Herb Kaizer

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine

Contact Information

Mail: Stanford Medical Informatics
Stanford University School of Medicine
251 Campus Drive, MSOB X-215
Stanford, California 94305-5479
Phone: 650 498 4516
Fax: 650-725-7944

Education and Past Positions


1951	A.B., Psychology, Boston University
1956	Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Boston University
1956-1960	Human Engineering with IBM and TRW Corporations
1965	M.D. Stanford University School of Medicine
1965-67	Resident in Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
1967-69	Research Fellow in Microbiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1969-70	Clinical Fellow in Hematology/Oncology, M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute
1970-83	Assistant Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1983-97	Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Center, Rush Medical College
1985-97	Coleman Foundation Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics, Rush Medical College

Summary of Past and Present Career Activities

I have had three separate careers. Following completion of my doctoral degree in experimental psychology, I worked in the area that at that time was called human engineering (today it would be called HCI). The work focused on large-scale man machines systems being developed for the Department of Defense. Although I was fascinated by the potential of general-purpose computers (even at this early time involving huge machines using vacuum tube switching circuits and bulky magnetic core memory), the level of knowledge regarding human behavior provided little expertise to optimize the interfaces between computers and the personnel destined to operate these systems. I, therefore, decided to switch careers to medicine.

Following medical school and postgraduate training, I remained in academic medical centers focusing on clinical investigations for the treatment of cancer. The majority of that work was in the area of high dose therapy and stem cell transplantation in both children and adults. A more detailed description of that work is contained in the selected publications listed below.

In 1997 I made my final career switch, combining my early fascination with computers and my experiences in protocol directed care of patients. Rush Medical College generously provided me with a terminal sabbatical to become a visiting scholar at Stanford Medical Informatics. Following that year, I have remained as a resident expert with the Knowledge Modeling Group at SMI. The last three publications in the list below illustrate some of the research activities in which I have engaged during that time.

Selected Publications

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Last updated 11/19/99. Created and Maintained by Louisa crosby.