LaVenture, MartinTobbell, Dominique2015-03-222015-03-222015-03-22https://hdl.handle.net/11299/170715Martin (Marty) LaVenture received his BS in Natural Science from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota in 1973, and a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology in 1976 and Ph.D. in Health Informatics in 2004 from the University of Minnesota. From 1976 to 1978, Dr. LaVenture served as epidemiologist and surveillance coordinator in the Immunization Program Section of the Minnesota Department of Health. In 1978, Dr. LaVenture joined the Wisconsin Division of Health in Madison, where he held the position of assistant state epidemiologist and communicable disease coordinator until 1987. Between 1987 and 1990, he served as director of the Cohort Public Health Division of Epic Systems Corp., in Minneapolis where he worked as a developer of software systems for health information management. In 1990, Dr. LaVenture returned to the Minnesota Department of Health where he held the position of supervisor, Immunization Assessment and Registries Unit in the Division of Disease Prevention and Control. From December 1995 through December 1997, he served as manager, Acute Disease Prevention Services Section in the Division of Disease Prevention and Control. Since December 1997, Dr. LaVenture has served as Director of Health Informatics and since 2009 he has served as Director of the Office of Health Information Technology and e-Health at the Minnesota Department of Health. As part of this, he leads the statewide Minnesota e-Health Initiative, a public-private collaborative chartered in 2004 to advance health information technology adoption and use in Minnesota. In 1992, Dr. LaVenture joined the graduate program in Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota, receiving his Ph.D. in 2004. Since 2004, he has served as a core member of faculty at the University of Minnesota in Health Informatics. In 2011, Dr. LaVenture was elected as a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.enInstitute for Health InformaticsDivision of Health Computer SciencesDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and PathologyAcademic Health CenterHealth informaticsMinnesota Department of HealthSchool of Public HealthEpidemiologye-HealthOral History