Andrew Kanter, MD, MPH, FACMI, FAMIA

Dr. Kanter received his bachelors degree in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, his Masters in Public Health and MD degrees from Harvard, and undertook a visiting scholar appointment and fellowship in Medical Informatics and Health Information Systems at Cambridge. He spent 12 years with a private medical informatics company where he helped develop the Healthmatics electronic health records system, in addition to providing medical terminology and consulting services to other electronic medical record companies. He was chief operating officer, president and chief medical officer of Intelligent Medical Objects, Incorporated. Dr. Kanter returned to academia at Columbia University where at the time of his election to the College he was an Assistant Professor of Clinical Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology. Dr. Kanter has led the implementation of the Millennium Villages Global Network, an open source information system based on the OpenMRS electronic medical records system that links together clinics of the Millennium Villages Project in ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This project employs a structured, common data dictionary mapped to reference terminologies that enables interoperability between the different sites and the eventual creation of a multinational, multilingual data warehouse of patient-level data for 500,000 people in rural Africa. These efforts to advance global health informatics and bring the benefits of information technology to the most needy is recognized by his election to the College.