R. Scott Evans, MS, PhD, FACMI

R. Scott Evans, MS, PhD FACMI, worked at Intermountain Healthcare for 38 years and as a Medical Informatics Director for the last 8 years. He continues to be a professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Evans' experience and interests include the design, development, implementation and evaluation of computerized decision support tools to improve patient care through the selection and management of appropriate antimicrobial agents, computer methods to identify and reduce adverse drug events, adverse medical device events, and venous thrombolytic events, computerized methods to identify patients needing isolation, with obstructive sleep apnea, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ECG critical events, heart failure and computerized methods to identify and reduce hospital-acquired infections and report notifiable diseases. Dr. Evans believes 99% of medical errors that lead to patient harm, result because someone did not have all the information they neededÖwhen the needed it. He and his teams role has been to work directly with clinicians and provide them the information they need, when they need it and how they want it. He is the recipient of many awards in the medical informatics field, including the Priscilla M. Mayden Award in 1993 for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Medical Informatics, the Oslers Cloak Award for Excellence in Caring and Curing at Intermountain Healthcare in 1997, the Investigator of the Year Award from Intermountain Healthcare in 2011, the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in 2011 and the 2019 Scientific Legacy of Life Award from Intermountain Healthcare. An author of over 155 peer reviewed papers and book chapters published in the medical informatics and clinical domains and a reviewer for over 20 journals. Dr. Evans is also the recipient of the Best Paper on an Application Award from the Computer Applications in Medical Care Annual Symposium in 1992 and the Distinguished Poster Award at the AMIA Annual Meeting in 2005. He was elected into the American College of Medical Informatics in 1997 and was on the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association from 2010-2015 and elected as treasurer on the Board Executive committee. He is a former member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, a former committee member of the Identification and Prevention of Medication Errors Committee of the Institute of Medicine and was a Vice Chair in 2008 and the chair of the 2011 AMIA Annual Symposium. Dr. Evans earned a BS degree in Zoology in 1974 and a MS degree in Microbiology/Parasitology in 1976 from Brigham Young University and his PhD in Medical Biophysics in 1984 from the University of Utah School of Medicine.