Conlon, Michael
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Conlon, Michael Associate Director and Chief Operating Officer

Positions

Dr. Conlon is Associate Director and Chief Operating Officer of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Director of Biomedical Informatics, UF College of Medicine, and Principal Investigator of the NIH project “VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists.” His responsibilities include development of academic biomedical informatics, expansion and integration of research and clinical information resources and strategic planning for academic health and university research.  As PI of the VIVO project, Dr. Conlon leads a team of 120 investigators at seven schools in the development, implementation and advancement of an open source, semantic web application for research discovery. 

Previously Dr. Conlon served as Chief Information Officer of the University of Florida Health Science Center where he directed network and video services, desktop support, media and graphics, application development, teaching support, strategic planning and distance learning.  He earned his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of Florida, undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Bucknell University, and is the author of over 150 scholarly publications and presentations.  His current interests include enterprise change and organizational issues in the adoption of information technology, organization of research resources, and enterprise architecture.

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Research

research overview

  • PI on VIVO grant purposed with improving all of science by providing the means for sharing and using current, accurate and precise information regarding scientists’ interests, activities and accomplishments.

Teaching

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  • Over 150 guest lectures in Anesthesiology, Dentistry, Dietetics, Nursing, Computer Science, Business, Decision and Information Sciences, Architecture, English, Engineering, Library Science, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Public Health, Agriculture, Medicine, Surgery, Physics, Chemistry, Classics, Neonatology, Statistics, Veterinary Medicine. Topics include data for use on a computer, biomedical informatics, research discovery, enabling clinical and translational science, web site creation and maintenance, web-based clinical trials, integrated data repositories, ERP strategy, health information technology, ethics in research, and design and analysis of clinical studies.

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  • informatics, research networking, research discovery, research support, infrastructure, enterprise systems, identity management, clinical research, semantic web, electronic data capture