Dr Richard Appleyard
Company
- IPN President
Education
- Richard read Chemistry at Exeter College, Oxford, before moving to the US with his advisor to complete a PhD in Biophysics at Washington State University. With a strong interest in computers since high school, coupled with self-taught systems administration necessary at graduate school, he elected a two year fellowship in Medical Informatics at OHSU studying how general users access health and medical information on the Internet.
Role
- Richard Appleyard is the Director of Disability Informatics within the Oregon Institute of Disability and Development. He is currently on the faculty of the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center (CDRC) at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), but also holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research Division of the School of Medicine.
Experience
- He then spent five years as the OHSU Web Services Manager within the Information Technology Group where he coordinated and planned the Web infrastructure for the university, as well as assisted departments with how to use and leverage the Web. His research interests center around the use and efficacy of online health information and e-publishing and the use and evaluation of technology to address the needs of people with all levels of ability. He is currently focused on studying the usability and accessibility e-Health Web sites for people with disabilities.