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Name Shaun Grannis
Degree MD
Specialty Family Medicine
Professional Title

Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Expertise and Research Interests

Dr. Grannis’s research interests include developing, implementing and studying technology to overcome the challenges of integrating data from distributed systems for use in health care delivery and research. His patient matching research has received recognition from the American Medical Informatics Association for outstanding contribution to the body of medical informatics knowledge.. He serves as technical co-chair for the national Health Information Technology Standards Panel’s biosurveillance workgroup to develop standards for population health information exchange. He is involved in multi-year studies that explore multiple facets of disease detection and public health surveillance challenges, including geographical de-identification, understanding temporal-spatial disease trends, and developing regional clinical reminders. He is leading a 4-year project integrating data flows from over 110 hospitals in the state of Indiana for use in disease surveillance and clinical research. He has worked with Indiana, Michigan, Texas, and other states to develop statewide data sharing initiatives. Dr. Grannis also maintains a clinical practice.

Professional Appointments

1997�2000, Resident, MidMichigan Family Practice Residency Program 1998�2000, Technology Steering Committee, MidMichigan Health 1999�2000, Clinical Informatics Committee, MidMichigan Health 2001�2004, Fellow, Regenstrief Institute Medical Informatics 2001-2004, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Family Medicine, Indiana University 2004-Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Indiana University 2004-Present, Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.

Professional Organizations

1997�Present, American Academy of Family Practice 1999�Present, Member, American Medical Informatics Association 2000�Present, Diplomat, American Board of Family Practice

Honors and Awards

2002, 1st Place, Student Paper Competition, 2002 AMIA Fall Symposium"



Publications

Cassa, CA, Grannis, SJ, Overhage, JM, and Mandl, KD (2006).
A context-sensitive approach to anonymizing spatial surveillance data: impact on outbreak detection.
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13(2):160-5.

Olson, KL, Grannis, SJ, and Mandl, KD (2006).
Privacy Protection Versus Cluster Detection in Spatial Epidemiology.
Am J Public Health.

Grannis, SJ, Biondich, PG, Mamlin, BW, Wilson, G, Jones, L, and Overhage, JM (2005).
How disease surveillance systems can serve as practical building blocks for a health information infrastructure: the Indiana experience.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc:286-90.

Grannis, SJ, Egg, J, and Overhage, JM (2005).
Reviewing and managing syndromic surveillance SaTScan datasets using an open source data visualization tool.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc:967.

Biondich, PG and Grannis, SJ (2004).
The Indiana network for patient care: an integrated clinical information system informed by over thirty years of experience.
J Public Health Manag Pract Suppl:S81-6.

Grannis, SJ, Overhage, JM, and McDonald, C (2004).
Real world performance of approximate string comparators for use in patient matching.
Medinfo 11(Pt 1):43-7.

Mandl, KD, Overhage, JM, Wagner, MM, Lober, WB, Sebastiani, P, Mostashari, F, Pavlin, JA, Gesteland, PH, Treadwell, T, Koski, E, Hutwagner, L, Buckeridge, DL, Aller, RD, and Grannis, S (2004).
Implementing syndromic surveillance: a practical guide informed by the early experience.
J Am Med Inform Assoc 11(2):141-50.

Grannis, SJ, Overhage, JM, Hui, S, and McDonald, CJ (2003).
Analysis of a probabilistic record linkage technique without human review.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc:259-63.

Hogan, WR, Tsui, F, Ivanov, O, Gesteland, PH, Grannis, S, Overhage, JM, Robinson, JM, and Wagner, MM (2003).
Detection of pediatric respiratory and diarrheal outbreaks from sales of over-the-counter electrolyte products.
J Am Med Inform Assoc 10(6):555-62.

Grannis, SJ, Overhage, JM, and McDonald, CJ (2002).
Analysis of identifier performance using a deterministic linkage algorithm.
Proc AMIA Symp:305-9.