Michael J. McGill, Ph.D., is responsible for the Health Sciences for Internet2©. With over thirty years of experience in information technology and over twelve years in healthcare technology McGill has been responsible for system wide operations, development and vision for information systems including the development of clinical repositories, the implementation of clinical and administrative systems, and support architectures that allow secure and reliable access.
McGill was the corporate vice president and chief information officer of the Henry Ford Health System, an integrated delivery system. Prior to that, McGill was the chief information officer of the University of Michigan Health System. McGill also headed its telecommunication networks and phone serviceand was vice president of Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), Inc.
McGill also held the positions of associate professor, assistant dean for research and the Ph.D. Program, School of Information Studies and associate professor of the School of Computer and Information Science at Syracuse University.
McGill was program director for information science for the National Science Foundation and a senior computer and information science advisor, Office of Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
McGill holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse University. Is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association, the College of Health Information Management Executives and the Health Information Management Systems Society. Elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his "pioneering research and development in information systems". McGill is an author of numerous articles and a co-author of Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval published by McGraw-Hill.