JACK BUCHANAN
Dr. Jack W. Buchanan is the Director of the Memphis Educational
Computer Connectivity Alliance. Dr. Buchanan is also Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Medicine, Health Informatics, and Physiology and
Biophysics at UT, Memphis, and Staff Physician (Cardiology) at the Memphis
Veterans Administration Medical Center. Dr. Buchanan is founder of
the Biomedical Engineering Distributed Computing Research Environment at
UT, Memphis, which is investigating high-performance distributed computing
for both scientific and clinical applications. At the VA, Dr. Buchanan is
Vice Chairman of the Automated Information Systems advisory committee and
is Co-Chairman of an ad-hoc committee to investigate and implement
distributed image and text workstation technology within the hospital. Dr.
Buchanan was formerly a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill where he was codirector of the NIH funded Advanced Biomedical
Computing and Display Facility and was codirector of the Biomedical Engineering
Telecommunications Research Facility. Dr. Buchanan's research interests
include cellular cardiac electrophysiology, mathematical models of electrical
propagation in the heart, applications of frequency domain analysis techniques
to biological signals as well as more general uses of high performance
distributed computing for community networking, education and remote medical
consultation.
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