Teaching in an Era of Ubiquitous Information Topic of Lecture

As part of the HSC Chancellor’s Lead­er­ship Forum, UNM Health Sci­ences Library and Infor­mat­ics Cen­ter presents, “Edu­cat­ing Health Pro­fes­sion­als in the Era of Ubiq­ui­tous Infor­ma­tion,” with speaker Charles “Chuck” Fried­man, Mon­day, Dec. 17 from 9:30–11 a.m. in the Domenici Cen­ter for Health Sci­ences Edu­ca­tion, room 2410, on UNM’s north cam­pus. Every­one is wel­come to attend.

The lec­ture is a reprise of a highly acclaimed talk that Fried­man gave at a recent national meet­ing of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­i­can Med­ical Col­leges. He is pas­sion­ate about the sub­ject of putting tech­nol­ogy to good use in aca­d­e­mic health centers.

“The great hockey player Wayne Gret­zky once said that the secret of his game is to skate where the puck is going to be,” Fried­man said. “In my talk, I will out­line a vision of where the ‘infor­ma­tion puck’ for health is going to be and how pro­grams to edu­cate health pro­fes­sion­als can ‘skate’ there. I am con­cerned that the pro­grams that are cur­rently in place are skat­ing to where the puck used to be.”

Fried­man is a pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan School of Infor­ma­tion, and direc­tor of its Health Infor­mat­ics pro­gram. He has authored a well-known infor­mat­ics text­book and serves as asso­ciate edi­tor for the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Infor­mat­ics Asso­ci­a­tion. Pre­vi­ously, he held exec­u­tive posi­tions at the Office of the National Coor­di­na­tor for Health IT in the U.S. Depart­ment of Health and Human Services.

To read more about Friedman’s expe­ri­ence, visit http://www.si.umich.edu/people/charles-friedman.