Keith E. Campbell
Role:
Program Director, Systemic Harmonization and Interoperability Enhancement for Laboratory Data (SHIELD)
Food and Drug Administration
Keith Campbell serves as the program director of the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Systemic Harmonization and Interoperability Enhancement for Laboratory Data (SHIELD) program – an effort assembled in 2015 with a singular focus: improving the interoperability and utility of in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) data by “Describing the same test the same way anywhere in the Healthcare ecosystem”.
With nearly 30-years of experience working in medical informatics and terminologies for encoding clinical data, Dr. Campbell has dedicated his career to improving patient safety outcomes through the engineering of safer healthcare systems. Before joining FDA full-time, Dr. Campbell worked as the principal architect of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Reference Terminology (SNOMED RT), Assistant National Director for Kaiser Permanente, and Director of Informatics Architecture for the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Keith holds an MD from the University of Southern California and while completing his residency in Internal Medicine, obtained his PhD in Computer Science & Medical Informatics from Stanford University. His work has received industry-wide recognition, including three FedHealthIT Innovation Awards, FedHealthIT VA Hero of the week, the 2018 Open-Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2023 SNOMED Lifetime Achievement Award.