Health Informatics Graduate Program at the University of Minnesota

Presentation Abstract: The field of Health Informatics focuses on researching the theory and developing applications focused on the interface between health care and medicine.  The growing knowledge base of Health Informatics and its supporting fields provides opportunities for interdisciplinary research and application development to improve health care.  The University of Minnesota has a long history of research and training in Health Informatics and continues to this day with over 80 current graduate students at the Masters and PhD level.  In addition, the University is also an ONC-funded University training program for informatics which is the University Partnership for Health Informatics (UPHI) program.  

Biosketch: Terrence Adam, M.D., Ph.D. received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from South Dakota State University in 1996. He obtained a Doctor of Medicine and PhD in Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota in 2003. He continued his medical training at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale Arizona where he completed a residency in Internal Medicine in 2006, and was the Chief Medical Resident in 2007. Dr. Adam joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems. In addition to his work in the College of Pharmacy, Terrence is the Director of Graduate Studies for the University of Minnesota’s Health Informatics graduate program; he also serves patients as a Clinician Educator/Preoperative Care Physician at the Minneapolis Veteran’s Administration.  Dr. Adam’s research work includes the development of clinical information systems and their cost-effectiveness, electronic prescribing implementation evaluation and the use of clinical databases to assess the clinical significance of drug-drug interactions and assess peri-operative risk assessment and patient outcomes.