E. Andrew Balas
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E. Andrew Balas M.D., Ph.D. (1951, Budapest - ) serves as the Dean of the College of Health Sciences and tenured Professor of Community Health at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia [1]. As a Congressional Fellow, he worked on health care legislation for the Senate Public Health and Safety Subcommittee He drafted the Healthcare Quality Enhancement Act of 1999 that, among others, achieved government action on reducing errors in medicine and was signed into law by President Clinton (Dec. 6, 1999). His contributions have been recognized in the Records of the United States Senate. His academic credentials include over 100 publications, including reviews in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal, Archives of Internal Medicine and other periodicals. He is an elected member of the American College of Medical Informatics and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has advanced educational degrees in medicine (M.D.), health informatics (Ph.D.) and applied mathematics.
