Don E. Detmer

Don E. Detmer is a surgeon and health informatics leader who is professor emeritus and professor of medical education at the University of Virginia. He earned his medical degree at the University of Kansas and trained at the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Duke University Medical Center. As a surgeon he helped establish ambulatory surgery in the early 1970s and served as team physician for the Wisconsin Badgers for ten years. He developed the nation's first administrative medicine program, a master degree for clinician executives, at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He chaired the 1991 Institute of Medicine study on the computer-based patient record, led the American Medical Informatics Association from 2004 to 2009, and later served as medical director for advocacy and health policy of the American College of Surgeons.