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Michael Blechner, MDAssistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory MedicineDirector, Blood Bank Director, Pathology Informatics Pathologist
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Education
Post-Graduate Training
Awards
| Degree | Institution | Major |
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| BA | Dartmouth College | Philosophy |
| MD | Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | Medicine |
Post-Graduate Training
| Training | Institution | Specialty |
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| Residency | Hartford Hospital | Anatomic and Clinical Pathology |
| Fellowship | Hartford Hospital | Hematopathology |
| Fellowship | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Medical Informatics |
Awards
| Name of Award/Honor | Awarding Organization |
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| UConn School of Medicine Student Government Appreciation Award | UConn School of Medicine Student Government |
| $6200 INBRE Grant to cover AMIA 10x10 course expenses for myself and one University of Kentucky pathology resident | |
| University of Kentucky Pathology Resident Teaching Award | University of Kentucky |
| College of American Pathologists Foundation Training in Technology Award, providing financial support for training and research in pathology informatics | College of American Pathologists Foundation |
| Name & Description | Category | Role | Type | Scope | Start Year | End Year |
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| Served on the Technology Assessment Committee, College of American Pathologists | Professional/Scientific Organization | Member | External | National | 2008 | 2009 |
| Bioinformatics Steering Committee for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science | Advisory Committee | Steering Committee | University | 2007 | 2010 | |
| Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS) Executive Committee | Professional/Scientific Organization | Committee Member | External | University | 2006 | 2010 |
| Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS) Clinical Decision Support Steering Committee | Professional/Scientific Organization | Steering Committee | External | University | 2006 | 2010 |
| Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS) Clinical Documentation Steering Committee | Professional/Scientific Organization | Steering Committee | External | University | 2006 | 2010 |
| Association for Pathology Informatics | Professional/Scientific Organization | Member | External | National | 2006 | |
| Served on the SNOMED International Authority, College of American Pathologists | Professional/Scientific Organization | Member | External | International | 2003 | 2004 |
| American Medical Informatics Association | Professional/Scientific Organization | Member | External | National | 2003 | |
| College of American Pathologists | Professional/Scientific Organization | Member | External | National | 1999 |
Research Interests: Semantic web and medical ontologies, intelligent tutoring systems, Integration of electronic health records (EHRs) into undergraduate and post-graduate medical training, and dimensional data warehousing to support clinical operations.
Journal Articles
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Predictors for Severe Tumor Lysis Syndrome
Journal of Hematology Oncology Pharmacy 2012 Jan;2(2):47-53
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Evaluation of a clinical scoring scale to direct early appropriate therapy in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
Journal of oncology pharmacy practice : official publication of the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners 2010 Jan;16(3):161-6
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Analysis of search in an online clinical laboratory manual.
American journal of clinical pathology 2006 Aug;126(2):208-14
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Feasibility of an intelligent tutoring system for laboratory medicine.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium 2005 Jan;895
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Using contextual design to identify potential innovations for problem based learning.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium 2003 Jan;91-5
Book Chapters
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A Viewpoint of Security for Digital Health Care: What's There? What Works? Whats Needed?
E-Health and Telemedicine: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications 2016 Jan;1245-1263
Case Reports
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Spinal Lymphoma Presenting as an Epidural and Retropleural Mass With Concomitant Pathologic Compression Fracture: A Case Report.
Cureus Journal of Medical Science 2022 Nov;14(11):e31155
Conference Papers
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A Proposed Star Schema and Extraction Process to Enhance the Collection of Contextual and Semantic Information for Clinical Research Data Warehouses
2012 Jan;
| Title or Abstract | Type | Sponsor/Event | Date/Year | Location |
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| EmergentMD: A Suite of Semantic Web-Based Tools for the Development and Intelligent Consumption of Medical Education Content | Talk | Information Technology in Academic Medicine | 2015 | San Diego, CA |
| Spoonfed MD: An Asynchronous Collaborative Medical Education Application to Facilitate Concept Interrelationship Discovery | Lecture | Medicine 2.0, 5th World Congress | 2012 | Boston, MA |
| Pathology Informatics | Talk | UCHC Clinical Laboratory | 2012 | UCHC Clinical Laboratory |
| LabMonitor: A Client-Server Based Application for Distribution of Customizable Electronic Tracking Boards for Clinical Laboratories | Talk | Pathology Informatics 2010 | 2010 | Boston, MA |