Teaching Development Fellow - E-Mail

Mark currently works on the Clinical Information Systems for Primary Care (CIS4PC) project alongside colleagues in the Academic Unit of Primary Care. He has an interest in the use of social networks in health care and has worked on various consultancy projects with Leeds City Council in this area.

• Supports and creates teaching materials for use in the undergraduate medical curriculum.
• Provides technical and research support on the CIS4PC project.
• Assists with teaching on the MSc Health Informatics programme.
• Supervises a Masters student.
• Manages a Knowledge Transfer Assistant.

Recent Publications

Books

• Co-author of a chapter on Informatics in Point-of-Care Testing in Point-of-Care Testing: Needs, Opportunity, and Innovation
• Author of The Developer’s Guide to Social Programming: Building Social Context Using Facebook, Google Friend Connect, and the Twitter API
• Mentioned in Twitter API: Up and Running: Learn How to Build Applications with the Twitter API

Journal Papers

• Hawker, M.D. (2010). Social networking in the National Health Service in England: A quantitative analysis of the online identities of 152 Primary Care Trusts. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 160(1), 356-60.

Conference Presentations

• Analysis of a National Sample of Pharmacist Generated Twitter Content with Clauson, K.A., Ramos, Y. and Morejon, Y. at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting in Anaheim, CA
• The Future: Overcoming the Barriers to Using NHS Clinical Data For Research Purposes with Jones, R.G. at HC2010 in Birmingham, UK

Magazine Articles

• Tweet On in Smart Developer

Web Articles

• The Developer’s Guide to Social Programming: Q&A with Author, Mark Hawker with Ben Barden

White Papers

• Social Networking in the National Health Service in England: A Quantitative Analysis of the Online Identities of 152 Primary Care Trusts
• Embedding Informatics into Clinical Education and Data Standards and Terminologies: Who Cares?
• Overcoming Barriers to the use of Patient Data for Research and Development Between the National Health Service and Higher Education
• E-Health and E-Mental Health