Dr.
Jill Kaufman is Program Director, Life Sciences Standards at IBM
Life Sciences. Jill directs IBM's overall standards work pertaining
to Life Sciences in organizations including: I3C, OMG-LSR, MGED,
HL7, GGF, CDISC, HL7 and DICOM.
At I3C, Jill
is co-chair of the Technical Committee. At HL7, Jill is co-chair
of the Clinical Genomics Special Interest Group, which is focused
on creating standardized interfaces to link genomic data to clinical
information. Jill also participates in the Life Sciences Research
committee at OMG and the Life Sciences Grid Research Group at
GGF. Jill has twenty years of technical and marketing expertise
in high tech industries including telecommunications, computers,
and e-commerce. Previous standards work was in telecommunications
where she was a Working Group chair and on the Board of Directors
and Vice President of The ATM Forum (asynchronous transfer mode.)
Jill has
a PhD. in Management at the University of Kent in Canterbury,
England. She has a Masters in Telecommunications from PACE University
and a B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.
