Join Date:     4/19/2005

Job Title:        Regional Clinical Data Standards Specialist

Organization:  Connecting for Health (NHS)

Country:        United Kingdom

Biography:     Jay Kola has a unique skill set with backgrounds in both clinical medicine and biomedical informatics. He has a first degree in Medicine and a Masters in Bioinformatics. He currently works in Medical Informatics and his primary interests are ontologies, terminologies and knowledge driven medical applications. He is also interested in openEHR archetypes and using ontologies to achieve data interoperability. He is well versed in medical terminologies like Snomed-CT, FMA, UMLS, etc. He is also a good Java Programmer and is also familiar with OWL,XML and Database technologies.

Skill Set Summary

• Medical Terminologies: Good Knowledge of contents and structure of Snomed CT, Galen, FMA , UMLS.
• Semantic Web Technologies: OWL(Web Ontology Language), Description Logics
• Programming Languages: Java [Java core APIs, XML (JDOM), OWL(Wonder-web API)], HTML, PERL
• Databases: SQL, Apache Derby
• Development Tools: Eclipse( Java IDE tool), Protégé ( Ontology tool), Google Web Toolkit (AJAX, Java Web services)
• Operating Systems: Windows 9x/2000/Xp, UNIX (Linux, Mac)
• Other Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, MSOffice

Tags (These are keywords that describe you and your skills):
Medical informatics, terminologies, ontologies, bioinformatics, OWL, Snomed CT, Knowledge Representation, Java programming, Health IT, Electronic medical records, Knowlegge Management, Clinical Decision Making