UM-IHC Hosts Its Inaugural Lunch Lecture and Networking Event
On September 30, 2024, the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC) hosts its inaugural lunch lecture and networking event at its headquarters in North Bethesda. Dr. Charles Sneiderman, M.D., Ph.D. spoke on the history of health computing, with an emphasis on Montgomery County’s role in the history.
Sneiderman, who received his bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1969 from the University of Maryland, College Park, retired in 2010 after a 31-year career in medical informatics at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health. Since leaving federal service, he developed a computerized clinical decision support system to assist primary health care practices in recognizing and managing post-traumatic stress syndromes with support from the NLM Disaster Information Management Research Center. He currently serves as volunteer medical director with the Culmore Clinic in Northern Virginia.
