Iain Sanderson named CMIO of Health Sciences South Carolina
Posted: 11-13-2007 : COLUMBIA, S.C.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - – Jay Moskowitz, PhD, president of Health Sciences South Carolina (HSSC) is pleased to announce that Iain C. Sanderson, MD, FRCA, has been named Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for the statewide health sciences collaborative. As CMIO, Sanderson will lead initiatives in medical informatics across the six HSSC member organizations: Clemson University, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), University of South Carolina (USC), Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, Palmetto Health, and Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System.

Commenting on the appointment, HSSC President Jay Moskowitz, PhD, said the collaborative is fortunate to have an individual of Dr. Sanderson’s credentials as its CMIO. “As in all industries, information drives research. It is absolutely critical that HSSC’s statewide network of partners be linked by a common information technology system to ensure access to data. Dr. Sanderson and his work will be powerful enablers to the HSSC research enterprise.”

Dr. Sanderson’s appointment includes an endowed chair in the HSSC Center for Healthcare Quality (CHQ). He will have a tenured faculty appointment at MUSC along with appointments at Clemson and USC. The CHQ is one of several funded South Carolina Centers of Economic Excellence affiliated with HSSC, whose mission is to use health sciences research to advance public health and improve the economic wellbeing of the state.

Dr. Sanderson’s primary role as CMIO is to oversee the development of the information technology infrastructure, data linkages, and protocols needed for HSSC to design, develop, implement, and oversee the South Carolina Health Data and Research Portal (SCHDRP) and the HSSC Data Coordinating Center (DCC). His efforts will be critical to supporting HSSC research efforts as member organizations share data for clinical trials and clinical translational research. HSSC proposes to create a system of interoperable medical records with accurate, secure, databases that allow original research on the full spectrum of clinical services.

Sanderson comes to HSSC from Duke University, where he has served in the Department of Anesthesiology for nearly 15 years. Since 2003 he has served as associate chief information officer for the Duke University Health System, where he was responsible for clinical information systems in the perioperative areas of all the Duke-affiliated hospitals, including Duke University Hospital, Durham Regional Hospital, the Davis Ambulatory Surgery Clinic, and Duke Health Raleigh Hospital. Sanderson is the developer of a software portal, ORview, which is used more than two million times a year by staff throughout the Duke hospitals as the main means of processing operating room schedules, anesthesia records, preoperative medical visits, post operative visits, and pharmacy charges. ORview won the ComputerWorld Honor Program’s 21st Century Achievement Award for Medicine in 2006.

Sanderson earned a bachelor of arts with First Class Honors in Physiological Sciences for Medicine, Oxford University, England, where he majored in Neurophysiology, Neuropharmacology and Brain Organization. He earned his medical degree (BM, BCh) in Clinical Medicine from the Oxford University Medical School. He subsequently received a master of science in the Foundations of Advanced Information Technology from the Imperial College in London, England. He completed his residency in Anesthesiology at John Radcliffe and other Oxford-affiliated hospitals. He is board certified in Anesthesiology in the United States.

About Health Sciences South Carolina
Established in April 2004, Health Sciences South Carolina (HSSC) is a statewide public-private collaborative of universities and health systems possessing the shared vision of using health sciences research to improve the health and economic wellbeing of South Carolina. HSSC includes Clemson University, the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of South Carolina, Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, Palmetto Health, and Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System. For more information, visit www.healthsciencessc.org.