The interview: Warner V. Slack, MD, Keystroke Clinicians

Name: Warner V. Slack, MD Age: 66. Occupation: Co-President, Center for Clinical Computing, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Education: Undergraduate, Princeton University; medical degree, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Career Highlights: 1970, Co-chief, division of clinical computing, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; 1980, Co-chief, division of clinical computing, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; 1985, founding fellow, American College of Medical Informatics; 1989, Editor-in-chief, M.D. Computing; 1997, Authored Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Health Care, Jossey-Bass. E-mail address: wslack@bih.harvard.edu For more than three decades, Warner Slack, MD, has turned his talents to one mission only: tapping the tremendous potential of computers in medicine. As the co-founder of Harvard University’s Center for Clinical Computing (Slack hates the term ‘medical informatics’), he and colleague Howard Bleich built one of the most comprehensive, computer-based medical information ...

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