Ontolog Forum
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 / Semantic Web 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 for General Medical Science: http://code.google.com/p/ogms/
- Infectious Disease Ontology: http://infectiousdiseaseontology.org
- Computer based Patient Record (CPR) Ontology: http://code.google.com/p/cpr-ontology/
- Sleep Domain Ontology: https://mimi.case.edu/concepts
- Ontology of Medically Related Social Entities: http://code.google.com/p/omrse/
- Ontology for New Born Screening and Translational Research (ONSTR): http://code.google.com/p/onstr/
Publications
- Semantic Integration of Clinical Data for Outcomes Research and Reporting - 2007 AMIA Annual Conference.
- Developing a Sleep Domain Ontology - 2010 AMIA TBI/CRI Summit, San Francisco.
- VISAGE: A Query Interface for Clinical Research - 2010 AMIA TBI/CRI Summit, San Francisco.
- Segmenting and Merging Domain-specific Ontology Modules for Clinical Informatics - 2010 Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), Toronto, Canada.
- Mapping multi-institution data sources to domain ontology for data federation: the PhysioMIMI approach - 2011 CRI Summit, American Medical Informatics Association, San Francisco
- Graph-Based Methods for Discovery Browsing with Semantic Predications - AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011; 2011: 1514-1523. PMCID: PMC3243228
- "ClinicalKey: Terminology driven Semantic Search" - demo at ICBO 2012, Graz, Austria
Synergistic Activities
- 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
- Program Committee member of 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) 2012, Graz, Austria http://kr-med.org/icbofois2012/index.htm
- Co-chair of "Methods for adverse events representation Ontology and Information Model workshop" at ICBO 2012, Graz, Austria
- 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