Bryan Bergeron

Bryan Bergeron, MD, writes, speaks and consults about business technology and the intersection of computers and medicine. The author of more than a score of books and several hundred other publications, Bryan’s expertise extends from robotics to digital-data management and from medical informatics to modeling and simulation. He is the author/co-author of several US patents. Bryan heads Archetype Technologies Inc., which specializes in the development and evaluation of new technologies and intellectual property. He also works with leading law firms as an expert witness in patent litigation.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, a member of the Affiliate Faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care of Massachusetts General Hospital.

Bryan has worked with technology startups in areas ranging from surgical robotics and artificial intelligence to user-interface design and 3D modeling and simulation. As chief scientist with Kurzweil Technologies and Medical Learning Company, he designed and developed avatar-based clinical simulations. Previously, with Kurzweil AI, he focused on voice recognition and medical expert systems. As chief scientist for Accella Learning LLC, he designed and developed intelligent tutoring systems and serious games for training military and civilian first responders for nuclear, chemical and biological events.

Bryan founded his first company, Home Health Software, in 1984, with several commercially successful software titles. This was followed by HeartLab, the first commercial multimedia patient simulator on a microcomputer. In addition to software, Bryan has designed and developed microprocessor-based hardware and specialized sensors. He has successfully secured and directed grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Department of Defense (DOD).

His twenty plus books, published by McGraw-Hill, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. and Prentice Hall, among others, range from business and technology to clinical medicine and applied medical informatics. He received the 2008 Book of the Year Award from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) for Developing a Data Warehouse for the Healthcare Enterprise: Lessons from the Trenches. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of e.MD and is on the editorial board of Healthcare Informatics. He also serves as editor of Servo Magazine, dedicated to the next generation of robotics and Nuts & Volts Magazine, written for the hands-on electronics hobbyist.

Bryan completed his formal education with a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Medical Informatics, including advanced courses in computer science, at Harvard in 1987. He received his BS degree cum laude from Tulane University and his MD from Louisiana State University Medical Center. He also studied Neurobiology at the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole.