Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD

Doug Fridsma, M.D., Ph.D.
Acting Director
Office of Standards and Interoperability
Excerpted from ONC site on June 16, 2010
“Dr. Fridsma is the acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He is currently on leave from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University and from his clinical practice at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale.

“Dr. Fridsma completed his medical training at the University of Michigan in 1990, and his PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University in 2003. His research interests include the development of computational tools to study patient safety, clinical work processes, and methods to improve model-driven standards development processes. He has served on the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Board of Directors from 2005-2008, and was appointed to the HIT Standards Committee in 2009. He recently resigned from the HIT SC to become the acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at ONC.”
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Fridsma’s responsibilities include the NHIN and NHIN Direct projects.