SivaramArabandi

= Sivaram Arabandi =

Sivaram Arabandi, MD, MS Clinical Informatics Ontopro LLC Houston, TX

Education

 * 1992 MBBS, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India
 * 1996 General Surgery, Health University, Hyderabad, India
 * 1999 MS in Computer Science, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

Ontology / SemanticWeb relevant Experience

 * 2004 - 2006 Consultant, Knowledge Engineering, Noteworthy Medical Systems, Cleveland, OH
 * 2006 - 2009 Consultant, SemanticDB Project, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 * 2009 - 2010 Consultant and Co-Investigator, PhysioMIMI Project, CWRU, Cleveland, OH
 * 2010 - 2011 Clinical Scientific Advisor, Abzooba Inc., San Francisco, CA
 * 2011 - 2011 Visiting faculty at National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD
 * 2011 - 2012 Director, Smart Content Strategy, Elsevier Health Sciences
 * 2011 - current
 * Clinical Scientific Advisor, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
 * 2012 - current
 * Clinical Informatics Consultant, Ontopro LLC

Ontology related work

 * 1) Ontology for General Medical Science: http://code.google.com/p/ogms/
 * 2) Infectious Disease Ontology: http://infectiousdiseaseontology.org
 * 3) Computer based Patient Record (CPR) Ontology: http://code.google.com/p/cpr-ontology/
 * 4) Sleep Domain Ontology: https://mimi.case.edu/concepts
 * 5) Ontology of Medically Related Social Entities: http://code.google.com/p/omrse/
 * 6) Ontology for New Born Screening and Translational Research (ONSTR): http://code.google.com/p/onstr/

Publications

 * 1) Semantic Integration of Clinical Data for Outcomes Research and Reporting - 2007 AMIA Annual Conference.
 * 2) Developing a Sleep Domain Ontology - 2010 AMIA TBI/CRI Summit, San Francisco.
 * 3) VISAGE: A Query Interface for Clinical Research - 2010 AMIA TBI/CRI Summit, San Francisco.
 * 4) Segmenting and Merging Domain-specific Ontology Modules for Clinical Informatics - 2010 Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), Toronto, Canada.
 * 5) Mapping multi-institution data sources to domain ontology for data federation: the PhysioMIMI approach - 2011 CRI Summit, American Medical Informatics Association, San Francisco
 * 6) Graph-Based Methods for Discovery Browsing with Semantic Predications - AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011; 2011: 15141523. PMCID: PMC3243228
 * 7) "ClinicalKey: Terminology driven Semantic Search" - demo at ICBO 2012, Graz, Austria

Synergistic Activities

 * 1) Organizer of "Building Ontologies for Clinical and Translational Research, NCBO Tutorial and Workshop 2011", Emory University, Atlanta, GA,  http://ontology.buffalo.edu/11/Tutorial_Atlanta_2011.htm
 * 2) Program Committee member of 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) 2012, Graz, Austria   http://kr-med.org/icbofois2012/index.htm
 * 3) Co-chair of "Methods for adverse events representation Ontology and Information Model workshop" at ICBO 2012, Graz, Austria
 * 4) Publicity Chair of 4th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) 2013, Montreal, Qc, Canada    http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/ws/icbo2013/index.html