Dag von Lubitz

Internationally recognized multidisciplinary scientist. Author of over 200 peer-reviewed papers. In addition several book chapters, and books whose subjects span from molecular pharmacology of neurological diseases to knowledge management, advanced technology, network-centric operations, and leadership. After a distinguished academic career at several major European and US universities followed by work at the National Institutes of Health, he served until April 2008 as the Chairman and Chief Scientist at MedSMART, and as the Adjunct Professor at the College of Health Sciences at Central Michigan University. Laureate of the Smithsonian Institution Award and recipient of the Laval Prize in Medicine. Working in the US and EU, he is a frequent key-note speaker on decision-making in unpredictably changing environments, civilian and military leadership, applications of network-centric operations in non-military settings, and information and knowledge management during crises and disasters. As an avid proponent of the universal doctrine of leadership, and the proponent of its cognitive foundations to disaster and crisis management, von Lubitz advises governmental and private organizations on these and the related issues. He also provides advice on several aspects of national and international e-health, telemedicine, and education based on distributed simulation and virtual reality, particularly in the context of worldwide operations. His consulting activities concentrate on distance education, training of medical personnel, delivery of medical services in rural/remote regions and in Less Developed Countries. Current work concentrates on the “Teams of Leaders” concept as the pivotal of effective collaboration among complex organizations in both government and private sectors.

Employer:	The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions, Central Michigan University
Position:	AdjunctResearch Professor and Head, International Center for Collaborative Leadership in Healthcare
Time period:	January 2002 - December 2010
Description:	Principal Scientist and Head, Intl. Ctr. for Collaborative Ledership in Healthcare: diorecting a multinational, transboundary effort focused on collaborative annd cooperative leadership in national and international healthcare operations. Work related both to leadership under normal ("steady state") and crisis/disaster conditions. The center is engaged in research, education and training, and dissemination of revolutionary leadership methods based on the Teams of Leaders (ToL) concept, and emphasis on "actionabkle understanding" and "unity of purpose" as the pivots of modern mission-oriented leadership in complex, transboundary environments.

Employer:	MedSMART, Inc.
Position:	Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientist
Time period:	January 2001 - September 2008
Description:	Duties: • Development of advanced programs of simulation-based medical education and training • Development/maintenance of organizational standards of ethical conduct in science and academic activities of personnel • Supervision/direction of all major national and international field operations and studies • Supervision of research/technical personnel and administrative personnel • Personnel development and academic support • Supervision and active participation in the development of teaching/training curricula based on international standards of delivery and evidence-based practice • Report writing, participation in/organization of scientific meetings, and publication writing Responsibilities: • Integration of cross-disciplinary programs • Maintenance of interdisciplinary program support and collaboration • Development and support of national/international articulation agreements with universities and research organizations • executive level liaison with partnering/collaborating organizations • executive level liaison with national/international cultural/business/political representatives • Interdisciplinary team development and scientific task assignment

Employer:	University of Michigan
Position:	Director, Medical Readiness Trainer Team and Medical Simulation and Virtual Reality Program
Time period:	January 1997 - December 2001
Description:	Duties: • Leadership, directing, and supervision of multidisciplinary scientific (physicians, scientists, engineers) and support personnel (technical and administrative) in a comprehensive, interdisciplinary biomedical research program • Teaching undergraduate and resident courses on technology in medicine, disaster response, bioterrorism, and crisis leadership • Conduct of own neuropharmacological and cognition research • Administrative, scientific, and operational supervision of the Medical Trainer Unit - the world's first clinical global-range training unit integrating advanced ICT, virtual reality, simulation and information management systems technology as the principal teaching/training tools. Responsibilities: • Scientific program development • Supervision and investigator/staff guidance and personal development • Fiscal development • Responsibility for publication and dissemination of research results • Leadership and operational support and development of 5 multidisciplinary laboratories and one advanced technology training center • Support and development of medical simulation platforms, VR, 3-D visualization methods, haptics, and the supporting advanced telecommunications systems. Development of ground concepts in intelligent agent-based modeling of disease.

Employer:	National Institutes of Health
Position:	Guest Professor and Associate Scientist
Time period:	January 1994 - December 1997
Description:	Duties and Responsibilities: • Unit Leader, Neurodegenerative Diseases: Pathology, physiology, pharmacology, and treatment of slow and fast neurodegenerative diseases and brain injury and trauma • Responsibility for scientific operations of m multinational/ multidisciplinary research team • Teaching a graduate course on pharmacology and physiology of neurodegenerative disorders at FAES/AAAS • Teaching a research methods course at FAES/AAAS

Employer:	National Institute of Health NIH/NIDDK/MRS
Position:	Senior Scientist and Special Fellow
Time period:	January 1993 - December 1994
Description:	Duties and Responsibilities: • Neuropharmacology and molecular biology of brain adenosine receptors • Behavioral and cognition studies in animal models of brain disorders

Employer:	Foundation for Advancement of Science, National Institutes of Health
Position:	Senior Research Fellow
Time period:	January 1991 - December 1993
Description:	Duties and Responsibilities: • Neurpopharmacology and pathophysiology of brain disorders • Cognition alterations in animal models of brain disorders

Employer:	Hahnemann University School of Medicine; Lab. of Neuroscience
Position:	Senior Scientist/Associate Professor; External Expert Investigator
Time period:	January 1986 - December 1996
Description:	Duties and Responsibilities: • Senior Scientist, Office of Naval Research Cerebral Ischemia/Brain Injury “Calciphor Program” • Teaching under and graduate courses in physiology and pharmacology of the nervous system • Research and advice on pharmacology of neuroprotection

Employer:	National Institute of Health, NINCDS, Neuropathology USUHS and Naval Hospital, National Capital Military Region, Bethesda, MD
Position:	Visiting Associate
Time period:	January 1984 - December 1986
Description:	Duties and Responsibilities: • Electronmicroscopy and histochemistry of brain diseases • Free radical-mediated pathology of brain pathology; neuropharmacology of stroke

Employer:	Windholm Music Center
Position:	Windholm Music Center Education Program Manager
Time period:	January 1982 - December 1984
Description:	• Administrative management of postgraduate opera singer training courses • Management of accreditation affairs • PR development • Liaison with the Royal Danish Council for the Arts and University of Copenhagen Department of Music

Employer:	Royal Hospital; Royal Teacher's College
Position:	Royal Danish Research Council Fellow, Scholar in Residence; Senior Lecturer (teaching duties only)
Time period:	January 1980 - December 1984
Description:	Duties and Responsibilities: • Neuropharmacological research • Teaching one semester undergraduate course on normal and pathological neuroanatomy (fall) and histology (spring) • Teaching graduate, one semester course on battlefield medicine (spring), and a graduate course and post-graduate week-long seminar on disaster and crisis leadership (fall) • Teaching a semester-long graduate course on theory and practice of biological research • Teaching a graduate seminar (week) on history of science

Employer:	Det Klassiske Teater Artistic Program Council
Position:	Member
Time period:	January 1976 - December 1982
Description:	• Associate Head for Classical Repertoire • Associate Lecturer, Classical Text Analysis (6 weeks) segment of the course on Play Interpretation for Actors and Directors

Articles:	SELECTED ARTICLES 1.von Lubitz DKJE, 2008, in press, Strategic leadership – the missing capstone of crisis management, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 2.von Lubitz DKJE, Beakley E, in press, ”Teams of Leaders” concept in homeland security and disaster management operations, J. Homeland Security and Disaster Management 3.von Lubitz DKJE, 2008, DHS should emulate US Army’s “Teams of Leaders”: the enemy within, Government Security News 6(8), August 2008, 43-45 4.von Lubitz DKJE, 2008, Medical readiness for operations other tan war: Boyd’s OODA loop and training using advanced distributed simulation technology, in Operations Other Than War, IJRAM Special Issue (DKJE von Lubitz, Ed.), 409-432 5.von Lubitz DKJE, 2008, Strategic leadership: essential concepts, dilemmas, and the need for the doctrine of leadership, J. Practical Leadership 3(1), 63-76 6.von Lubitz DKJE, Beakley JE, Patricelli, F, 2008, Disaster Management: The Structure, Function, and Significance of Network-Centric Operations, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 1/1 (5) Available at: http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol5/iss1/1 7.von Lubitz DKJE, 2008, Review of America's Army: A Model for Interagency Effectiveness," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Vol. 5 : Issue. 1, Article 25. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol5/iss1/25 8.von Lubitz DKJE, Beakley E, Patricelli F, 2008, “All hazards approach” to network-centric disaster management: the role of information and knowledge management, and Boyd’s OODA Loop in disaster leadership, The Journal of Disaster Study, Policy and Management, May 13, doi:10.1111/j.0361-3666.2008.01060.x, available at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/disa/0/0 9.Patricelli F, Beakley E, Carnevale A, Tarabocia M, von Lubitz DKJE, 2008, Disaster management and mitigation: the telecommunications infrastructure, The Journal of Disaster Study, Policy and Management, May 30, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2008.01060.x, available at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/ doi/abs/ 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2008.01060.x 10.von Lubitz DKJE, Patricelli F, 2008, Telecommunications infrastructure for worldwide network-centric healthcare operations and the associated information systems, Intl. J. Virtual Organizations 1, 34-51 11.von Lubitz DKJE, Beakley E,, 2008, To Lead, Project White Horse, http://blog.projectwhitehorse.com/?p=49 12.von Lubitz DKJE, 2007, Analytical Framework for Decision-Making and Leadership in Fast-Paced Environments: The OODA Loop, DM Management Review, September 2007, available at http://www.dmreview.com/editorial/newsletter_archive.cfm?... 13.von Lubitz DKJE, Wickramasinghe N, 2006, Dynamic leadership in unstable and unpredictable environments, Intl. J. Management and Enterprise Development 4, 339-350 14.von Lubitz DKJE, Patricelli F, Pasquale P, 2007, Worldwide network-centric healthcare operations and the associated telecommunications infrastructure, IEEE Proceedings, HEALTHCOM 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2007 (abridged version available at http://www.med-smart.org/publications.html) 15.von Lubitz DKJE, Patricelli F, 2007, Networkcentric healthcare operations: data warehousing and the associated telecommunications platforms, Intl. J. Services Standards, 1, 97-116 16.von Lubitz DKJE, Wickramasinghe N, Yanovsky G., 2006, Networkcentric Healthcare Operations: The Telecommunications Structure, Int. J. Networking and Virtual Organizations 1, 60-85 17.von Lubitz DKJE, Wickramasinghe N, 2006, Networkcentric Healthcare: Outline of Entry Portal Concept, Intl. J. of Electronic Business Management 1, 16-28 18.Paticelli F, von Lubitz, DKJE, 2006, Telemedicine and telepresence: fact and fiction, L’Asrerisco (Telecom Italia Learning Services on Line) accessible athttp://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:WVrFcoSql_UJ:www.til... 19.von Lubitz DKJE., Wickramasinghe N, 2006, Networkcentric Healthcare: applying the tools, techniques and strategies of knowledge management to create superior healthcare operations, Int. J. Electronic Healthcare 4, 415-428 20.von Lubitz DKJE., Wickramasinghe N, 2006, Networkcentric Healthcare: strategies, structures and technologies for managing knowledge, In Emerging Trends and Challenges in Information Technology Management, Proceedings IRMA, Washington, DC, May 2006 21.von Lubitz DKJE. Wickramasinghe N, 2006, Key challenges and policy implications for governments and regulators in a networkcentric healthcare environment, Electronic Government 2, 204-224 22.von Lubitz DKJE, Wickramasinghe N, 2006, Healthcare and Technology: The Doctrine of Networkcentric Healthcare, Intl. J Electronic Healthcare 4, 322-344 23.von Lubitz, DKJE, Wickramasinghe N, 2006, Networkcentric Healthcare and Bioinformatics, Intl J. Expert Systems with Applications 30, 11-23 24.von Lubitz DKJE, Wickramasinghe N, 2006, Creating germane knowledge in dynamic environments, Intl. J. Innovation and Learning 3, 326-347 25.Patricelli F, von Lubitz DKJE, 2005, The Boyd’s paradox applied to Medical technology based education, MIT Technology Review 6, pp. 60-63. 26.Patricelli F, von Lubitz DKJE, 2005, Telemedicine and Medical Training: some precisation and some provocation, Telecom Italia Learning Portal, www.tils.com/ecm/tecnologie.asp , 2005. 26.von Lubitz DKJE, Carrasco B, Fausone CA, Gabbrielli F, Kirk J, Lary MJ, Levine H, 2005, Bioterrorism, medical readiness, and distributed simulation training of first responders. In Community and Response to Terrorism (Vol. II): A Community of Organizations: Responsibilities and Collaboration Among All Sectors of Society (J. Johnson, M. Cwiek, G. Ludlow, EDS), Praeger (Greenwood Publ. Group) Westport, CT, pp. 267-312 27.von Lubitz DKJE, 2005, Proceedings of EMPHIR/Real Time Telemedicine Conference (G. Graschew, T. Roelofs, Eds.) Istanbul (Turkey)available at www.d-n-i.net 28.von Lubitz DKJE, Levine H., 2005, Distributed, multiplatform high fidelity human patient simulation environment: a global-range simulation-based medical learning and training network. Intl. J. Healthcare Manag. 4/5/6, 500-528 29.von Lubitz DKJE, Carrasco B, Fausone CA, Gabbrielli F, Kirk J, Lary MJ, Levine H, Patrcelli F, Pletcher TA, Richir S, Stevens G, Wroblewski G., 2004, Bioterrorism: development of large-scale medical readiness using multipoint distance-based simulation training, Stud. Health Technol. Inform. 98, 221-227 30.von Lubitz DKJE, 2004, The What, Why, When, and How of the Pan-European Virtual Hospital, in Proceedings of EMPHIR/Real Time Telemedicine Conference (G. Graschew, T. Roelofs, Eds.) Istanbul (Turkey) 31.von Lubitz DKJE, Carrasco B, Levine H, 2004, Remote field training of 1st Responders and the use of advanced simulation technology, in IEEE Proceedings: Pan-European Conference on Telemedicine (Eds. R. Bedini and F. Macellari), Ischia 2004 32.von Lubitz DKJE, Carrasco B, Levine H Patricelli F, Pletcher T, Richir S, Stevens G, Wroblewski G, 2004, Large-scale medical readiness using multipoint distance-based simulation training, In Building A Better You: The Next Tools for Medical Education, Diagnosis, and Care (MMVR 2004, J. Westwood et al., EDS), IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 221-227 33.von Lubitz DKJE, Carrsaco B, Gabbrielli F, Levine H, McClellan T, Patricelli F, Poirier K, Richir S, 2004, Distributed, Multiplatform High Fidelity Human Patient Simulation Environment in an Ultra-Long Distance Setting, Proceedings AMCIS Conference 2004 – Emerging Issues in 21st Century Healthcare (Eds. V. Wilson, M. Guah, N. Romano), Stevens Institute of Technology, New York, http://aisel.isworld.org/proceedings/ amcis/2004/ 34.Richir S, von Lubitz, DKJE, Levine H, Wolf E, 2004, Simulation, modeling, and medical telepresence training: the role for civilian and military field operation readiness. In Modeling & Simulation for Computer-aided Medicine and Surgery, Proceedings INRIA Intl. Symposium, Rocquencourt (France), MS02 – 14 35.von Lubitz DKJE, 2004, Bioterrorism: Field Guide to Disease Identification and Initial Patient Management, CRC Press (Boca Raton), pp 1-189 36.von Lubitz DKJE, 2004, Medical Education, in “Encyclopedia of Distance Education”, Sage Publications, Sage USA/Sage UK Publishing Group(Thousand Oaks CA/London), pp. 327-329 37.von Lubitz DKJE, Carrasco B, Gabbrielli F, Ludwig T, et al., 2003, Transatlantic medical education: preliminary data on distance-based high fidelity human patient simulation training. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2003 (J. Westwood, ED), IOS Press (Amsterdam) 38.von Lubitz DKJE, Carrasco B, Levine H, McClelland T, Poirier C, Richir S, 2003, High fidelity human patient simulation training in trauma and emergency medicine – distributed multiplatform environments in distance learning setting. Proc. Laval Virtual 2003, ISTIA Innovation, Univ. of Angers Press, 107-112bis, ISBN 2-0515730-2-2 39.von Lubitz DK, Carrasco B, Gabbrielli F, Ludwig T, Levine H, Patricelli F, Poirier C, Richir S., 2003, Transatlantic medical education: preliminary data on distance-based high-fidelity human patient simulation training, Stud. Health. Technol. Inform. 94, 379-85 40.Lary JM, Pletcher T, von Lubitz DKJE, 2003, Developing mass medical readiness: a model for simulation-based, distributed training of geographically dispersed EMS and prehospital personnel. Proceedings, SSGRR Conference on Internet, Business, Science, Education and Medicine, L’Aquila (Italy), also available at http://www.wictek.com/ssgrr2003/development_of_medical.pdf 41.von Lubitz DKJE, 2003, The myopic vision of an endless horizon, Proc. Intl. Norway Telemedicine Conference, Norwegian Telemedicine Centre, University of Tromso, September 2003 42.von Lubitz DKJE, 2003, OODA, Proceedings, Intl. IT Conference IPSI 2003, Montenegro, October 2003 43.von Lubitz DKJE, Bircher N, Carrasco B, Fischbach J, Levine H, Patricelli F, Poitier C, 2002, Distance-Based Medical Operations and Medical Telepresence: New Ways of doing the same Old Things, Proceedings of the ITEC 2002 International Conference, Lille, France, April 7-11 44.Von Lubitz DKJE., Levine H, Wolf E, 2002, The Goose, the Gander, or the Strasbourg Paté for All: Medical Education, World, and the Internet. In W, Chin, F. Patricelli, V. Milutinovic (Eds.). Electronic Business and Education: Recent Advances in Internet Infrastructures, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 189-210
Papers:	SELECTED PAPERS von Lubitz DKJE, Patricelli E, 2007, Network-centric healthcare: broad-based access to delivery of services and training in Less Developed Countries, HEALTHCOM 2007, Taipei, June 2007 2.von Lubitz DKJE, Wickramasinghe N, 2006, Network-centric healthcare, Intl. Healthcare Summit, Washington DC, June 2006 3.von Lubitz DKJE, Simulation in healthcare: distributed training for the underprivileged, Euro-Mediterranean Hospital Initiative Summit, Istanbul, May 2006 4.von Lubitz DKJE, Telemedicine and distributed simulation training, Mediterranean Telemedicine Conference, Rhodos, July 2005 5.von Lubitz DKJE, Carrasco B, Gabbrielli F, Ludwig T, et al., Transatlantic medical training – the quantitative data, MMVR Proceedings, Newport Beach, CA, 2004 6.von Lubitz DKJE, 1st Responder Training and Simulation, 1st National Military Medical Simulation Conference, Grantsville, TX, 2004 7.von Lubitz DKJE, Generalist and the future of biomedicine, Proc. 40th Ann. Polytech. Medellin, Medellin, Col., 2004 8.von Lubitz DKJE, OODA, Abstracts, Intl. IT Conference IPSI 2003, Montenegro 2003 9.von Lubitz DKJE, Telemedicine – for whom?, Intl. Conf. on Technol. and Telemed., Pisa, It., 2003 10.Von Lubitz DKJE, Carrasco B, Gabbrielli F, Ludwig T, et al., 2003, Transatlantic medical training – the quantitative data, Proceedings, Medicine Meets Virtual reality Conference, Newport Beach, CA, January 2003 11.von Lubitz DKJE, Bach-y-Rita, P, Carrasco, B., Cormier G, Fischbach J, Levine H, Pletcher, T, 2002, CELSUS – a new approach to the general surgical simulator. MMVR 2002, IOS Intl. Publishers, Amsterdam 2002 12.von Lubitz DKJE, 2002, Stroke in the Computer or A Pie in the Sky: The Need for Simulation and Modeling of Brain Pathology in the Search for the Effective Treatment of Brain Disorders, Abstracts, 8th Conference on Neuroprotective Agents, Hilton Head, S. Carolina, September 2002 13.von Lubitz, D,K.J.E., McLellan,J., Wen Ye, Lin, R.C.S., 2000, Adenosine A3 receptors in cerebral ischemia: the effect of antagonists. Intl. Symp. On Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Copenhagen, 15-18 April 2000 14.von Lubitz, D.K.J.E., Lin, R.C.S., 2000, Right thing at a wrong time? Adenosine A3 receptors and cerebroprotection in stroke. Proc. 4th Intl. Conf. on Neuroprotective Agents, Lake Tahoe, Sept. 15-21, 2000 15.von Lubitz, D.K.J.E., Treloar, D., Freer J, Wilkerson, W, Pletecher, T., Levine, H., Wolf, E., French, A., Montgomery, J., 2000, medical training at sea using human patient simulators: a new approach to the acute problem of maintenance of skills. Proc. Intl. Symp. on Simulation in Anesthesiol. Scottsdale, AZ, Jan. 14-16, 2001 16.Wen Ye, J. McClellan, R. Silbergleit, D.v.Lubitz,1999, Involvement of the novel adenosine A3 receptor in generation of brain damage, J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab.
Books:	BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS 1.von Lubitz DKJE, 2008, OOTW: Civilian and military aspects of Operations Other Than War, Disasters, and Counter-terrorism, Special Edition Intl. J. Risk Assessment and Management, Inderscience, London (UK), pp. 331-431 2.Wickramasinghe N, von Lubitz DKJE, 2007, Knowledge-Based Enterprise: Theories and Fundamentals, IDEA Publishing Group, Hershey, PA 3.von Lubitz DKJE, 2003, Bioterrorism: Field Guide to Disease Identification and Initial Patient Management, CRC/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton (Fl), British Medical Association Best of the Year 2004 (Public Health Section) 4.von Lubitz, DKJE, 2002, Management of Medical Emergencies for Non-Paramedic 1st Responders, MedSMART, Inc..and Central Michigan University Press 5.von Lubitz, DKJE, 2009, The Concepts of network-centricity and “Teams of Leaders” (ToL) in international and multinational healthcare: IT/IM/KM and High Power Leader Teams in disaster and humanitarian relief operations, in E. Kladiashvili (Ed.) Grid Technologies for eHealth: Applications for Telemedicine Services and Delivery, IGI Press, Hershey, PA 6.von Lubitz DKJE, Levine H, Patricelli F, Richir S, 2008, Distributed Simulation-Based Medical Training: Going beyond the obvious, in R. Kyle & B. Murray (Eds.) Clinical Simulation: Operations, Engineering, and Management, Elsevier Press (Amsterdam), pp. 591-625 7.von Lubitz DKJE, Wickramasinghe N, 2008, Healthcare Network-centric Operations: the confluence of e-health and e-government, in A-V Anttiroiko (Ed.) Electronic Government: Concepts, methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Information Science Reference/IGI Global Publications (New York, N.Y), pp. 2700-2717 8.von Lubitz DKJE., Wickramasinghe N, 2007, Networkcentric Healthcare: The Entry Point into the Network, in A.Tatnall (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Portal technologies and Applications, IDEA Publishing Group, Hershey, 647-652
Patents:	Three drug patents

Sports:	Fencing, yachting
Hobbies:	Bookworm, theaterworm, classical music concertworm, occasional photographer of skills based on luck, builder of ship models, and proud of being a complete antitalent in wielding a hammer, a paint brush, or a saw around the house
Memberships:	US American Computer/Informatics Society American Society for Medical Simulation (Funding member) Association of the Military Surgeons of the US Society for Academic Emergency Medicine SUPERCOM (Funding Member) U.S. Naval Institute UK British Neuropathological Society Royal Naval Society Germany Fraunhoffer-Belgrade Institute of Technology Scandinavia Scandinavian Society of Neuropathology
Awards:	2004 Distinguished Scientist Award, Telecom Italia/SSGRR, Italy 2003 Elected to Fraunhoffer Institute (Medical Section), Germany 2002 International Laval Prize (France) 2001 Laureate of the Smithsonian Institution in Higher Education (US) 1991 Senior Research Fellowship, Foundation for Advancement of Science (US)