informatics Group.
1987
SIG Meeting - Chairman of the Computer Society of South Africa's
Medical Special Interest Group seminar on Distributed Processing held
in Cape Town.
Explodata - Started own computer business. Business is still
flourishing in Cape Town. Networks, software development, intranets,
web site development.
1987
Committee - Served on the Organizing Committee for the Workshop on
Information Systems in Health Care held at Onderstepoort.
1986
Medinfo 86 - Attended the 5th International Congress on Medical
Informatics (MEDINFO 86) held in Washington DC, USA.
1986
Medical Informatics Congress - Member of the Organizing Committee
responsible for the academic standard of the papers delivered at the
Medical Informatics Congress held in Cape Town.
Departmental Network - Implemented the first academic computer
network.
1985
Programming - Completed a course in Mapper programming on the Sperry
mainframe computer at Tygerberg Hospital.
1985
Computer science - Attended the computer science lectures at the
University of Stellenbosch.
1984
Computer-assisted audio-visual programs - Multimedia tuition material
for medical students on cardiovascular system examination techniques
and jugular pulse waves.
1983
REFERENCES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST
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