Douglas S. Bell, M.D., Ph.D.

Douglas S. Bell, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, in the Department of Medicine at UCLA; and Informatics Core Investigator

UCLA School of Medicine
Med-GIM & HSR
911 Broxton Plaza 1st Floor
Box 951736
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736

Phone: (310) 794-3168
Fax: (310) 794-0732
Email: Dbell@mednet.ucla.edu

Education

Dr. Bell has an M.D. from Harvard Medical School , and a Ph.D. in health services research from UCLA. He completed residency in internal medicine at Stanford and he also completed a 3-year National Library of Medicine-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship in medical informatics in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program.

Research Interests

Dr. Bell's research focus is on understanding the effects of health information technology (HIT), with particular interests in electronic prescribing, online education, and the digital divide.

Selected Publications

  1. Bell DS, Greenes RA. Evaluation of UltraSTAR: Performance of a collaborative structured data entry system. In: Ozbolt J, ed. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, 1994: 216-22
  2. Bell DS, Pattison-Gordon E, Greenes RA. Experiments in concept modeling for radiographic image reports. J Am Med Informatics Assoc 1994;1(3):249-62.
  3. Bell DS. Decision-analytic valuation of clinical information systems: Application to an alerting system for coronary angiography. In: Masys DR, ed. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Symposium. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, 1997:173-7. (on MEDLINE: Proc Amia Annu Fall Symp)
  4. Bell DS, Fonarow GC, Hays RD, Mangione CM. Self-study from web-based and printed guideline materials. A randomized, controlled trial. Annals of Internal Medicine 2000; 132(12):938-946.
  5. Bell DS, Mangione CM, Kahn CA. Randomized Testing of Alternative Survey Formats Using Anonymous Volunteers on the World Wide Web. In press: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
  6. Bell DS, Daly DM, Robinson P. Is there a digital divide among physicians? A geographic analysis of information technology in physician offices. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Sep/Oct 2003; 10(5):484-93.
  7. Bell DS, Cretin S, Marken RS, Landman AB. A conceptual framework for evaluating outpatient electronic prescribing systems based on their functional capabilities. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Jan 2004
    ;11(1):60-70.
  8. Bell DS, Marken RS, Meili RC, Wang CJ, Rosen M, Brook RH. Recommendations for comparing electronic prescribing systems: Results of an expert consensus process. Health Affairs 2004; W4 (Jan-June Supplement): 305-317.
  9. Greenberg MD, Ridgely MS, Bell DS. Electronic prescribing and HIPAA privacy regulation. Inquiry, in press.
  10. Straus SE, Green M, Bell D, Badgett R, Davis D,
    Gerrity M, Ortiz E, Shaneyfelt TM, Whelan C, Mangrulkar R. Evaluation of evidence-based health care educational interventions: Conceptual framework.
    BMJ, in press.

HONORS AND AWARDS

1988 Research Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/NIH Research Scholars Program
1990 Harvard Medical School , Honors in a Special Field: Neuroscience
1994 First Prize, Student Paper Competition, American Medical Informatics Association, Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care
1998 Distinction, UCLA Department of Health Services Doctoral Qualifying Examination
1999 Nominee, Best Poster Award, AMIA Annual Fall Symposium