Clinical and Research
Interests
Bioinformatics
Brief Biography
Bruce A.
Friedman, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, attended Williams College, Williamstown,
Massachusetts, from 1959 until 1962, and then the University of Michigan
Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1966. Following a pathology
internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, in
1966-1967, he returned to the University of Michigan Medical School
for a four-year residency in the Department of Pathology which he completed
in 1971.
After serving
as a pathologist in the U.S from 1971 until 1973, he once again returned
to the University of Michigan Medical School as an Assistant Professor
of Pathology in 1973. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor
in 1976 and to Professor of Pathology in 1980. From 1973 until 1983,
he served as the Associate Director of the Blood Bank at the University
of Michigan Hospitals. His research interests during these years revolved
around the study of blood utilization in the United States and systems
for reducing the use of unnecessary hospital blood bank services.
In 1982,
Dr. Friedman was appointed the Director of Pathology Data Systems at
the University of Michigan Hospitals, the computing support unit of
the Department of Pathology, and he continued in this role until his retirement in 2006.
From 1996-2001 he served as Director of Ancillary Information Systems
for the University of Michigan Hospitals, which includes oversight over
the radiology, pharmacy, pathology, radiation oncology, respiratory
care, and home health information systems. He continues this effort
in a consultative role with Medical Center Information Technology.
He
is the director of a continuing education symposium on Automated Information
Management in the Clinical Laboratory (AIMCL) that is devoted to the
topic of laboratory information systems and automated information management
in the clinical laboratories, which has been held at the University
of Michigan Medical School for over 20 years. |
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