David Hansen

CEO

Contact

Australian e-Health Research Centre
Level 5 - UQ Health Sciences Building
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital

Tel: +61 7 3253 3610
Mob: 0419 646 108
Fax: +61 7 3253 3690
Email

Themes

• Health Services
• P-Health Neuro Degenerative Diseases

Projects

• Health Information Environment
• Health Information Systems
• Cancer Information Processing and Reporting

Science Area

• Semantic Data Management

Biography

Dr David Hansen is Chief Executive Officer of the Australian E-Health Research Centre. As CEO, David leads the research programs of the AEHRC, a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government.

Researchers and engineers at the AEHRC are experts in areas such as clinical terminology (ontology) engineering; database and data integration technology; clustering and analysis of patient data; analysis and manipulation of biomedical images; delivery of healthcare interventions using mobile computing platforms; developing systems for medical training
and natural language processing of medical records.

The AEHRC has an active policy of translating its research innovation into outcomes for patients and healthcare professionals by working closely with some of the best practitioners and hospitals across Australia.

Dr Hansen joined CSIRO in 2004 to lead a team of researchers developing software for linking, integrating and analysing health data to bring together information from medical records held in different databases. This research led to the development of current research programs in clinical terminology and natural language processing. From 2008-2011 David was the e-Health Theme Leader for the CSIRO ICT Centre and worked to build the research from the AEHRC nationwide.

Prior to joining CSIRO, Dr Hansen spent seven years leading development of the Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) at LION Bioscience Ltd in Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK). SRS is the leading genomic data and tool integration software used by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and research institutes worldwide. Before joiniing LION Bioscience David was a scientific programmer at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK, and a scientific programmer, Bioinformatics Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

David's technical research interests include data integration, data summarisation, indexing and querying technologies, meta data and ontologies, health informatics and bioinformatics. As leader of the Australian E-Health Research Centre David has additional research interests in the adoption of e-health technologies and the organisational changes which are required to support this adoption.

Academic Qualifications

2011	MBA, University of Queensland
1994	PhD Australian National University, Chemistry
1990	B. Sc. (Hons) University of Queensland
1989	B. Sc. University of Queensland

Recent Professional Experience

2011-present	CEO, Australian E-health Research Centre, ICT Centre, CSIRO
2008-2011	e-Health Theme Leader, CSIRO ICT Centre, CSIRO
2004-2008	Research Team Leader, Australian E-health Research Centre, ICT Centre, CSIRO
2001-2004	Development Manager, LION bioscience, Cambridge UK
1998-2001	Senior Software Engineer, LION bioscience, Cambridge UK
1998	Software Engineer, European Bioinformatics Institute
1996-1997	Programmer, Bioinformatics Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Other Highlights

2011	Selected to participate in a joint UQ-Wharton Business School project as part of his MBA
2009	Selected for CSIRO Leading the Research Enterprise Program

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Grants

2009	Emergency Medicine Research Foundation Grant with Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital
2009	Cancer Australia Gynaecological Oncology Data Reporting Project
2006	Smart State Queensland Innovation Projects, Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics

Student Supervision

2005-Present	Zim Chan, PhD, Queensland University of Technology
2008-Present	Sankalp Khanna, PhD, Griffith University
2008-Present	Shaffinaz Abd Raman, PhD, University of Queensland

Science Citizenship

2011	Co-Chair, Scientific Program Committee, Health Informatics Conference
2010	Chair, Scientific Program Committee, Health Informatics Conference
2009	Scientific Program Committee, Health Informatics Conference
2007	Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Application for Digital Ecosystems

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
Hansen, D. P., Gurney, P., Morgan, G., & Barraclough, B. (2011). The Australian e-health Research Centre: Enabling the health care information and communication technology revolution. Medical Journal of Australia, 194(4), S5-7.
Hansen, D. P., Kemp, M. L., Mills, S. R., Mercer, M. A., Frosdick, P. A., & Lawley, M. J. (2011). Developing a national emergency department data reference set based on SNOMED CT. Medical Journal of Australia, 194(4), S8-S10. Health Informatics Conference 2008: Frontiers of Health Informatics 19-21 Aug, pp42
Nguyen, A. N., Lawley, M. J., Hansen, D. P., Bowman, R. V., Clarke, B. E., Duhig, E. E., et al (2010). Symbolic rule-based classification of lung cancer stages from free-text pathology reports, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 17, 440-445.
David Edwards, Jason Stanjich and David Hansen, Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications, Springer, 2009
Pang, C., Gu, L., Hansen, D., and Maeder, A.(2009) ‘Privacy-preserving Fuzzy Matching Using A Public Reference Table’, Springer Special Volume in Intelligent Patient Management 23 - 26 Mar 2009, Intelligent Patient Management Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 189, 2009.
Zhang, Q. & Hansen, D. (2007), 'Approximate Processing for Record Linking and Multidatabase Analysis', The International Journal of healthcare Information systems and Informatics (IJHISI) 2 (4), 59-72.Intelligent Patient Management Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 189, 2009.
David P. Hansen, C. P. & Maeder, A. "HDI: Integrating Health Data and Tools", Journal of Soft Computing, 2007, 11, 361-367.
David P Hansen and Thure Etzold. “Integrating and Accessing Molecular Biology Resources”. Bioinformatics – From Genomes to Drugs Volume 2, Editor Thomas Lengauer. September 2001.
Hansen D. and Evans D.J., “A parallel algorithm for nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of shear flow on distributed memory machines”, Mol. Sim., 13, 375-393 (1994).
Butler B.D., Hanley H.J.M., Hansen D. and Evans D.J., “Dynamic scaling in an aggregating 2D Lennard-Jones system”. Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, 4468-4471 (1995).

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