People and Office
The IHTSDO head office is located in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the top floor of the recently established IT University of Copenhagen.
The IHTSDO staff is responsible for IHTSDO’s day-to-day management and operations. The staff includes:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Terminologist
- Chief Quality Officer
- Chief Technical Architect
- Senior Project Manager
- Junior Project Manager
- Business Manager
- Secretary and Administrative Staff
Below we have given a short introduction of ourselves. To contact us, click here.
Chief Executive Officer
Jennifer Zelmer, B.Sc. M.A. Ph.D.
Jennifer Zelmer is CEO of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. Prior to joining IHTSDO, Jennifer led programs related to health information standards and analysis at the Canadian Institute for Health Information and worked with a variety of health, academic, and government organizations in Canada, Australia, Denmark, and India. Ms. Zelmer is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Toronto and has been a member of several health-related advisory committees and boards. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Health Information Science and a PhD in Economics.
Chief Terminologist
Kent Spackman, M.D. Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Public Health and Medical Informatics, Oregon Health & Science University
Dr. Spackman has served as the Scientific Director of the SNOMED Project at the College of American Pathologists and has been Chair of the SNOMED International Editorial Board. He is an internationally recognized expert on biomedical knowledge representation. His informatics research has focused on applied artificial intelligence, including machine learning, natural language understanding, and clinical terminology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
Chief Quality Officer
Edward Cheetham, M.Res. FRCA
Dr. Cheetham is a Senior Clinical Author in the Terminology Service of NHS Connecting for Health. He has a Masters Degree in Informatics Research from the University of Manchester. He has worked in the areas of SNOMED CT development, evaluation and integration projects, and more recently has concentrated on the challenges of associating SNOMED CT with other information standards and the practicalities of SNOMED CT post-coordination.
Senior Project Manager
Berit Jensen, M.A.
Berit has a master’s degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Copenhagen. She has been working in the translation business for many years with the main focus on IT terminology.
Junior Project Manager
Christina Nilsson, M.A.
Christina has a M.A. in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews.
She works as a Junior Project Manager at the IHTSDO.
Executive Secretary
Jayaseeli Liyanage Christiansen, Diploma, Sri Lanka [Secretarial & Administration and Food & Beverage/Banquet (Administration)]
Jayaseeli has many years of professional experience in administration within a variety of fields. She has been working as an administrator to single actors, multiple individuals and whole departments.
