Steven E.
Locke, M.D.
Steven E. Locke, M.D. is the Director of Psychiatric Informatics at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, and the
Center for Clinical Computing. He also is the Chief
of Behavioral Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. He teaches at
Harvard Medical School and
at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. He also
maintains a private practice of psychiatry and behavioral medicine in
Boston. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology for psychiatry with the added qualification for geriatric psychiatry.
Dr. Locke has been a pioneer in behavioral medicine and has lectured widely and conducted research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology, as well as publishing 30 scientific papers and 5 books in these fields. His books have included The Healer Within , Mind and Immunity, Foundations of Psychoneuroimmunology, and Psychological and Behavioral Treatments for Disorders Associated with Immune Function.
Dr. Locke has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals including Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, M.D. Computing, Biofeedback and Self-Regulation, Medical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, American Journal of Health Promotion, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and American Health magazine. He is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is listed in both Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.
Dr. Locke also has a history of innovation in health informatics. In 1983, he founded the Clinical Psychophysiology Laboratory and introduced the use of computer-assisted biofeedback treatment for stress-related medical disorders at Beth Israel Hospital. In 1985, he founded the Macintosh Healthcare User group of the Boston Computer Society. In 1990, he developed the first interactive, computer-based interview for screening prospective blood donors for the risk of transmitting HIV. (The report of the study's findings, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, was later reprinted in the 1993 Yearbook of Medical Informatics.)
Currently, Dr. Locke is pursuing applications of emerging interactive computer technology to the study of health and behavior. His interests are in the areas of computer-based patient interviewing and interactive health education, including the use of interactive multimedia in health promotion/disease prevention and in AIDS education. Current research projects under development include a CD-ROM for teaching health care workers how to protect themselves from blood-borne pathogens, an interactive multimedia system for teaching the mental status examination, a computer-based interview for the detection of sexual dysfunction among medical patients, and a computer-based patient education and decision support system for adults with asthma, and a decision support/patient education system for managing derpression in primary care.
Dr. Locke has published articles and research reports and lectured on medical informatics, including patient interviewing and computer-based education for patients and professionals. He has served as a faculty member at workshops and conferences sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association, Harvard Medical School, and the Koop Institute. He serves on Medical Technology Policy Committee of the IEEE where he chairs the subcommittee on Personal Health Information Systems. He also serves as a semi-finals judge for the National Information Infrustructure Awards for Health.
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