Daren Thomas Nicholson, M.D., C.M.

Multi-dimensional medical informatician with clinical background and strong technical and writing skills. Experienced in design, implementation, and testing of software systems.

Sujansky & Associates, San Carlos, CA.
Associate Consultant
Manage projects and write reports.

ICW America, San Mateo, CA.
Product Manager
Designed and marketed web-based, health IT applications.

• Initiated a campaign to componentize our flagship product, resulting in approval by the corporate board and significant boost to morale company-wide.
• Pioneered the use of Flex, which led to its adoption by 100% of the product lines.
• Chosen to lead preparation and execution of a $120,000 exhibit at the HIMSS08 conference.
• Re-engineered product demonstration process, thereby increasing availability and reliability of product demos and greatly improving sales staff satisfaction.
• Designed and implemented series of informational sessions to solve communication problem between corporate headquarters in Germany and the US offices.

Omnimedix Institute / Northwest Health Foundation, Portland, Oregon.
Consultant
Collaborated on policy and research initiatives concerning personal health records (PHRs).

• Wrote and edited policy reports and presentations for Connecting for Health (a collaborative group of health information technology stakeholders convened by the Markle Foundation).
• Organized virtual expo for the Connecting Americans to Their Health Care Conference 2006, which included over 20 web-based PHRs.
• Introduced the use of new technologies (eg, wikis, VoIP, etc.), which significantly improved our ability to collaborate both internally and externally.

Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska.
Adjunct Faculty Member
Developed a curriculum for an online course that initiates students to the US health care system.

Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation, Portland, OR.
Consultant
Designed and administered a survey of electronic health record usage by clinics in Oregon.

Advanced PsychSystems, Portland, Oregon.
Intern
Designed, coded, and tested a system that converts input from an automated patient interview into a narrative report for use by health care providers.

Nanshan Foreign Language School, Shenzhen, China.
English Teacher
Taught English and French to public school students.

Federal Reserve Bank of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Analyst
Improved business processes in Savings Bonds Department via a series of special projects.

• Doubled administrative efficiency by automating several documentation procedures.
• Selected to participate on design team to re-architect all Savings Bonds software applications.
• Appointed to lead Y2K preparation. Achieved 0% error rate among department's systems.

Ernst & Young, LLP, Chicago, Illinois.
Transfer Pricing Consultant
Advised multinational corporations seeking to conform with transfer pricing laws and regulations.

• Tested E&Y's proprietary transfer pricing software and found several significant bugs.
• Conducted extensive industry and company research.
• Prepared transfer pricing documentation for clients.

Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
Masters of Biomedical Informatics

• Awarded National Library of Medicine Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Medical Informatics.
• Research interests: consumer health informatics, systems implementations.
• Capstone project: An Evaluation of the Quality of Consumer Health Information on Wikipedia.

McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
Doctorate of Medicine (M.D., C.M.)

• Awarded entrance scholarship.
• Granted summer research bursary (design and validation of a PDA-based system for capturing costs of trauma care).
• Informatics research elective.
  • Reconstructed a 3D model of a human middle and inner ear from an MRI scan.
  • Created an online tutorial based on the 3D model.
  • Conducted a randomized controlled study to assess the educational efficacy of the 3D model.

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
BA, Economics and French

• Graduated magna cum laude.
• Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

Francois Andry, Larry Freeman, John Gillson, John Kienitz, Michelle Lee, Goutham Naval, Daren Nicholson. Highly-interactive and user-friendly web application for people with diabetes. IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems. July 2008;118-120.

Nicholson D, Chalk C, Funnell WRJ, Daniel S. Can virtual reality improve anatomy education? A randomised controlled study of a computer-generated three-dimensional anatomical ear model. Medical Education. November 2006;40(11):1081-7.

Nicholson D, Hersh W, Gandhi T, Weingart SN, Bates DW. Medical errors: not just a few "bad apples." Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management. February 2006;13(2):114-115.

Nicholson D. Chiu W. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: a case-study and review of the literature. Geriatrics. August 2004;59(8):36-41.

Languages: English (first language), French (fluent) and elementary Mandarin Chinese.

Software knowledge

• Skilled in creating web sites via HTML/CSS coding.
• Extensive use of Microsoft Office programs including significant experience creating Access databases and coding in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
• Experienced in basic Java and Ruby on Rails programming.
• Proficient at writing SQL statements.
• Familiarity with cutting-edge web technologies like Flex, AJAX, widgets, portlet servers, etc.