Pathology Research Brochure

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Division of Informatics

Email remiller@jhmi.edu

Phone (410) 955-5429

Robert E. Miller, M.D.
Director, Division of Informatics
Primary Appointment in Pathology; Secondary Appointment in Biomedical Engineering
Member, Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering

The explosive growth of the World Wide Web has recently been accompanied by similar growth in the use of Web browsers and servers for internal corporate and other organizational networks. Use of Web technologies for intranets provides new communications and data retrieval tools that can change how organizations work. My interests are in the use of Web tools for client-server computer applications in health care and integration of heterogeneous clinical systems, secure communication of confidential patient data, and techniques for implementing text-only Web servers on legacy computer systems. Specific applications in pathology include laboratory test ordering and reporting, image management for teaching, clinical consultation and teleconferencing, and search strategies for large databases.

Publications

Miller RE. Computer-based indexing. In: Hutchins GM (ed.), Autopsy Performance and Reporting. CAP Autopsy Committee. College of American Pathologists, Northfield, Illinois, pp 174-180, 1990.
Stoffel K, Saltz J, Miller R, Dick J, Merz W, Hendler N. Semantic Indexing for Complex Patient Grouping. 1997 AMIA poster presentation, abstract in Symposium Proceedings, publication in Extended ProceedingsCD-ROM.
Ferreira R, Moon B, Humphries J, Sussman A, Saltz J, Miller R, DeMarzo A. The Virtual Microscope. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium, Nashville, TN, 1997, pp. 449-453.

Email	nbarkerj@jhmi.edu
Phone	(410) 955-3843
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Norman J. Barker, M.S.

Director, Pathology Photography Laboratory
Primary Appointment in Pathology; Secondary Appointment in Art as Applied to Medicine
Member, Graduate Program in Medical and Biological Illustration

The staff members in Photography and Graphic Arts and I are always glad to provide personal consultation about use of specialized imaging techniques and equipment that investigators require for conducting experiments and presenting their findings.

Publications

Barker NJ, Foster G. Photographing small archaeological objects in color. J Field Archaeology :369-375, 1996.
Barker NJ, Zahurak M, Olson JL, Nadasdy T, Racusen LC, Hruban RH. Digital Imaging of Black and White Photomicrographs: Impact of File Size. Am J Surg Photography 22:1411-1416, 1998.
Barker, N.J., Using Macro In Large Format,View Camera Magazine, Jan/Feb 2000 : 30-37
Barker NJ, Foster G. High Magnification Photo, Photo Techniques, pp.40-42, April, 2002.
Barker N.J., Gross Specimen Photography,(Chapter), In: W.H. Westra, R.H. Hruban, T.H. Phelps and C. Isacson, 2nd ed. Illustrated Manual for the Dissection of Surgical Pathology Specimens, New York:Springer-Verlag, Second Edition, 2003

Email	slai1@jhmi.edu
Phone	(410) 614-4837

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Shenghan Lai, M.D., M.P.H.

Primary Appointment in Pathology

My research interests include: (1)infectious disease epidemiology; (2) HIV prevention and intervention; (3) cardiovascular consequences of HIV infection and cocaine abuse; (4) disease disparities in minorities; (5) drug abuse; (6) statistical modeling; (7) data mining.

Publications

Alegria M, Vera M, Shrout P, Canino G, Lai S, Albizu C, Marin H, Pena M, Rusch D. Understanding hard-core drug use among urban Puerto Rican women in high-risk neighborhoods. Addict Behav 2004;29(4):643-64.
Ren S, Yang S, Lai S. Intraclass Correlation Coefficients and Bootstrap Methods of Hierarchical Binary Outcomes. Stat Med 2004, accepted.
Tong W, Lima JA, Meng Q, Flynn E, Lai S. Long-term cocaine use and cardiac diastolic dysfunction: an echocardiographic study. Int J Cardiol 2004;97:25-28.
Tong W, Lai H, Yang C, Ren S, Dai S, Lai S. Age, gender and metabolic syndrome-related coronary heart disease in US adults. Int J Cardiol 2004; accepted.
Lima JA, Desai MY, Steen H, Warren WP, Gautam S, Lai S. Statin-induced cholesterol lowering and plaque regression after 6 months of magnetic resonance imaging-monitoring therapy. Circulation 2004; 110(16):2336-41.