John Nolen
Associate Professor Of Pathology
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Nolen is an Associate Professor of Pathology and laboratory medicine leader with 12+ years blending clinical practice, informatics, and healthcare strategy across academic and hospital settings. He directs pathology for a major pediatric center while building bridges between healthcare standards and emerging technologies such as blockchain, and contributes to the HL7 FHIR specification documentation—underscoring a rare mix of clinical domain expertise and standards-focused back-end work. Trained as an MD/PhD with deep quantitative roots in biomedical engineering, biostatistics, and engineering disciplines, he applies thermodynamics and mathematical thinking to practical problems in lab operations and data integration. He has held executive roles at Cerner shaping laboratory strategy and remains creatively engaged as an independent screenwriter, bringing narrative sensibility to complex technical and organizational challenges.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MD, Medicine, MD, Medicine at Tulane University School of MedicinePhD, Biomedical Engineering, PhD, Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University
Github Skills (5)
smart-on-fhir10
hl7-fhir10
documentation10
json5
xml5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HL7/fhir
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Official source for the HL7 FHIR Specification
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 643 commits, 486 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the HL7 FHIR specification documentation. Their commits involved merging changes from the master branch, indicating integration work. The changes focused on documentation updates, including additions to the workflow and resource lists, and adjustments to elements within the specifications. The edits spanned various files, suggesting the user was involved in maintaining the overall documentation structure.
hl7-fhirfhir
jdlnolen/JIRA-Spec-Artifacts
Mar 2022 - Mar 2026
Manages the artifacts, pages and other lists associated with all HL7 projects managed through JIRA feedback projects
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
hl7vulnerabilitiesjiralistsattestation
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