Curriculum Vitae

Richard George Lasslo

Address

 

Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCD Medical Center

Sacramento, CA  95819

Internet:  e-mail:  rglasslo@ucdavis.edu        website:  http://cim.ucdavis.edu/users/rick

OBJECTIVE

 

Career combining Family Practice and Medical Informatics

Professional experience

 

2001 – Present   Resident Physician, UC Davis Department of Family and Community Medicine

Combined Family Practice/Medical Informatics Program. Planned completion date June 2005

3/2000 – 3/2001   UC Davis Department of Family and Community Medicine

Researcher – Congestive Heart Failure Home telemedicine Study-Dr. Jerant, Investigator

1987 - 1995           Hewlett-Packard, Mountain View, California               

Software Development Engineer - Lead developer and project leader of product support engineering applications.  Experience with Unix/Windows operating systems, networks, and communication

1984 - 1987          Varian Associates,  Palo Alto, California                       

Senior Engineer - Lead developer in nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer software

1981 - 1984          AT&T Bell Laboratories   Holmdel, New Jersey           

Member of Technical Staff - Software developer of satellite communication software

Education

 

2001- 2003        UC Davis Medical Informatics Graduate Program, MS degree planned 2003

1995- 2001        University of California, Davis Medical School, MD degree June 2001

1986- 1989        Stanford University, Computer Science, Graduate Courses in Computer Science

 

1979-1981                  University of California, Davis, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

                 Thesis: An Innovative Microcomputer Data Acquisition System for Long Duration Experiments               

1974-1979                  University of California, Davis, B.S. in Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering

AWARDS AND GRANTS

 

Culpepper Research Grant: $25,000 for Virtual Patient Project – 1999

 

Hewlett-Packard Equipment Grant: $156,000 for the Virtual Patient Project – 1998

 

Lange Medical Publication Award for outstanding achievement – 1997

 

Hewlett-Packard Equipment Grant: $122,000 for improving medical student web access – 1996

Websites

 

Lasslo, R., Jerant, A.F., “Congestive Heart Failure Study Website”,  1999,  URL  http://cim.ucdavis.edu/CHF ; Developed to describe the CHF study being conducted by Dr. Tony Jerant in the Department of Family Practice UCDMC

 

Lasslo, R., “UC Davis School of Medicine Medical Student Website”,  Webmaster and Founder, 1997,  URL http://cim.ucdavis.edu; Used by medical students to share notes, web pages for student organizations, student run clinics, personal web pages, student activities, palm pilot site, international clerkship information, etc

Papers, Presentations

 

 

Richard Lasslo, MS MD, John Keltner, MD, Gary Henderson, PhD., "Virtual Patient/Eye Simulator - Evolution of a futuristic teaching tool"; Abstract/Poster/Deomnstration presented at the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium 2002, in San Antonio, TX


Lasslo, R., Gross, D., M.D.
, “Web/Shockwave-Based Neurological Eye Motion Simulator”;  Abstract/Poster/Demonstration presented at the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications EDMEDIA 1999 in Seattle, WA

 

Lasslo, R., Henderson G., PhD ,    “From Desktop to Webtop: Using an Inexpensive Desktop Windows NT System and a Combination of Powerful Tools (Access Database, WebSite, Cold Fusion, and JavaScript) to Develop a Web-based, Interactive Pharmacology Question Bank”;  Presented at the Computers in Healthcare Education Symposium in Tampa Florida  June 1998

 

Lasslo, R., “Innovative Use of Client/Server Architecture in System Support”; Paper #2052, INTEREX Conference Proceedings, Volume 1,  presented at the INTEREX  Hewlett-Packard Users Conference, New Orleans, 1992

Lasslo, R., Maljy, W. “Innovative Real Time Clocks for Micro Computers”;  Abstract presented at the Biomedical Conference, University of California, Davis, 1980

COMPUTER MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

 

Neurological Eye Simulators (http://cim.ucdavis.edu/eyes) a teaching tool used by medical schools world-wide to aid in the teaching of eye neurology and pathology

Eye Simulator Version 2.0 – (http://cim.ucdavis.edu/vp) latest release of the eye simulator that contains pupillary response simulator, narrated animated demonstrations of neurological testing, expanded quiz sections, and a new case-based simulator for simulating realistic patient cases

Pharmacology question Bank – (http://medocs.ucdavis.edu/QB/pharmacology/index.html)
a question bank application used by the UC Davis medical school pharmacology course

 

Biochemistry question Bank – (http://medocs.ucdavis.edu/QB/Biochem410B/index.html) a question bank application used by the UC Davis medical school Biochemistry course

Organizations

 

California Academy of Family Practice Student Chapter (CSAFP):  Officer – Secretary  1999-2000

 

UC Davis Computers in Medicine Student Organization:  Founder and President since 1997

 

AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association):  Member since 1996

 

AACE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education): Member since 1996

 

CAFP Student member since 1998

 

AMA Student member since 1995

Extra curricular activities and Hobbies

 

Volunteer graduate course teacher, Department of Medical Informatics, UC Davis

 

Webmaster of the UC Davis Medical Student website assisting medical student related webpages and assisting other students in developing websites.

 

Teacher and Dancer of Latin, Swing  and Ballroom

 

 

 

Completed  10/25/2002