Key Personnel

C. Greg Hagerty, PhD (cgreg@simpal.com)

Senior Research Scientist
  (Decision Support System Specialist & Intelligent Software Generalist)
  SimPal Decision Systems
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine
  UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
[CV/Publications]

Frank Sonnenberg, MD (sonnenbe@umdnj.edu)

Chief Medical Officer
  SimPal Decision Systems
Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems
Professor of Medicine
  UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Affiliates / Partners

Associates / Pals

Casimir Kulikowski, PhD (kulikows@cs.rutgers.edu)

Board of Governors Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University

Selected Publications

• Featured Articles
• Kattan MW, Yu C, Wells BJ, Hagerty CG. A Web-based Prediction Model Deployment Application. The 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (October 18-21, Hollywood, CA, 2009), Medical Decision Making 2010, in press. [Abstract] [Poster]
• Hagerty CG, Sonnenberg FA, Knoll M, Levine O, Sinha A. Decision Support for the Developing World: A Portable Health Policy Model for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination. The 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (October 20-22, Philadelphia, PA, 2008), Medical Decis Making 2009; 29 (1): E44. [Abstract] [Pagesize Poster] [Fullsize Poster]
• Hagerty CG. Stochastic Medical Decision Making. (Kattan MW, Ed.) Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. August 2009.
• Hagerty CG, Sonnenberg FA, Pickens DS, Kulikowski CA. Conversion of Text to a Hypertext Markup Language. U.S. Patent 7,373,597, Issued May, 2008. [PDF]
• Hagerty CG, Sonnenberg FA. A Modular Open-Format Decision Model Representation and Presentation Methodology. The 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (October 21-24, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007), Medical Decision Making 2008; 28: E32. [Poster]
• Hagerty CG, Pickens DS, Chang J, Kulikowski CA, Sonnenberg FA. Prediction in Annotation Based Guideline Encoding. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Symposium (Washington, DC). 2006;314-318. [PDF]
• Sonnenberg FA, Hagerty CG. Computer-Interpretable Clinical Practice Guidelines - Where are we and where are we going? Computer-Interpretable Clinical Practice Guidelines: Where are we andwhere are we going? (Haux R and Kulikowski C, eds.) Yearbook ofMedical Informatics 2006. Methods Inf Med 2006; 45 Suppl 1:145-158.
• Hagerty CG, Sanders GD, Sonnenberg FA. Elephant Nodes Save The Day: More Efficient Cost Effectiveness Evaluation Of Strategies Involving Embedded Decisions. The 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (October 21-24, San Francisco, CA 2005), Medical Decision Making 2006; 26: E54. [Abstract] [Poster]
• Sonnenberg FA, Hagerty CG, Acharya J, Pickens DS, Kulikowski CA. Vocabulary Requirements for Implementing Clinical Guidelines in an Electronic Medical Record: A Case Study. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symp 2005: 709-13. [PDF]
• Sonnenberg FA, Burkman RT, Speroff L, Westhoff C and Hagerty CG. Cost-effectiveness and contraceptive effectiveness of the transdermal contraceptive patch. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2005 Jan;192(1):1-9. [Abstract]
• Hagerty CG, Chang J, Pickens DS, Kulikowski CA, and Sonnenberg FA. Semi-Automated Encoding of Guidelines. Medinfo 2004. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 2004 (San Francisco, CA). Amsterdam: IOS Press; 2004: 1625. [Abstract] [Poster]
• Sonnenberg FA, Burkman RT, Hagerty CG, Speroff L, Speroff T. Costs and Net Health Effects of Contraceptive Methods. Contraception 2004;69:447-459. [Abstract]
• Sonnenberg FA, Hagerty G, Price MJ, Neslusan C. Is Evra, a transdermal, once-weekly, combined contraceptive patch,cost-effective compared to combined oral contraceptives? Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care 2004;9 (suppl 1):142.
• Sonnenberg, FA, Hagerty CG, Price MJ, Neslusan C. How much does unintended pregnancy cost the UK health care system? Presented at the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 7th Annual European Congress (25-26 October 2004, Hamburg, Germany).
• Hagerty CG. Data Abstraction and Analysis using Qualitative Scaling. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University, January 2002. [PDF]
• Kulikowski CA, Hagerty CG, Pickens D, Sonnenberg F. Intelligent Systems for Clinical Guidelines. Proceedings EUNITE Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Patient Care (Adlassnig KP ed), Vienna, October 2001, pp. 19-25.
• Hagerty CG, Pickens D, Kulikowski CA, and Sonnenberg FA. HGML: A Hypertext Guideline Markup Language. Proceedings of the AMIA 2000 Fall Symposium, American Medical Informatics Association, 2000;:325-9. [Abstract] [PDF]
• Hagerty CG, Kulikowski CA, Muchnik I, and Kim S-H. Two indices can approximate four hundred and two amino acid properties. Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control/Intelligent Systems and Semiotics, 1999:365-369. [Abstract] [PDF]
• Sanders GD, Hagerty CG, Sonnenberg FA, Hlatky MA, Owens DK. Distributed dynamic decision support using a web-based interface for prevention of sudden cardiac death. Medical Decision Making, 1999;19(2):157-166. [Abstract] [PDF]
• Sonnenberg FA, Hagerty CG, and Kulikowski CA. An Architecture for Knowledge-based Construction of Decision Models. Medical Decision Making, 1994;14(1):27-39. [Abstract]
• Hagerty CG, Zimmerman DE, and Kulikowski CA. ACONS: A System of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction for Configuration Tasks, in Houstis, E.N. and Rice, J.R., ed., Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Symbolic Computing, North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1992, pp. 408-415.
• Hagerty CG, Zimmerman DE, and Kulikowski CA. Distributing Constraint Satisfaction for Configuration Tasks, Rutgers University, LCSR-TR-304, 1990.