Donald P. Connelly, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
612-624-4689
don@umn.edu

Dr. Connelly is Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Director of the Health Informatics Division, Co-Director of the NLM Training Program, and Director of the Informatics Core of the University's Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center's caBIG point of contact. His research has focused on clinical decision making related to effective laboratory testing and the development of information technology tools that clinicians choose to use in support of their patient care activities. Currently, he is Principal Investigator of an AHRQ Health Information Technology Implementation Grant focused on the exchange of a clinical record abstract among health system EHRs in a community. He serves on the Minnesota e-Health initiative Advisory Committee and the University's Knowledge Management Task Force. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters and is the editor of three books. In 1994 his clinical informatics research group implemented the world's first Web-based laboratory results reporting system to support day-to-day patient care activities. He is a member of the College of American Pathologists Information Science and Technology Committee and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, a founding member of the American Medical Informatics Association, and was named the 2003 Honorary Fellow of the Association for Pathology Informatics.

Educational Background

• University of Minnesota (1971), M.D.
• University of Minnesota (1977), Ph.D.
• University of Minnesota Medical School (1975), Internship/Residency (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)

Board Certification

Clinical Pathology

Research Activities

• Principal Investigator, A Community-shared Clinical Abstract to Improve Care
• Co-principal Investigator, MN Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics – Prostate Cancer Project
• Co-principal Investigator, Research Training in Medical Informatics
• Director, Informatics Shared Resource, University of Minnesota Cancer Center
• Member, Minnesota e-Health Initiative Advisory Committee

Professional Memberships

• Admissions Committee, National Library of Medicine Medical Informatics Training Program, Health Computer Sciences
• ASCP
• CAP
• ACLPS
• AMIA
• ACMI
• IEEE

Publications

Dr. Connelly has widely written in the areas of health informatics.  His publications are on: integrating legacy laboratory information systems into a client-server world; the use of clinician workstations to improve laboratory use; the deployment of medical information systems onto the Internet; the closing of the clinical laboratory testing loop with information technology; improvements in the display of clinical microbiology results with a Web-based information system; the use of informatics for outcome prediction; the integration of laboratory information into delivery systems, and the role of the clinical data repository for point of care testing.

Dr. Connelly is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology and a reviewer for Clinical Chemistry, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and JAMA.

• Connelly DP. Critical pathways, clinical practice guidelines, test selection and ordering. (In) Ward-Cook K, Lehmann C, Schoeff L and Williams RH (eds) Clinical Diagnostic Technology: The Total Testing Process, Vol. 1. Washington: AACC Press, 2003, pp 47-63.
• Raman S, Harris IB, Connelly DP, et al. Evaluation of the implementation of an electronic medical record. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2003, 979.
• Connelly DP (2002) Using web technologies for implementing testing strategies. Clinic Lab Med 22:1-17.
• Connelly DP (2002) To dream the invisible dream. Minn Physician 15(12):22-3.
• Connelly DP (1999) Integrating integrated laboratory information into integrated delivery systems. Clin Lab Med 19:277-97.