Lawrence Fagan

Dr. Fagan has over 30 years of experience in the development and management of computer applications for medical care (medical informatics). He retired in 2012 as Senior Research Scientist and Co-Director of the Stanford Biomedical Informatics Training Program. At Stanford, he helped develop artificial intelligence/expert systems technology for medical applications. He directed a team that developed one of the earliest cancer data management systems, as well as novel knowledge acquisition interfaces for describing the structure of cancer clinical trials. He has extensive experience with graphical user interfaces for structured data entry of clinical notes. He has worked with natural language processing systems for the National Cancer Institute to translate cancer medical records into structured information.

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Dr. Fagan consults with law firms regarding patents in the areas of biomedical information processing and computer science. His resume includes more than 100 citations related to computer application to medicine, and co-editorship of one of the leading informatics textbooks. He holds two patents related to semantic information retrieval of structured information from medical textbooks.

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Dr. Fagan's undergraduate training was in Interdisciplinary Science (Artificial Intelligence) at M.I.T, his PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University, and his MD at the University of Miami. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.