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Victor E Pollak MD

Emeritus Professor, University of Cincinnati

Boulder, CO

Professional summary

I have been a professor of medicine at the Universities of Illinois, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Colorado Have directed Renal Disease Divisions at Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago and University of Cincinnati. DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS: 1968 - 1991, a major effort was undertaken to develop a new information system to improve medical care, teaching, and research. From 1991 to date, effort has been devoted full-time to the advancement and implementation of the latest version of new information systems for medicine, making use of the latest information technology.

Specialties and Interests

  • Internal Medicine, 
  • Medical Informatics, 
  • Nephrology

Education

Universities

University of Witwatersrand

M.B. B.Ch., Medicine
present

University of Witwatersrand

B,A., Liberal Arts
1941 to 1943

Honors and Awards

Clinical Research Fellowship Review Panel

NIH
1984

Clinical Sciences Study Section 4 Review Committee

NIH
1984

Research Career Development Award

United States Public Health Service
1964

Established Investigator

American Heart Association
1959

Memberships

Fellow

American College of Physicians
1968

Fellow

Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh)
1965

Publications

Articles

"The importance of iron in long-term survival of maintenance hemodialysis patients treated with epoetin-alpha and intravenous iron: analysis of 9.5 years of prospectively collected data."

BMC nephrology
Vol. 10 - 2009;
PubMed ID: 19245700

"Effect of electronic patient record use on mortality in End Stage Renal Disease, a model chronic disease: retrospective analysis of 9 years of prospectively collected data."

BMC medical informatics and decision making
Vol. 7 - 2008;
PubMed ID: 18045495

"Pancreatitis in patients with end stage renal disease"

Medicine (Baltimore)
Vol. 73 - 1994; 8-20

"Computerized medical information system enhances quality assurance: a 10-year experience in chronic maintenance hemodialysis patients"

Nephron
Vol. 54 - 1990; 109-116

"Diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis: long-term observations in patients treated with ancrod."

Clin. Nephrol
Vol. 34 - 1990; 61-69

"Fibrinolysis in glomerulonephritis treated with ancrod: Renal functional, immunologic and histopathologic effects"

Quart J Med (NS
Vol. 69 - 1988; 879-895

"The computer in medicine: its application to medical practice, quality control, and cost containment"

JAMA
Vol. 253 - 1985; 464-473

"Results of treatment in patients with end-stage renal disease: a multivariate analysis of risk factors and survival in 341 successive patients"

Am J Kidney Dis
Vol. 5 - 1985; 10-18

"Glomerular thrombosis in systemic lupus erythematosus: Prevalence and significance."

Medicine (Baltimore)
Vol. 60 - 1981; 71-88

"On-line computerized data handling system for treating patients with renal disease."

Arch Int Med
Vol. 137 - 1977; 446-456

Curriculum Vitae

Disclosure or Conflict of Interest

MIQS, Inc. Founder, Shareholder, Member Board of Directors, Full time Employee

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