Craig Lehmann's Biography

Craig Lehmann, Dean/Professor, Stony Brook University

Craig Lehmann, PhD, CC (NRCC), FACB is the Dean of The School of Health Technology and Management, Professor of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Director for the Center of Public Health Education at Stony Brook University, Medicine. He is a registered clinical chemist with the National Registry of Clinical Chemistry and a Fellow in the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry. In addition to his more than 75 journal articles, He has edited and co-edited 5 clinical laboratory science textbooks and 14 book chapters. He is the editor and author “Saunders Manual of Clinical Laboratory Science” published by W.B. Saunders. He has made more than 130 presentations nationally and internationally on a variety of health care topics. He served on the editorial board for American Association for Clinical Chemistry “Strategies” (1993-2003) and presently serves on the editorial board of Clinical Laboratory Sciences since 1987. Some of the more distinguished honors that have been bestowed upon him over the years have been; “President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching” Stony Brook University as well as the State University of New York “Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching”. In 2007 received the American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s Award for Outstanding Contributions in Education. For the past several years, Dr. Lehmann has participated in national and international conferences lecturing on emerging technologies that improve the aging experience. His writings and demonstration studies continue to illustrate how e-health technology is responding to the socio-economic and health care concerns of developed and developing countries. Some of his more recent presentations have been:

"E-Participation: Empowering People through Information Communication Technologies (ICTs)”, United Nations, International Telecommunications Union Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, July 24-25, 2013

“Technology-A Geriatrician’s New Best Friend: A Paradigm of e-health and Physician Extenders” American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, May 3-5, 2013

“Telemedicine Technologies for Long Care: Applications and Benefits”. LeadingAge Annual Conference and Exposition Saratoga Springs, New York, May 21-23, 2012

"A Tool Kit for a Successful Home Health Program” Bit’s 4th World Congress Bio Soft 2012, Beijing International Conference Center, Beijing, China March 23-25, 2012

“RHIO / HIE and M-Home” International Telemedicine Congress 2011, Leveraging Technology for Chronic Disease Management, Mumbai, India Nov. 11-13, 2011

“Creating a Regional Health Information Exchange System from Tertiary to Home Health Care” Chair and Speaker, Convergence of Technologies for Point of Care Diagnostics, Biotechnica, Hanover, Germany Oct. 11-13, 2011

“ICT, POCT and e-Health Technology: Providing Electronic Records and Managing Chronic Disease” Bio-IT World Cloud Computing: Looking beyond the Cloud. The Hilton La Jolla, California, September 19-20, 2011

“Information, e-Health and Point of Care Testing Technologies: Opportunities for the World” Chair and Speaker for Low Resource Settings and Developing Countries, Med-e-Tel Luxembourg, April 1, 2011

“Information and e-Health Technology for Rural Community Based Rehabilitation: Technology, Software and Economics” First International – Peking University CBR Summit Forum, Beijing, China March 22, 2011

“Information, e-Health and Point of Care Testing Technologies: Opportunities for the World” Kenya Methodist University, Nairobi, Kenya March 30, 2011

“Establishing a Sustainable Health Care Model - Illert, Turkwel & Meru, Kenya:
Health Care at My Fingertips” Chair and presenter; track P2-10: Point of Care Diagnosis in Personalized Medicine, BIT’s 1st annual Tetra-Congress of Mol Med, Shanghai, China, November 10-12, 2010