Gerry Segal has been the Chief
Information Architect at New York State Psychiatric
Institute (NYSPI) since 1996. NYSPI affiliated
with Columbia University and New York Presbyterian
Hospital is the oldest psychiatric research facility
in the nation with an annual research budget of
over seventy million dollars.
Mr. Segal has over 20 years experience in management
of Information systems. He has extensive experience
in electronic communications in the fields of
medical research and education and has overall
responsibility for planning and implementation
of all network-based systems at NYSPI. Current
projects include: Psychiatric Telemedicine for
Rural New York; Placing InfoButtons resources
into the New York State Mental Health Automated
Record System; and the installation of a comprehensive
network to support the demands of large scale
brain imaging research projects.
Mr. Segal is an affiliated faculty member of
the Columbia University Department of Medical
Informatics. He is presently the Chair of the
Election Committee of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM); was a participant in the 1997
Medical Informatics Fellowship Program of the
National Library of Medicine. His article “Psychiatric
Telemedicine for Rural New York” appears
in the July 2001 issue of the Journal
Psychiatric Practice. Another article
“The Computerized Medical Record”
appears in the November 1997 Issue of the
Journal of Practical Psychiatry and Behavioral
Health. |
