• Provide clinical leadership for the Urgent Care as well as Primary Care technical projects.  Regular presenter for Quarterly meetings.
• Assisted with development of an A3 project to improve clinician efficiency with Excellian (Epic)
• Created new SmartLinks to bring specific classes of medications into clinical documentation
• Created Epic CDS rules to help guide Physicians to better clinically appropriate tests.

ALLINA MEDICAL CLINIC – Urgent Care Physician Minneapolis, MN; 2008 – Present

• Created Oracle/SQL databases in concert with C# tools to allow clinicians to efficiently fine tune ClinicNote content for varied clinical venues and EMR capacities.
• Co-led development of automated quality assurance procedures that improved consistency and clinical relevance to ClinicNote content.
• Used National Library of Medicine databases, SNOMED CT, RX Norm to analyze/normalize content.
• Streamlined content review, cutting review time from 5 minutes down to 30 seconds, reducing mouse clicks from 75 to 1 for clinicians doing the reviews.
• Developed clinical content for Electronic Medical Record vendors.  ClinicNote was then able to help customers meet meaningful use criteria.
• Aided development of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) rules to improve healthcare in Tamil Nadu India, population 70 million:
  • Redesigned the web interface by organizing the way Physicians think about the disease. This cut the time it took to test the CDS rules by 1/4 and increased accuracy.   Video!  It’s long but shows what we are expected to deal with as clinicians everyday!
  • Designed an automated testing system, using Excel/Javascript/HTML, to allow thorough testing of hundreds of interacting rules, increasing confidence in the quality of medical advice being given.
  • Created clinical decision support rules to manage diabetes and breast cancer screening results.

ALLINA MEDICAL CLINIC – Family Physician – Richfield, MN; 1999-2009

• Served a diverse patient population from infancy to geriatrics.
• Improved care of patients with diabetes, coronary vascular disease, and hypertension.
• Assisted partners in the transition to Epic, coaching them to more efficient use of this popular EMR.

REGIONS MEDICAL CENTER – Family Medicine Resident – St. Paul, MN; 1996-1999

• Trained in a high-acuity acute care hospital with a broad patient population.
• Excellent intensive care/coronary care unit, general medical/post surgical ward exposure.

Boston Scientific (formerly Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated) – Electrical Engineer – Arden Hills, MN; 1989 – 1991

• Developed software to display sequential electrical potentials in 3-D, recorded from a beating heart. This aided development of defibrillation electrodes.
• Remains in use currently (R. Salo Phone conversation circa January 2016).

Education

• M.D. – University of Minnesota Medical School
• B.S. Electrical Engineering – University of Minnesota Institute of Technology

Technical Skills

Certifications

• American Board of Preventive Medicine in Clinical Informatics (12/16/2016)
• Physician Builder – Analytics Certification – Epic 2017
• American Board of Family Medicine-MOC
• MN Board of Medical Practice (7/2019)
• Basic Life Support-pending
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support-pending

Publication

S.D. Anderson, G. Cornelissen, F. Halberg, “Age Effects upon the Harmonic Structure of Human Blood Pressure”.  Proc Second Ann I.E.E.E. Symp Compu Based Med Syst.