Duane Steward, D

curriculum vitae

Duane Steward, D.V.M., M.S.I.E., Ph.D., Fellow A.A.V.I.

Current Position:

Principal Bioinformatics Engineer, SAIC

610 Sycamore Street

Suite 205

Celebration, Florida 34747

Office Telephone: (321) 939-7912

Cellular Telephone (preferred): (407) 230-6081

Home Telephone: (407) 671-3458

duane@medg.csail.mit.edu

Personal

Married 30 years, 22 year old son, 19 year old son

50 years old Excellent health 6'1" 170 pounds

Previous Positions Held

Senior Director, Gartner, Inc., Maitland, FL 2/2001-1/2003

Director New Products, CTO, AssetStream Corporation, Woburn, MA 12/1999-2/2001

Senior Software Engineer, Project Lead, WebCT (formerly Universal Learning Technology, Inc.) 4/1999-11/1999

Visiting Scientist, Clinical Decision Making Group, Laboratory for Computer Science, M.I.T. 1998-1999

Research Associate, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, New England Medical Center 1998-1999

Consulting Software Developer, Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital 11/1998-4/1999

Left successful practice to enter National Institutes of Health Research Training in Medical Informatics, 1994-9/1998.

Sole proprietor of At Home Veterinary Services in Tallahassee, Florida, 1983-1994

Clinician/Manager at Camelot Veterinary Hospital, Bellevue, Florida, 1981-1982

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma.; Ph.D. Sept. 1998

Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology (HST), Cambridge, MA

Fellowship with Clinical Decision Making Group.

Division of Clinical Decision Making, Informatics and Telemedicine

New England Medical Center, Boston, Ma.; informal fellowship.

Coll of Eng., Fla State Univ, Tallahassee, Fl.; M.S.I.E. Dec. 1994; Computer Science minor

Coll of Vet Med, University of Fla., Gainesville, Fl.; D.V.M. 1980

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl; B.S. 1976 Biology Major

Professional Appointments

Advisory Board Member; Veterinary Technologist Program; St. Petersburg College 2001

Program Committee Chair for Talbot Symposium on Veterinary Informatics at the American Veterinary Medical

Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, Md. 1998

American Academy of Veterinary Informatics (Charter Fellow, Advisory Board) 1993

American Association of Housecall Veterinarians (Founding Board Member) 1990

Chaired Session at Delta Society Conference at Eastern States Veterinary Conference: "Pets Helping People” 1988

Co-Chairman Fla. Vet. Med. Assoc. Committee on the Human-animal bond 1988

Teaching Experience

Mentoring and in-house training of Software Engineers and Developers at AssetStream, Gartner, SAIC

MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunity Project supervisor for 7 students 1997-8

Lecturer on "Web Search Engines" and "Applied Simulation In Aquaculture" at annual AquaVet program in Woods Hole May 1996-8.

Speaker at North American Veterinary Conference on "Simple Software Tools that are Useful to the Veterinary Practice", & "Integrating software 'Extras with your Practice Management Software" Jan 1993 Orlando. By request. (proceedings)

Course Coordinator of "Successful Use of Information Technology in Veterinary Medicine", Online Continuing Education course of Veterinary Information Network Sept 1994, Oct 1995.

Biology for non-majors - laboratory as a Senior at FSU 1976

Volunteer Training for Pet-facilitated Therapy (Monthly lecture)

Lectures on Human/Animal Bond to Big Bend Vet. Med. Soc. and other local (to Tallahassee) groups

Speaker at Delta Society/ComForT miniconference on Human/Animal Bond May 1991 Tallahassee

Interested in teaching problem solving techniques to my sons and tomorrow's leaders.

Research

Requirements Acquisition for Software Development, Needs Assessment, Functional and Design Specification methods for Information Technology.

Axiomatic Design in software development cycles, needs analysis and project management.

Currently developing a patient outcomes reporting tool (prototype) implemented in Java, Eudora and the Java Expert System Shell (JESS) for use with electronic medical records.

Currently developing a patient preference assessment tool implemented in Java and the Java Expert System Shell (JESS) for use on the World Wide Web.

Developed components of a graphical interface for query generation and visualization in J++, XML and MS SQL Server 7 for use with the Partners Healthcare of Boson clinical data warehouse.

Comparison of Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Quality of Life Assessments Using the Individualized Multidimensional Quality of Life Methodology.

Comparison of Traditional Utility Assessment Methods with the Individualized Multidimensional Quality of Life Methodology for Outcomes of Stroke.

Doctoral Dissertation: Utility Assessment Based on Individualized Patient Perspectives.

Master's Thesis: The Application of Simulation to the Design & Operation of Veterinary Practice.

Interests: Patient Preference Modeling and Elicitation; Machine Learning; Simulation; Decision Support Theory Implementation; Problem definition and problem driven solutions as opposed to technology driven solutions

Areas of Knowledge

Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, Scheme/LISP, FORTRAN, Basic, Pascal, NewtonScript

Enterprise and Client-Server programming: J2EE, SOA, EJB, JMS, JavaMail, JAAS, LDAP, JDBC and ODBC

Database: MySQL, Hibernate, Oracle, MS SQL SERVER 7, MS Access, Enable; Relational Database Design

Web Tools: Axis, Web Services, SOAP, HTML, CSS, JSP, JavaScript

Platforms: Windows (3.1x, 95, 98, NT), Mac OS, OS/2 Warp, and UNIX

Enterprise Information Technology Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services

Client-side and Server-side applications of Java and the Java Expert System Shell (JESS).

Principles and application of Axiomatic Design (Suh, Tate) to software development.

Experience with Boston based start-up company (2) including project management and Internet e-commerce.

Decision Analysis and Utility Theory supported by familiarity with Decision Maker and TreeAge Software.

Author of a paperless veterinary medical record system during the mid 1980’s;used in housecall practice as part of a portable veterinary workstation consisting of integrated computer-aided diagnostics, lab report integration, searchable proceedings from recent conferences, appointment scheduler and anesthesia logging.

Experienced with the application of simulation programming (event and process models) to business and medical practice leading to a Masters degree thesis. Integration of expert systems with simulation included.

Experienced System Administrator with Windows, Mac, Unix and OS/2 Warp integrated workstations.

Technical skills

Requirements Acquisition for Software Development, Needs Assessment, Functional and Design Specification methods for Information Technology.

Axiomatic Design in software development applied to software engineering and project management.

Currently developing a patient preference assessment tool implemented in Java and the Java Expert System Shell (JESS) for use on the World Wide Web.

Induction of Decision Trees and Expert System Rules as an area of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Use of Quinlan C4.5 algorithm and Support Vector Networks for induction.

Experienced Windows NT/2000/XP System Administrator with Mac, Unix and OS/2 Warp integrated workstations.

Author of a paperless veterinary medical record system during the mid 1980’s; used in housecall practice as part of a portable veterinary workstation until left practice for an informatics fellowship. Workstation integrated computer-aided diagnostics, lab report integration, searchable proceedings from recent meetings, appointment scheduler and anesthesia logging.

Computer programmer familiar with multi-tier Internet-based architectures, Service Oriented Architectures, distributed client-server applications, Windows, OS2/Warp and Macintosh/Apple operating systems. Experienced in writing programs in Java, J2EE, XML, HTML, JESS, Scheme, NewtonScript, PowerScript, MProlog, C, Slamsystem/Slam II, FORTRAN, Pascal. Experienced in CFR21 Part 11 and GxP regulated validation compliance for FDA. Experienced with Software Development Life Cycle development and project management.

Graduate college coursework in knowledge-based systems, theory of algorithms, programming languages, numerical optimization, operations research, simulation, analysis of variance, automation, expert systems, and artificial intelligence; as well as other undergraduate industrial engineering subjects (including statics, dynamics, robotics, manufacturing processes, statistics, eng. math).

Key non-technical skills

Educable

Experienced speaker

Symposium program chair

Informatics course coordinator

Instructor - traditional and on-line

Recognized leader in veterinary informatics professional circles

Publications

Standridge, Charles R. and Steward, Duane. Using Expert Systems for Simulation Modeling of Patient Scheduling, Simulation, September, 2000.

Steward, Duane and Tate, Derrick. Integration of Axiomatic Design and Project Planning, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Axiomatic Design, June 2000 (by invitation).

Steward, Duane. Y2k and Your Practice: Steps to Prepare for 2000, Supplement to Compendium on Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian, Vol 21, No 8(F), 1999 (by invitation).

Steward, Duane and Meyer, Klemens, MD. Feasibility of Systematically Using Patient Terminology in Utility Assessment, submitted to AMIA Fall Symposium, 1999.

Steward, Duane. Utility Assessment Based on Individualized Patient Perspectives, Doctoral Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1998.

Steward, Duane and Davis, Mark. Qualification of Discordant Responses in Utility Assessment, accepted to AMIA Fall Symposium.

Steward, Duane. Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Decision Analysis for Veterinarians, Convention Notes of the AVMA Annual Convention, AVMA, July, 1998.

Steward, Duane. Utility Assessment Based on Individualized Patient Perspectives, Proceedings of the Spring Symposium on Interactive and Mixed-Initiative Decision-Theoretic Systems, AAAI, March, 1998.

Steward, Duane. What is Computer-Aided Diagnosis?, in Murtaugh RJ, Ferguson D, Pion P (ed), Seminars In Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Small Animal), May, 1996.

Steward, Duane. The Clinician Computer, in Murtaugh RJ, Ferguson D, Pion P (ed), Seminars In Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Small Animal), May, 1996.

Steward, Duane and Standridge, Charles R. The Application of Simulation to Veterinary Practice Management, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Mar. 15, 1996.

Steward, Duane and Standridge, Charles R. Demonstrations of the use of Simulation in Veterinary Practice Management, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Mar. 15, 1996.

Steward, Duane and Standridge, Charles R. A Veterinary Practice Simulator Based on the Integration of Expert System and Process Modeling, Simulation, March, 1996.

Steward, Duane, What is Your Clinic Staff's Computer Skills Inventory?, Veterinary Forum, Sept. (1994).

Steward, Duane, It Can Make A 'Horse of a Difference', Veterinary Forum, Oct. (1993).

Steward, Duane, Information Wars, Veterinary Forum, Sept. (1993).

Steward, Duane, At Home Veterinary Services bimonthly newsletter to clients, Jan. 1984 - June 1994.

Invited Talks

"Websites: The Good, the Bad and the ugly", Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Veterinary Medical Association, March 1999 (notes in proceedings).

“Choosing Today What Will Work Tomorrow Based on Yesterday’s Needs” [Minimal functionality for veterinary medical record systems], Central Veterinary Conference, 1999.

"Y2k: How to get over it", Annual Meeting of the American Veterinary College of Internal Medicine, Annual Convention of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Central Veterinary Conference and Wild West Veterinary Conference, 1999.

"Medical Informatics, Y2k+n, and YU Care, IMHO", Grand Rounds of the Veterinary Information Network, AOL, 4/25/1999.

"Clinical Data Warehousing; Where to begin?”, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C., 3/9/1999.

"A Proposed Method for Utility Assessment that Explicitly Includes the Patient Perspective", Center for Outcomes and Policy Research, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, 11/19/1996.

"Digital Publishing, Expert Systems and Computer-aided Diagnostics", Conference: "Towards a Veterinary Medical Records Model for the 21st Century," Advanced Veterinary Systems, Denver, Colorado, 11/2/96.

"Simple Software Tools that are Useful to the Veterinary Practice” & "Integrating software 'Extras with your Practice Management Software", North American Veterinary Conference, Orlando, Florida 1/93 (proceedings).