R. Scott Evans, PhD, FACMI

R. Scott Evans is in the Department of Medical Informatics at Intermountain Health Care and is the Director of Research for the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, LDS Hospital, and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Utah. Dr. Evans received his BS degree in Biology and MS degree in Microbiology/Parasitology from Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in Medical Biophysics and Computing from the University of Utah.

His major experience and interests have been in the design, development, and evaluation of computerized tools for the selection and management of anti-infective agents, computer methods to identify and reduce adverse drug events, computerized methods to identify patients needing isolation, and computerized methods to identify and reduce hospital-acquired infections. A number of these computerized tools are clinically operational at several hospitals at Intermountain Health Care.

He was a finalist and third place winner in the Student Paper Competition, 1984, Eighth Annual SCAMC. In 1992, he won the Best Paper on an Application, Sixteenth Annual SCAMC, and in 1993 he received the Priscilla M. Mayden Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Medical Informatics. In 1997, he received the Oslers Cloak Excellence in Caring and Curing Award from Intermountain Health Care. Dr. Evans was on the Fall AMIA Program Committees in 1995 and 1997 and the AMIA Awards Committee.