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Professor Bernard Richards MSc, PhD, FBCS, FIMA, CEng, CMath, FIHRIM 

Professional Experience 

Professor Richards is Professor of Computation and Professor of  Medical Informatics at UMIST. He is President of the Institute of  Health Record Information and Management and Chairman of the British Computer Society's Health Informatics Committee. He is also a Council Member of the Ukrainian Association of Computer Medicine, a Member of Honour of the Romanian Academy of Medical Science, a Member of the Society of Medical Informatics of Bohemia, and a Member of the John 
von Neumann Computer Society of Hungary, all these in recognition of  the work he has done in promoting Informatics in these respective countries. 

He set up the World's first Database in Obstetrics for both mother and baby, and the world's first database in Infectious Diseases. Subsequently he has produced databases in many clinical areas. His second interest is in Expert Systems for which he produced the world's first such system for Cardiovascular By-pass Surgery, and Experts Systems in Intensive Care and Post Operative Cardiac Surgery, these latter two systems being in current use in both Prague and Poland. His third area of interest is Computer Aided 
Learning /CAL/. There he has produced a Prengancy Textbook for use by patients and would-be patients, and CAL Programs for nurses, doctors, midwives and school children, these latter being in Dental Education. 

He has published many papers in medical journals in the fields of  Gynaecology, Obstetrics, Paediatrics, Intensive Care, Gastroenterelogy, Cardiology, Genetics and Strokes. He is also a co-author of the first Monograph on the Contraceptive Pill. 

Finally he has made a presentation at every MEDINFO since 1974 and at almost every MIE. He has lectured in almost every country in Europe and in four of the five continents.