Ontology Research Group (ORG) Referent Tracking Unit (RTU) ADDRESS: New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences 701 Ellicott Street, Suite B2-165 Buffalo, New York 14203 USA rjr9@buffalo.edu Office: (716) 881-8981 Fax: (716) 849-6890		Education Selected Publications Employment Professional Development Scientific Associations
Ron has an M.A. in Philosophy from the University at Buffalo and a B.A. in Mathematics from Canisius College. He joined the RTU from Gartner where he was a software engineer developing a business intelligence application that supports Gartner’s IT Benchmarking service. Acting as the business process analyst of the RTU, Ron analyzes the electronic healthcare record related business process requirements for all healthcare and associated enterprises in the wider Buffalo area.

M.A. in Philosophy, The University at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY), 1992

B.A. in Mathematics, Canisius College (Buffalo, NY), 1993

1. Rudnicki, R., Ceusters, W., Manzoor, S., & Smith, B. "What Particulars are Referred to in EHR Data? A Case Study in Integrating Referent Tracking into an Electronic Health Record Application," Proceedings of 2007 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium: Chicago, IL, 2007.
2. Manzoor, S., Ceusters, W., & Rudnicki, R. "A Middleware Approach to Integrate Referent Tracking in EHR Systems," Proceedings of AMIA Annual Symposium: Chicago, IL, 2007.
3. Manzoor S., Ceusters, W., & Rudnicki, R. "Implementation of a Referent Tracking System," International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI), 2007, 2(4): 41-58.
4. Corcoran, J. & Rudnicki, R. "Review of Anellis, I. Forty Years of ‘Unnatural’ Natural Deduction and Quantification: A History of First-Order Systems of Natural Deduction from Gentzen to Copi," Mathematical Reviews, 1994, (94m): 03004a.

1987-1995: Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

1995-1997: Software Quality Assurance Analyst at ClientLogic, Nashville, TN

1997-2000: Database Programmer at SofTrek Corporation, Buffalo, NY

2000-2006: Software Engineer at Gartner, Stamford, CT

2006-Present: Business Process Analyst for the Referent Tracking Unit, Buffalo, NY