Providence

How clinicians use information to help patients:
(Biomedical Informatics, Evidence Based Medicine, Patient Safety and Medical Error)

National/Regional Responsibilities:

Secretary, American Medical Informatics Association,
Chair, Education Working Group AMIA

AMIA Representative to AAMC Council of Academic Societies

Physicians for a National Health Program - advocating publicly funded, privately delivered health care for everyone.

Representative Publications:

Hazlehurst B, Gorman PN, McMullen CK. Distributed cognition: An alternative model of cognition for medical informatics. Int J Med Inform. 2008 Jun 5;77:226-34.

Jimison HB, Gorman PN, Woods S, Nygren P, Walker M, Norris S, et al. Barriers and Drivers of Health Information Technology Use for the Elderly, Chronically Ill, and Underserved. Evidence Report/Technology AHRQ. 2008.

Xiao Y, Ho D, Vaidya V, Gorman PN, Hazlehurst B. Three angles on rounds: Understanding communication in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 52nd Annual Meeting; 2008 Sept 22-26; New  York NY: HFES; 2008.

Gorman PN. Measuring the care of the patient in context [editorial]. Med Decis Making. 2007 Nov-Dec;27(6):724-5.

Hazlehurst B, McMullen CK, Gorman PN. Distributed cognition in the heart room: how situation awareness arises from coordinated communications during cardiac surgery. Journal of biomedical informatics. 2007 Oct;40(5):539-51.

Current Research:

Evaluation of Small Practice eDesign Project (for California Healthcare Foundation)

"RxSafe: Shared Medication Management and Decision Support for Rural Clinicians" (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Paul Gorman, Principal Investigator)

 "Supporting Rapid Transfer of Information and Responsibility" (National Science Foundation, Paul Gorman, PI).

Evidence Report on Screening and Treatment of Subclinical Thyroid Disease (for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality).

Teaching Responsibilities:

Precepting one day a week in PMGNE clinic.

Attending on inpatient services OHSU University Hospital.

Principles of Clinical Medicine with OHSU second year students.

Personal Interests:
I have a wonderful family.  I spend most of my time with them.  To clear my head I like to tempt trout with a fly.

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