Frederick Charles Druseikis was born at a very young age and spent most of his youth in upstate New York near Rochester. He attended elementary, junior high school, and high school in Churchville-Chili (NY) School District. He graduated from the Fairmont East High School in Kettering, Ohio, in 1967. He traces his interest in computers and computing back to allied interests in radio, electricity and electronics in the late 1950's. He built working models of analog and digital computers in 1960 as part of the then popular "Science Fair" movement He first learned programming in 1968 as an undergraduate in the Mathematics Department at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Druseikis earned his undergraduate degree in Mathematic and graduate degress in Computer Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Ralph Griswold, one of the inventors of the SNOBOL language, directed his dissertation. Starting in 1975 Dr. Druseikis held an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona before joining Bell Telephone Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in 1977. He prospered in a career as an industrial computer scientist at Bell Labs, AT&T, the NCR Corporation, and the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center, where he was actively involved in the development of software and networking products, voice technology, and object-oriented technologies and products, both as an individual contributor and technical manager. He contributed to several OMG (Object Management Group) CORBA ISO standards in the area of object technology. For reference, Dr. Druseikis taught SNOBOL4, Pascal, Simula-67, and PDP-10 assembly language in the 1970s; has used Unix and programmed in the C-language since 1977; C++ since 1986; Windows since 1995; Java since the late 1990's; and has been a user of the Internet since 1981.
In 1995 he joined a newly formed Columbia-based e-health subsidiary HealthMagic of Adventist Health Systems/Sunbelt. There he was chief architect for one of the first Internet-based personal health records, which was deployed at the Walt Disney Company's planned community of Celebration, Florida for the clinic operated by Florida Hospital. The HealthCompass system was widely marketed and subsequently adopted by drkoop.com. In 2000 he co-founded Identity&Security, Inc. in the area of health information technology and HIPAA security. That venture was acquired in 2001 by Integrys Solutions, LLC.
Dr. Druseikis joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of the University of South Carolina in 2001 as Research Associate Professor. He is presently Adjunct Professor.
Starting in 2002 he held an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Health Services & Policy Research of the Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health. There he was a cofounder with John Woods of the South Carolina Pay-for-Performance Forum, an educational forum sponsored by major hospitals in South Carolina for exploring the application of statistical quality control in health policy and health services research.
Since 2006 he has been System Architect with Univerisity Technology Services where he is responsible for new applications architecture in support of the OneCarolina program.
His past research interests include health care applications of the public Internet, e-commerce in health care, privacy, security, and distributed object technology, as applied to the information systems problems of health services research
He is married to Dianne E. Britton, who together have four children and three grandchildren. For hobbies he plays traditional music and enjoys folk dancing. He is presently serving as president of the Columbia Old Time Music and Dance association. He is an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA).