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David Robinson MB BS, MSc, MBA
I was born 6th May 1955 in Grappenhall, Cheshire, England
Having lived in a number of places including Malta, Aden and Tristan da Cunha, various part of England. I now live in Loweswater in Cumbria. Both sides of my family come from this little known village.
I was married in 1981 to Barbara very tolerant, likes work, singing & crap television barbara@loweswater.com .
Laura (born 1983) busy being a professional and learning about horses. Graduated 2005 started work August 2006 :-)
Andrew (born 1986) likes computer games, computer games, football & football, Manchester United supporter :-( graduated Durham University now having gap year.
Education & Qualifications
Merchant Taylors School Northwood, Middlesex, England 1968 - 1974
St Bartholomews Hospital Medical College University of London, 1974 - 1979, Graduated MBBS 1979
The Open University: 1993 -1995 , Diploma of Computing
De Montfort University Leicester, England, 1995 -1997, MSc with Distinction; Computing with Medical Informatics, 1997
The Open University: 2000 - 2005 MBA (Technology Management)
Employment
1981 - 1984: General Practice Training, Basingstoke Hampshire
A typical training scheme including posts in: Accident & Emergency, Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology followed by a year in a busy ten partner town practice.
1984 -1985: Medical Officer, Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic
This post was for a year providing total medical (& some dental) care for the 300 inhabitants of one of the remotest islands in the world. A high prevalence of Asthma almost certainly genetic, but exacerbated by viral infections passed on from visiting ships, was the most notable medical aspect, although there were some other conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa, and evidence of old toxoplasmosis. I instituted a cervical screening program during my stay.
1985 -1994: General Practitioner, Birstall, Leicestershire, England
A busy seven partner practice in a predominantly suburban area. Whilst there I was responsible for setting up the Child Health Surveillance program.
1994 - 2002: Senior Medical Coding Consultant, NHS Information Authority (subsumed NHS Centre for Coding & Classification)
An interest in computing led me to this post, initially on a sabbatical. My work at the NHSCCC is with the Read Codes, a hierarchically arranged coded thesaurus of clinical terms, and later the SNOMED Clinical Terms collaboration with the College of Americam Pathologists. Areas of responsibility within terminology include co-ordination of feedback, and the administration and pathology sections of the thesaurus. Outside terminologies I have had responsibilty for the NHSIA clinical communications programme, including the GP to GP record transfer, and I have also been involved in the PRIMIS project and have represented the NHSIA at HL7. Areas of technical interest include object oriented modelling (Objectory, UML) and programming (Borland Delphi), relational database systems and SQL programming (Microsoft Access and Oracle RDBMSs).
2002 - 2005: Head of Healthcare Informatics, Westlakes Research Institute, Cumbria, England
Building on established expertise in Genetics and Medical statistics, this organisation provided additional research, education and consultancy in Health and Social Informatics , activites include postgraduate education, continuing professional development, and consultancy in clinical terminology, (Read code maintenance, SNOMED CT and the dictionary of medicines & devices, and electronic records in this expanding area.
2005 - 2007: Clinical Terminology Director, Accenture Services UK,
Within Accenture I was responsible for terminology within application rolled out in the NHS. The role also included input into data migration and quality issues, education and training.
2007: Clinical Terminology Director, CSC Alliance
CSC have taken over the contract for the North East and East Clusters within the NHS Programme for Information Technology
Other positions held
Associate Lecturer, The Open University, M358 Relational Databases 1999-2003
Communications Officer, The British Association of Clinical Terminology Specialists
Publications
Robinson DB, Schulz EB, Brown PJB, Price C. Updating the Read Codes: User-Interactive Maintenance of a Dynamic Clinical Vocabulary. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol4; No.6 Nov/Dec 1997 pp 465-472.
Robinson DB, Price C. The Read Thesaurus: Achieving compatibility with LOINC. In Richards B (Ed) Conference Proceedings. Current Perspectives in Healthcare Computing. Harrogate 1998; p444.
Wanger KM, Millar JM, Bentley TE, Robinson DB, Brown PJB. The Read Thesaurus: a Structured Clinical Terminology for Community Healthcare. Proceedings of 7th National & 5th International Conference on Information Technology & Community Health. Victoria. British Columbia; 8-5 to 8-9.
Robinson DB, Wanger KM, Price C. The Clinical Terms and ICPC: Identifying Equivalence and Enabling Compatibility for "Non-Medical" terms. Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Conference of the Primary healthcare Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (Cambridge, UK 11-12 September 1998).
Wanger KM, McDermitt N, Robinson DB. Coding and Immunisation against Infectious Disease: An Effective Combination. Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Conference of the Primary healthcare Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (Cambridge, UK 11-12 September 1998 in press).
Robinson DB, Price C, Brown PJB. Clinical Administration Procedures in the Read Thesaurus: Extending the ENV 1828 Model to Support Regional Terminology Requirements. In Chute CG. (Ed) Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association 1998 Annual Fall Conference Orlando,USA 1998 pp 840-5.
Robinson DB, Price C, Brown PJB, Jones R, O'Neil M. Representing Laboratory Test Findings: Relating the Read Thesaurus to LOINC and the CEN ENV 1614 Prestandard. In Chute CG. (Ed) Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association 1998 Annual Fall Conference Orlando,USA 1998 p 1063.
Robinson DB, Reid S. Clinical Terms seminars: Delivering focused education for the service. The British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management November 1999 16:9; pp 26-28.
Bentley TE, Robinson DB. The Role of Clinical Terminologies in Supporting the NHS Information Strategy, Information for Health. In Waegemann P.(Ed) Toward An Elctronic Health Record Europe '99 November 1999; pp 86-93.
Robinson DB, Holland M, Pill S. Supporting a set of Read-coded terms for use in pathology messaging. Journal of Informatics in Primary Care February 2000; pp 8-11
Robinson DB, Pill S, Apperley N, Jones R, Holland M EDIFACT Messaging: Enabling Laboratory to General Practitioner Exchange of Pathology Reports.In Overhage M. (Ed) Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association 2000 Annual Fall Conference Los Angeles,USA 2000 p 1118
Robinson DB The History and Structure of the Clinical Terms Version 3 (The Read Codes). Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Medical Informatics, 2001 pp 784-787
Robinson DB, Emberson J The Headings for Communicating Clinical Information project. British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management, Dec 2001 Vol 18 Number 10
Membership of Organisations
The British Medical Association
The American Medical Informatics Association
The British Association of Clinical Terminology Specialists
The British Computing Society
Interests & Leisure
Cycling, mountaineering, computing & gardening
Most sports, but no longer football - disillusioned by the greed and excess money that is killing the game - when will those running the game wake up? More interested in rugby and cycling as these are real sports where athletes, not overpaid preening posers, put their bodies on the line.
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