Ruben Amarasingham, MD

Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

ruben.amarasingham@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Texas Southwestern Med Ctr Dallas (1999)

Research Interests

Clinical Information Technology Assessment and Evaluation
Healthcare Delivery for Indigent Populations
Quality Improvement Methods in Healthcare

Publications

Measuring Clinical Information Technology in the ICU Setting: Application in a Quality Improvement Collaborative

Amarasingham R, Pronovost P, Diener-West M, Goeschel C, Dorman T, Thiemann DR, Powe NR , Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , May 2007; (14(3)):288-294

Disease conditions most frequently evaluated among the homeless in Dallas.

Amarasingham R, Spalding SH. Anderson RJ. , J Health Care Poor Underserved , May 2001; (12(2)):162-176

Clinical Information Technologies and Inpatient Outcomes: A Multiple Hospital Study

Amarasingham R, Plantinga L, Diener M, Gaskin, DJ, Powe, NR , Archives of Internal Medicine , January 2009; (169(2)):108-114

Clinical Information Technology (CIT) Capabilities in Four U.S. Hospitals: Testing a New Structural Performance Measure.

Amarasingham R. Diener-West M, Weiner M. Herbers J, Lehmann H. Powe N. , Medical Care , 2006; (44):216-224

County Hospitals and Regionalization: An Analysis of Out-of-County Costs.

Amarasingham R, Pickens S, Anderson RJ. , Texas Medicine , 2004; (100(6)):56-59

Honors/Awards

Health Care Hero of Dallas

Dallas Business Journal (2009)

Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar

Johns Hopkins University (2003)

Institute Scholar

Texas Institute for Health Policy Research (2002)

Bryan Williams Merit Scholarship

UT Southwestern (1995)

Lida Shaw King Prize in Neuroscience

Brown University (1995)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

AcademyHealth

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

Society for General Internal Medicine