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Suzanne Santamaria

Suzanne Santamaria, DVM, MS

Research Assistant Professor
Veterinary Medical Informatics
Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology
 
e-mail: slsantamaria@vt.edu


Education

2012 Master of Science, Veterinary Medical Informatics
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
2001 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
1997 Bachelor of Science, Animal Science
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Research Interests

  • Veterinary medical informatics
  • Collaborative biomedical ontologies
  • Standardized medical terminologies (SNOMED-CT ®, LOINC, HL7, etc.)
  • Electronic medical records and animal information systems
  • Electronic veterinary drug labels (Structured Product Label - SPL)
  • Integrating common animal groupings with the Linnaean classification system

Professional Experience

2006-present Veterinary Medical Terminologist
VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2004-2005 Veterinary Medical Officer
USDA-APHIS-Veterinary Services, SC
2003-2004 Instructor of Veterinary Technology
Front Range Community College, CO
2001-2003 Veterinary Practitioner
Mixed and small animal private practices and humane society, IN and FL

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Veterinary Informatics
    • President-Elect, 2012-2013
    • Program committee for Talbot Symposium on Informatics
  • American Veterinary Medical Association
  • Veterinary Medical License: FL

Presentations

  • Use of Ontologies in Veterinary Medicine. (2012, December). National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) Webinar.
  • AAEP Diagnostic Terms: An Equine Subset of SNOMED-CT. (2012, August). Presented at the annual American Veterinary Medical Association Convention, San Diego, CA.
  • An Animal Ontology for Veterinary Medicine. (2012, August). Presented at the annual American Veterinary Medical Association Convention, San Diego, CA.
  • Developing the Animals in Context Ontology. (2012, July). Presented at the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology. Graz, Austria.
  • The Animal Names Subset of SNOMED-CT. (2011, July). Presented at the annual American Veterinary Medical Association Convention, St. Louis MO.
  • The Electronic Drug Label – Coming to an Information System Near You. (2010, August). Presented at the annual American Veterinary Medical Association Convention, Atlanta, GA.

Posters

  • Santamaria, S.L., Green, J.M., Wilcke, J.R. Use of CmapsTools to Align SNOMED-CT® with an Authoritative Taxonomic Resource (ITIS). 20th Annual Research Symposium of the VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, Virginia. Poster Presentation. November 21, 2008.

Papers

  • White, N.A., Wilcke, J.R., Santamaria, S.L.. AAEP Diagnostic Terms: An equine subset of SNOMED-CT. American Veterinary Medical Association Convention. San Diego, CA. August, 2012.
  • Santamaria S, Fallon M, Green J, Schulz S, Wilcke J. "Developing the Animals in Context Ontology." International Conference on Biomedical Ontology. Graz, Austria. July, 2012. Awarded Best Paper of the conference by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) at Stanford University.
  • Santamaria, S.L., Zimmerman, K.L. Uses of informatics to solve real world problems in veterinary medicine. J Vet Med Educ. 2011 Summer;38(2):103-9.
  • Santamaria, S.L., Wilcke, J.R., Zimmerman, K.L. Comparing Basic and Advanced Text-Matching with Concept Mapping in Detection of Duplicates on a Text Based Diagnostic Terms List. 21st Annual Research Symposium of the VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, Virginia. Paper submission. November 20, 2009.