Hamish Fraser is an expert in the development and application of medical informatics and telemedicine in poor settings and is responsible for the web-based medical record system that tracks several thousand HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda and Lesotho. In 2006, Dr. Fraser and his team rolled out the next generation medical records system, EMR 2.0, at Partners In Health clinics in Rwanda and Lesotho. The Rwandan and Peruvian governments have also asked Dr. Fraser to expand use of the EMR system nationwide, and it will soon become standard for HIV/AIDS care in Rwanda and for care of drug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Peru. In November, Dr. Fraser’s work won him the prestigious Homer Warner award from the American Medical Informatics Association.

 Dr. Fraser received his medical training primarily from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and related hospitals in Scotland. He holds a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence/Knowledge Based Systems from Edinburgh University. He completed a three-year fellowship in medical informatics split between MIT and Tufts-New England Medical Center, the focus of which was the design and evaluation of a computer program to assist with the diagnosis of heart disease.