James K. Massey, M.E.

Professor Massey has specialized in designing and implementing secure networks and databases for medical care settings for more than 35 years. With his extensive background in computer hardware and software design and development, Professor Massey was the principal or participating author on more than 30 articles published across the last three decades. He retired as an emeritus faculty member of the Department in 2005 to take care of aging family members.

Before his tenure in the Department, Professor Massey earned earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Master of Science in engineering from the University of Florida.

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Research Interests

Professor Massey’s primary area of research is in large free-text databases in support of medical care and research.

Referred Publications

• Massey, James K. and Doty, Keith L., “The ‘Jogger’ Microprocessor Communication Bus”, PERCOMP ’78 Proceedings, Long Beach California, Apr. 28-30, 1978.
• Massey, James K., “Collision Sensing and Signaling for a Microcomputer Controlled Robotic Manipulator”, Master of Engineering Thesis, University of Florida, 1978.
• Massey James K., “What is a Microprocessor”, Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 1, Issue 3, Plenum Press, New York, 1978.
• Massey, James K., “Uninterruptible Power Systems and Other Power Protection Equipment for Electronic Health Care Systems,” Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. III. Issue 3-4, Plenum Press, New York, 1979.
• Massey, James K., “An Introduction to Computer Systems in the Clinical Lab,” The Annual Review of Clinical Laboratory Systems, Med-Sy Inc., 1980.
• Massey, James K. and Austin, James J., Session Co-Chairmen, “Human Computer Data Interfaces for Medical Professionals”, HICSS-13, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 1980.
• Massey, James K., and Noland, Robert, Conference Co-Chairmen, Biomedical Instrument Interface Standards Conference, Gainesville, Florida, 5-6 December 1980.
• Massey, James K., “A Report on the Biomedical Instrument Interface Standards Conference.”, HICSS-14, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 1981.
• Massey, James K., Session Chairman, “Computer Communications in Health Care Delivery”, HICSS-14, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 1981.
• Massey, James K., Noland, Robert, Michelevich, David, Conference Co-Chairmen, The Second Biomedical Interface Standards Conference, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Dallas, TX, April 26-27, 1981.
• Massey, James K., “Physical Hazards Affecting Computers in the Hospital”, Med-Sy Reports, Medical Systems Research, Inc., 1981.
• Wilkinson EJ, Nyeem R, Massey JK, Trost DC., “Condylomata acuminata of the cervix: histopathology and association with cervical neoplasia.”, Int J Gynecol Pathol. 1983;2(2):224-5. 
• Grams, Ralph M.D., Trost, Donald C. M.D., Repp, Mark M.D., Massey, James K., and Berkow, Robert M.D., “Knowledge Based Library Systems for Medical Practice”, 4th Jerusalem Conference on Information Technology, May 21-25, 1984, Jerusalem, Israel.
• Grams, R., Peck, Georgina C., Massey, James K., and Austin, James J., “Review of Hospital Data Processing in the United States (1982-1984)”, Journal of Medical Systems, Vol IX, #4, Plenum Press, New York, August, 1985.
• Grams, Ralph, Massey, James K., Hickey, Scott, and Jin, Ming, “Diagnostic Library Support Systems for Medical Practice”, J Med Syst. 1985 Dec;9(5-6):401-23.  Also presented at Hippocrates 2001, November 4-6, 1985, Monte Carlo, The Principality of Monaco.
• Grams RR, Massey JK, Jin ZM, Hickey S., “Medical diagnostic support for spacecraft. The NASA project”, J Med Syst. 1986 Apr;10(2):185-94. 
• Wilkinson, Edward J., Marshall, Anne P., Massey, James K., and Chen, Jane, “Are There Two Types of Papillary Endometrial Adenocarcinoma, And If So, What Are They?” International Journal of Gynecological Pathology, Vol 5, 1986, pp 278-281.
• Grams, Ralph, Buchanan, Paul, Massey, James, Jin, Ming, “A PC-Based Free Text DSS for Health Care:  Case Studies and Applications,” J Med Syst. 1987 Feb;11(1):83-93.  Also presented at and published in the Proceedings of the Twentieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kona, Hawaii, January 6-9, 1987.
• Massey, James, Grams, Ralph, Jin, Ming, “A PC-Based Free Text Retrieval System for Health Care Providers:  Design and Development,” J Med Syst. 1987 Feb;11(1):69-81.  Also presented at and published in Proceedings of the Twentieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kona, Hawaii, January 6-9, 1987.
• Wilkinson, Edward J., Cook, Jean C., Friedrich, Eduard G. Jr., and Massey, James K., “Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia:  Association with Cigarette Smoking,” Colposcopy & Gynecologic Laser Surgery, Vol 4, #3, 1988, pp153-159.
• Rand, Kenneth H., Hoon, Emily F., Massey, James K., and Johnson, James H., “Does Psychological/Emotional Stress Trigger Recurrence of Genital Herpes Simplex (HSV)?”, Conference Presentation at the 1988 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
• Rand, Kenneth H., Hoon, Emily F., Massey, James K., and Johnson, James H., “Daily Stress and Recurrence of Genital Herpes Simplex”, Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol 150, 1990, pp 1889-1893.
• Berman JJ, Moore GW, Donnelly WH, Massey JK, Craig B., “A SNOMED analysis of three years’ accessioned cases (40,124) of a surgical pathology department: implications for pathology-based demographic studies”, Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1994;:188-92. 
• Zander DS, Iturraspe JA, Everett ET, Massey JK, Braylan RC., “Flow cytometry. In vitro assessment of its potential application for diagnosis and classification of lymphoid processes in cytologic preparations from fine-needle aspirates”, Am J Clin Pathol. 1994 May;101(5):577-86. 
• Emery, Jacqueline A., Massey, James K., and Rojiani, Amyn, “Ectopic Neurons in Hemispheric White Matter: A Morphometric Study”, Conference Presentation at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Neronpathologists, June 8, 1995.
• Rojiani, Amyn M., Emery, Jacqueline, A., Anderson, Kevin J., and Massey, James K., “Distribution of Heterotopic Neurons in Normal Hemispheric White Matter: A Morphometric Analysis.”, Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, Vol 55, No. 2, Feb. 1996, pp 178-183.
• Rand, C.S.W, Kellner, K.R., Revak-Lutz, R., Massey, J.K., “Parental behavior after perinatal death: Twelve Years of Observations”, Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrical Gynecology, 1998, 19:44-48
• Zander DS, Baz MA, Massey JK: Patterns and significance of CD44s expression in lung allografts , Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 1999 Jul;18(7):646-53. Abstract previously published in Modern Pathology 1998;11:182A.  Also presented as a platform presentation at annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Boston, MA, March 3, 1998.
• Yoon, Changwoo, Massey, James K., Donnelly, William H., Dankel, Douglas D. II, “Design and Implementation of Anatomic Pathology Database System”, submitted for presentation at Workshop on Natural Language Processing in the Biomedical Domain, Association for Computational Linguistics 2002 (ACL-02), July 11-12, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March, 2002.
• Rimsza LM, Ahrens KP, Massey JK, Pastos KM, Mainwaring MG, Braylan RC., “AML, angiogenesis, and prognostic variables.”, Blood, 2002, Aug 15;100(4):1517-8.
• Rimsza L, Pastos K, Massey K, Braylan R., “Endothelial stimulation by small lymphocytic lymphoma correlates with secreted levels of basic fibroblastic growth factor.”, Br J Haematol, 2003, Mar;120(5):753-8.

Non-referred Publications

• Massey, James K., “The Intelligent Data Entry Terminal in Clinical Laboratories”, (Abstract only) Eighth Annual Conference of the SCM, Minneapolis, Minn., Oct., 1978.
• Massey, James K., Grams, Ralph R., Nelson, Diane, Douglas, Scott, “Design/Test of an On-line Biomedical Computer Library”, Interim Report, JFK Space Center, 4 December 1981, NAG10-0004.
• Massey, James K., “Computers in the Practice of Medicine,” Book Review, Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 5, Issue 6, 1982.
• Wilkinson, Edward J., Nyeem, Rasheda, Massey, James K., and Trost, Donald C., “Some Comments on the article regarding Condylomata acuminata of the cervix,” International Journal of Gynecological Pathology, Raven Press, New York, 1983.
• Dolson, David J., Hanson, Robert, Massey, James K., Duque, Ricardo E., and Ballinger, William E. Jr., “Oligodendrogliomas and Prognostic Factors:  A Flow Cytometric, Histologic, and Clinical Analysis,” Selected as outstanding paper at the 1989 Fall Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and the College of American Pathologists.  Published (abstract only) in American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Vol 92, #4, 1989 (p534).  Also presented at the January 1989 Meeting of the Florida Society of Pathologists.
• Maclaren, N., Riley, W., Massey, K., Allen, L., Brown, L., Weber, T., Lernmark, A., “Participation in Islet Cell Antibody (ICA) Proficiency Surveys Improves Performance.”  14th International Diabetes Federation Congress.  June 23-28, 1991, Washington, D.C.
• Riley, W., Maclaren, N., Brown, L., Allen, L., Massey, K., Lernmark, A., “Worldwide Proficiency Survey for Islet Cell Autoantibodies.”  14th International Diabetes Diabetes Federation Conference.  June 23-28, 1991, Washington, D.C.
• Maclaren, N., Riley, W., Massey, K., Allen, L., Brown, L., Weber, T., Lernmark, A., “Participation in Islet Cell Antibody (ICA) Proficiency Surveys Improves Performance.”  14th International Diabetes Federation Congress.  June 23-28, 1991, Washington, D.C.
• Wilkinson, E., Hendricks, J., Pharis, P., Hammam, M., Massey, K., Hardt, N., “An evaluation of DNA Ploidy and Survival in Cervical Adenocarcinoma Patients.”   1992 Spring Meeting of The American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology.  March 28, 1992, Orlando, Florida.