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James Kaufman received his Ph.D. in Physics from UCSB, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A. He joined IBM research in 1985. He is Manager on IBM Amaden Laboratory. He is Eclipse Committer and Project lead for the Spatio Temporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM) Project. He also works on the International Modeling Efforts based on STEM, Public Health Information Exchange, OptimalGrid, The Social Contract Core, Tempus Fugit, etc. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He is a distinguished Scienctist of the ACM. He is “Master Inventor” of IBM.

His selected Publications and Proceedings

1. Edlund S, Kaufman J, Lessler J, Douglas J, Bromberg M, Kaufman Z, Bassal R, Chodick G, Marom R, Shalev V, Mesika Y, Ram R, Leventhal A. 2011. "Comparing Three Basic Models for Seasonal Influenza," Epidemics, August 2011, 3(3):135-142. doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2011.04.002 [1]
2. Edlund, S., Davis, M., Kaufman, J. "The Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler", accepted ACM Digital Library and 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, November 11-2, 2010 Arlington, VA
3. centennial article: Bigus, J.P, et al.; , "Information technology for healthcare transformation," IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol.55, no.5, pp.6:1-6:14, Sept.-Oct. 2011. doi: 10.1147/JRD.2011.2160684
4. Ford DA, Kaufman JH, Mesika Y. 2011. "Modeling in space and time: a framework for visualization and collaboration." In D Zeng et al. (eds), Infectious Disease Informatics and Biosurveillance, Integrated Series in Information Systems, 2011, Volume 27, Part 2, 191-206, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6892-0_9
5. Kaufman J, Edlund S, Douglas J. 2009. Infectious disease modeling: creating a community to respond to biological threats. Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases, Vol 1, Issue 1, Article 1. The Berkeley Electronic Press. (Featured Article in First Issue of New Journal)
6. Lessler J, Kaufman JH, Ford DA, Douglas JV. 2009. The cost of simplifying air travel when modeling disease spread. PLoS ONE 4(2): e4403. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone. 004403.
7. Edlund S, Bromberg M, Chodick G, Douglas J, Ford D, Kaufman Z, Lessler J, Marom R, Mesika Y, Ram R, Shalev V, Kaufman J. 2009. A spatiotemporal model for influenza. eJHI, in press.
8. Edlund S, Bromberg M, Chodick G, Douglas J, Ford D, Kaufman Z, Lessler J, Marom R, Mesika Y, Ram R, Shalev V, Kaufman J, 2009. A spatiotemporal model for influenza. HIC 2009, Canberra, Australia, August 19-21, 2009. http://www.hisa.org.au/system/ files/u2233/hic09-2_StefanEdlund.pdf. Selected as one of the “top rated publications” in HIC conference
9. Kaufman J, Edlund S, Bromberg M, Chodick G, Lessler J, Mesika Yossi, Ram R, Douglas J, Kaufman Z, Levanthal A, Marom R, Shalev V. 2009. Temporal and spatial effects of lunar calendar holidays on influenza A transmission in Israel. Presented at Epidemics 2, Athens, Greece, December 2009.
10. Hulse CL, Conant JL, Kaufman JH, Edlund SB, Ford DA. 2009. Development and utilization of a spatial and temporal modeling system to investigate disease outbreaks in Vermont. PHIN 2009 (A best poster in conference)
11. Renly S, Kaufman J, Ram R. 2009. Improving disease surveillance capabilities in IHE health information exchanges. IADIS eHealth Conference, Algarve, Portugal, June 2009.
12. Renly S, Knoop S, Kaufman J, Ram R. 2008. Creating CDA R2 laboratory reports to meet public health surveillance requirements. IHIC2008 (Best case study)