Kenneth W Scully, M.S.

Lecturer
Database Administrator, Clinical Data Repository (CDR)
Clinical Informatics
M.S., Computer Sciences, University of Colorado

P.O. Box 800555
Tel: 1-434-982-4035
Fax: 1-434-982-4030
Email: kws9s@virginia.edu
Health System West Complex Room 3236

Expertise:

Languages: Java, C, JavaScript, Perl, Python, SQL, Fortran, Ratfor, RPGII, HTML.
Some: Ruby, SAS, C++, BAL, Pascal, Cobol.

Operating systems: Linux, Unix, Windows, DOS, MVS, VM, CMS, MPE

Databases: MySQL, Sybase, Empress, Access, Unify, Image.
Some: Postgres, FileMaker, Informix.

Other: Tomcat, Velocity, JSP, Ant, J2EE, CSS and many others.
Some: Cold Fusion, PHP.

Research Interests:

Clinical Informatics

  • Health data integrity and integration,
  • Health data presentation
  • Algorithms for identifying and extracting patient populations from a health data warehouse

Database Applications
Software Systems Design and Development
Linux System Administration
Data Warehousing

Other Information:

APPOINTMENTS
  • 1996-present    Database Administrator and Technical Lead for the Clinical Data Repository (CDR) project.
    Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA.
  • 1994-1995    Manager Unix Support and Systems Analyst.
    Department of Information Technology and Communication, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
  • 1989-1993    Senior Software Engineer and Associate Scientist.
    Office of Field Project Support, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO.
  • 1973-1989    Manager Systems Support, Manager Manufacturing Applications, Systems Analyst
    NBI, Inc., Boulder, CO.
  • 1977-1981    Manager of Data Processing, Manufacturing Programmer Analyst
    General Cable Company, Westminster, CO.
  • 1973-1977    Programmer Analyst
    Channing L. Bete Company, Greenfield, MA.

Recent Publications

J Lyman, J Schorling, N May, K Scully, N Sarafian, M Nadkarni, J Voss
Customizing a Clinical Data Warehouse for Housestaff Education in Practice-Based Learning and Improvement.
JAMIA Symposium Proceedings, 2005.

Kenneth W. Scully MS, Rodney K. Riddle PhD, Mohan Nadkarni MD, Jason A. Lyman MD.
Defining Diabetes in a Clinical Data Warehouse.
MedInfo Conference Proceedings, 2004.

Kenneth W. Scully, MS, Jason A. Lyman, MD, George J. Stukenborg, PhD.
Improving Quality Measurement using Multiple Data Sources
JAMIA Symposium Proceedings, 2003.

Jonathan S. Einbinder, MD, MPH, Kenneth W. Scully, MS, Robert G. Sawyer, MD.
Existing Data Resources as Reference Standards for a Clinical Data Warehouse.
JAMIA Symposium Proceedings, 2002.

Schubart JR, Lyman J, Scully KW, Einbinder JS, Knaus WA.
User-centered Design of a Web-based Tool for Medical Residency Training.
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2002.

Jonathan S. Einbinder, MD, MPH, Kenneth W. Scully, MS.
Using a Clinical Data Repository to Estimate the Frequency and Costs of Adverse Drug Events.
JAMIA Symposium Proceedings, 2001.

Kenneth W. Scully, MS, Christopher L. Middleton, MS, Robert D. Pates, PhD, Jonathan S. Einbinder, MD, MPH.
Using a Clinical Data Repository to Estimate the Frequency and Costs of Adverse Drug Events.
JAMIA Symposium Proceedings, 2001.

Kenneth W. Scully, MS, Jane R. Schubart, MBA, MS, Jonathan S. Einbinder, MD, MPH.
Improving Search Results for Diagnoses or Procedures, Using an ICD-9-CM Clustering Standard.
JAMIA Symposium Proceedings, 2000.

Kenneth W. Scully, MS, Jonathan S. Einbinder, MD, MPH, Robert D. Pates, PhD, Robert J. Cordaro, MS, Robin M. Krumholz, MS, Jane R. Schubart, MBA, Thomas A. Spraggins, PhD, and Robert E. Reynolds, MD.
Web-Accessible Patient Data Warehouse at the University of Virginia.
JAMIA Symposium Proceedings, 1999.

Kenneth W. Scully, M.S., Robert D. Pates, Ph.D., Jonathan Einbinder, M.D., Robert E. Reynolds, M.D.
A Flexible WWW Query Interface for a Patient Data Warehouse.
JAMIA Symposium Proceedings, 1998.

Kenneth W. Scully, M.S., Robert D. Pates, Ph.D., George S. Desper, Alfred F. Connors, M.D., Frank E. Harrell Jr., Ph.D., Karen S. Pieper, M.S., Robert L. Hannan, M.D., Robert E. Reynolds, M.D.
Development of an Enterprise-Wide Clinical Data Repository: Merging Multiple Legacy Databases.
JAMIA Symposium Proceedings, 1997.

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