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Dr. Fackler is an Associate Professor within the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He trained in pediatrics, anesthesiology, and pediatric critical care at Hopkins and later joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston. While at Children’s, Dr. Fackler and Dr. Kohane founded the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program. Dr. Fackler supported many projects funded by grants including the NIST-ATP Voyager Project Infrastructure for the electronic medical record; the NIH-NLM project: Multi-platform Internet access to multimedia EMRS; the NICHD-SBIR project: Display software to explore time-oriented clinical data; and the SpaceLabs Medical project: Creation of a neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation workstation, ‘smart alarms’, and ‘smart displays. Work during the latter grant produced a cable which received a Patent for Smart Plug, a universal medial device interface. Dr. Fackler returned to Hopkins in 1997 as Director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program and Respiratory Therapy. He continued to his academic work in respiratory failure and informatics. Much of Dr. Fackler’s research and interest lies in the introduction and maintenance of knowledge-based automation in critical care and electronic medical record systems. Dr. Fackler has published more than 50 academic manuscripts. In 2002, Dr. Fackler joined the Cerner Corporation in a critical care development role where he rose to Vice President. In 2006, he returned to academia full-time to focus on advanced hospital operations technologies and clinical practice at Hopkins. He remains a consultant for Cerner, has served on advisory boards for Mallinckrodt and Hoffman-La Roche and currently sits on the advisory board of Cardiopulmonary Corporation. Dr. Fackler is a member of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, the American Medical Informatics Association, and the Society for Critical Care Medicine, where served as the chairman of electronic communication committee. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Virtual PICU. He received his medical degree from Rush Medical College in Illinois and his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Illinois. | 