American College of Medical Informatics Fellows and International Associates, 2005

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1 360 MASYS, ACMI Fellows and International Associates, 2005 Special Features n American College of Medical Informatics Fellows and International Associates, 2005 DANIEL R. MASYS, MD j J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13: DOI /jamia.M2057. Alan R. Aronson, PhD Lan Aronson received his bachelor s degree in mathematics magna cum laude from the University of Washington in Seattle, a master s degree in mathematics, and both master s and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland. He has been a computer scientist at the National Library of Medicine s (NLM) Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications since In a highly productive research program, he has developed a broad array of applications that use the Metathesaurus and other UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) knowledge components. Among these are MetaMap, which is a program that automatically maps text to concepts in the Metathesaurus, and a Medical Text Indexer System, which produces automated MeSH indexing of meeting abstracts and suggests appropriate MeSH headings to NLM s MEDLINE indexers. He also developed a Natural Language Processing (NLP) subset tag that has been incorporated into the Metathesaurus to assist NLP researchers. Dr. Aronson s election to the College recognizes the substantial impact his innovations have had on the productivity of other researchers, and the utility of NLM s global information services. Olivier Bodenreider, MD, PhD Dr. Bodenreider received his MD degree from the University of Strasbourg, France; a research degree in informatics, statistics and epidemiology; a master s degree in computer science and another one in medical information; and a PhD in medical informatics, all from the Henri Poincaré University. He began his career as a junior faculty member in France, working on the informatics of clinical toxicology and took a sabbatical year at the NLM. He has been there ever since, working as a staff scientist within the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. Affiliation of the author: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Correspondence and reprints: Daniel R. Masys, MD, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University, 2209 Garland Avenue, Room 416, Nashville, TN 37332; <daniel.r.masys@vanderbilt.edu>. Received for review: 01/11/06; accepted for publication: 01/31/06. His work has focused on applications of the UMLS. He has developed concept mapping algorithms that are used in national information resources, such as ClinicalTrials.gov, Genetics Home Reference, and Profiles in Science. His algorithms are also embedded in the production indexing aid system used by NLM indexers to index the biomedical literature for MEDLINE. He has been a prolific author, with 55 peer-reviewed publications over the past 15 years. He is widely recognized for his work in biomedical ontologies and has, in recent years, become increasingly involved in bioinformatics, making him an ideal contributor to ACMI s goal of more closely integrating the fields of clinical/medical informatics and bioinformatics. These skills and contributions to the field are recognized by his election to the College. Steven H. Brown, MD, MS Steven Brown received his bachelor s and MD degrees from Brown University. After internship and residency in internal medicine at Emory University, he joined the faculty at Emory and became involved in the creation of Emory s Computerized Record system named THERESA. His interest in informatics led him to an NLM-sponsored medical informatics fellow at Vanderbilt, and he received his master s degree in biomedical engineering in the years before biomedical informatics became an academic department. He is currently an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt. Steve has a long-standing relationship with the Veterans Administration (VA), having served as the Chief Information Officer of the Tennessee Valley VA, while becoming increasingly involved at the national level with data standards relevant to VA clinical systems. This includes serving as the VA representative to the federal Government Computerized Patient Record Framework project (GCPR) and being the national project leader for the VA s efforts to create standard drug reference terminologies. He was team leader for the RADARx project that developed automated methods for adverse drug event discovery, which received a VA national safety award. He also directs the national VA Compensation and Pension Exam Program (CPEP). CPEP is program dedicated to improving the quality of veteran s disability examinations via applied informatics and traditional quality improvement techniques. This program performs 500,000 examinations and distributes

2 Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 13 Number 3 May / Jun Alan R. Aronson Olivier Bodenreider Steven H. Brown Juddith A. Effken Rolf Engelbrecht Valerie Florance over $30 billion per year based on the results. Dr. Brown s sustained contributions have advanced a systems approach to health care within the VA that has had a favorable impact on the care of literally millions of VA beneficiaries, and his ongoing work is advancing the cause of interoperability for a true National Health Information Infrastructure. The scope and effect of his work are recognized by his election to the College. Juddith A. Effken, PhD, RN Dr. Effken received her bachelor s in psychology from the University of Hartford, a master s in nursing, and a PhD in psychology from the University of Connecticut. She worked as a staff nurse in several health care organizations and began her informatics journey as a hospital information system consultant in the mid-1980s. She moved from Connecticut to join the faculty of the University of Arizona College of Nursing in 1995, where she is currently an associate professor. Her research has been in several areas, including the application of ecological psychology to help refine clinical system user interfaces to improve recognition of critical events and reduce errors. She also introduced to nursing the use of computational modeling to address organizational change over time and simulate the effect of patient safety and quality innovations in a virtual environment. Her paper describing this method won the 2004 Harriet Worley award for contributions to the field of nursing informatics. She led the development of an online nursing doctoral program, and chairs the AMIA Nursing Workgroup task force that has obtained a Standard Occupational Code for Nursing Informatics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Her election to the College recognizes her substantial and sustained contributions to nursing informatics. Rolf Engelbrecht, International Associate Professor Rolf Engelbrecht directs the National Research Center for Environment and Health in Neuherberg, Germany. He is a past president of the European Federation for Medical Informatics and past vice president of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Europe. Dr. Engelbrecht has, over many years, investigated the use of smart cards as portable electronic medical records. He is a long-standing scholar, teacher, and author in biomedical informatics. Professor Engelbrecht is elected as an International Associate in recognition of the broad scope of impact of his efforts in advancing the art and science of biomedical informatics in Europe and worldwide. Valerie Florance, PhD Dr. Florance received her bachelor s degree in medical anthropology from the University of Utah, a master s degree in library from Brigham Young University, and a PhD in information and library science from the University of Maryland. She has held medical library administrator positions at the University of Utah, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Rochester. She was project director for the Better Health project of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and served as principal investigator of the Next Generation Integrated Advanced Information and Management System (IAIMS) project supported by NLM and conducted by AAMC to gather the lessons learned from the IAIMS program and guide its further evolution.

3 362 MASYS, ACMI Fellows and International Associates, 2005 Paul Gorman Robert Allen Jenders Holly Brügge Jimison She joined NLM in 2001 and is now Deputy Director of Extramural Programs. In this capacity, she is responsible for all NLM research grants relevant to clinical informatics and consequently plays a critical role in advising applicants, following applications through review, selecting applications for funding, and monitoring the progress of awarded grants. Valerie, along with Frank Davidoff, wrote a landmark paper on the new job category of informationist and was a member of the Medical Library Association s Informationist Task Force. Her election to the College recognizes these sustained and varied contributions to the field. Paul Gorman, MD Paul received his bachelor s degree in biological sciences from the University of Chicago and his MD from Rush Medical College. He completed postgraduate training in internal medicine at Rush Presbyterian and the VA Medical Center in Portland, OR. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology and Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University and Assistant Director of Medical Education, Providence Portland Medical Center. Dr. Gorman is internationally known for his research on the information needs, information seeking, and information use (ISU) by clinicians. He significantly expanded understanding of ISU in health care by emphasizing primary care and especially rural primary care, by including nonphysician clinicians. Dr. Gorman expanded on conventional notions of information seeking by clinicians in his National Science Foundation funded project entitled Tracking Footprints in an Information Space. He has worked with ACMI Fellow Joan Ash and other colleagues on the design and conduct of a multisite, multidisciplinary observational research program on physician order entry that has on an ongoing basis documented its limited application in U.S. hospitals. Dr. Gorman has been successful at applying concepts and skills of informatics research to the emerging patient safety agenda, as Principal Investigator or Co-investigator on four Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded patient safety projects, including a current project focused on Using IT to Improve Medication Safety for Rural Elders. For these varied and substantial contributions to the field, he is recognized by election to the College. Robert Allen Jenders, MD, MS Robert Jenders received his bachelor s degree in computer science from Marquette University, his MD from the University of Wisconsin, and a master s degree in computer science from Northeastern University. After a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, he joined the faculty at Columbia University, and for the past three years has been Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA while practicing at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. Dr. Jenders began his work with Arden Syntax shortly after its initial publication as an American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard in 1992 and has led efforts for its continued development as well as promoted its use by vendors and health care institutions. He has been the co-chair of the Health Level 7 Clinical Decision Support Technical committee since Over this time, this committee has expanded its area of influence considerably to include several other key clinical decision support technologies including the Infobutton, computable guidelines, and order sets in addition to ongoing development and dissemination of the Arden Syntax. Dr. Jenders developed a multihospital immunization registry (EzVac) in New York City that facilitated data sharing among the participating institutions and with local government to allow better delivery of vaccination services. This work was reflected in his membership of the Workgroup on Immunization Registries of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee that published a national action plan in This work continues through participation in the technical working group of the National Immunization Program. His election to the College recognizes these varied and sustained contributions to the field. Holly Brügge Jimison, PhD Holly Jimison received her bachelor s degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois and her PhD in medical information science from Stanford University. She has been at the University of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland for the past 13 years in various capacities and is currently Associate Professor of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology there. Her research interests have ranged over a wide area, including methods for representation of probabilities and utilities within decision support applications, development of pattern recognition algorithms for automated electrocardiography analysis and ultrasound tissue characterization, adaptive algorithms for control of ventilators, use of multimedia for improving the informed consent process, and consumer health informatics.

4 Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 13 Number 3 May / Jun Yves A. Lussier Judy Murphy Thomas C. Rindflesch She is currently attempting to invent a new subspecialty of informatics named neural informatics, which is the understanding of how information processing occurs in the central nervous system. She is also is principal investigator of a research project entitled Technology for Early Detection and Intervention of Cognitive Decline. Her election to the College recognizes the depth and breadth of her varied contributions to the field. Yves A. Lussier, MD Dr. Lussier received his bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering and MD degree from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada and also completed postgraduate training in family medicine there. He then joined the family medicine faculty at Sherbrooke. He cofounded an electronic medical records company called Purkinje and began his informatics career developing and evaluating pen-based computer interfaces for clinical data. He helped extend the SNOMED vocabulary to add terms related to primary care and created the notion of semantic filters for problem-oriented views of medical records. With the human genome project under way, Yves saw that the future of medicine was going to be influenced by genomics and other forms of large volume, noisy molecular data. He is currently involved with the emerging specialty of phenomics, which is the systematic correlation of known chemical and functional properties of organisms with their genes and proteins. He has also engineered a gene chip for vertebrate viral detection that accurately detects any of over 1,700 known viruses that is currently being validated in China and Australia. His election to the College recognizes his scholarly, pragmatic, and community service contributions to the field. Judy Murphy, RN, BSN Judy Murphy is currently Vice President for Information Services at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, an integrated delivery network with 14 hospitals, 100 ambulatory centers and clinics, three home health agencies, and over 25,000 employees. Judy is a registered nurse by clinical training, and she created the now commonplace concept of charting by exception, which paved the way for efficient electronic record keeping by nurses. She consistently focuses on the perspective of the practicing nurse in the applied nursing informatics arena and possesses significant self-taught, real-life experience that enables her to consistently bridge the academic/ practice gap. She effectively brings forth the voice of nursing into the operations of clinical information systems design and deployment. In her current role as Vice President, Information Services for a large integrated delivery network, Ms. Murphy leads a workforce of more than 125 in translating new informatics ideas into practical information systems. Additionally, for over ten years, Ms. Murphy has been teaching clinicians in project management through workshops at AMIA, Medinfo, Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, the International Nursing Informatics Congress, and other health information technology conferences. Her election to the College recognizes her contributions to organizational and technology management in health care settings. Thomas C. Rindflesch, PhD Dr. Rindflesch received his bachelor s degree in Arabic and master s and PhD degrees in linguistics, all from the University of Minnesota. He then went to the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, where he has been working as a computational linguist since There he has developed and demonstrated the effectiveness of techniques for combining relatively simple minimum commitment (otherwise known as shallow ) text parsing with electronic domain knowledge to extract domain concepts and interpret their relationships in biomedical text. Dr. Rindflesch has worked effectively with a wide variety of collaborators to make steady progress on developing programs that extract usable semantic information from text and has made his tools readily available for use by other researchers. He has also applied them to operational systems at the NLM, for example, using natural language processing techniques on the published clinical trials literature to audit compliance with registration of National Institutes of Health clinical trials in ClinicalTrials.gov. Dr. Rindflesch s election to the College recognizes the substantial impact his contributions have had on the productivity of other researchers and on the increasing value of NLM s global information services. Nancy K. Roderer, MLS Nancy received a bachelor s degree in mathematics and science from the University of Dayton and a master s degree in library science from the University of Maryland. She began a career of creating and evaluating informatics systems and

5 364 MASYS, ACMI Fellows and International Associates, 2005 Nancy K. Roderer Yuval Shahar Johanna Westbrook services as a coauthor of an evaluation of NLM s prototype Hepatitis Knowledge Base system in the late 1970s. She was appointed as IAIMS System librarian at Columbia University, later served as Director of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale, and is now Director of the Welch Medical Library. She has been a prime mover in the establishment of the Division of Health Information Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, where she is an associate professor and currently interim director, which was designed to include public health issues from its inception. Her work positioned the University to compete successfully for an NLM Informatics Training Grant and, most recently, for Robert Wood Johnson funding for a Public Health Informatics Track within this broader training program. Her election to the College recognizes sustained contributions to the field for more than 25 years. Yuval Shahar, International Associate Dr. Sharar received his MD from the Hebrew University and his PhD in medical information sciences from Stanford University. He also completed a master s degree in mathematics and computer science from Bar Ilan University and a second master s degree in computer science from Yale University, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In 1985, Dr. Shahar was appointed head of the Medical Computing Section of the Israeli Defense Force, working on a strategic decision-support system connecting 32 hospitals. His first relevant journal paper appeared in 1991, and he has made continuous contributions ever since. He has served as the founding director of the Ben Gurion University Multidisciplinary Medical Informatics Research Center since Dr. Shahar has developed many ideas important to computerbased decision support and reasoning about clinical data that have become influential in the informatics community. His work on temporal abstraction of clinical data is well known in both the informatics community and the computer-science community and has been incorporated in a number of deployed applications. His work on a computational knowledge-based framework known as RÉSUMÉ for automated abstraction of time-oriented data into a meaningful, time interval based concepts system is at the core of the query and interpretation module of Stanford University s EON system for guideline-based care, and has become the backbone of several new projects that Dr. Shahar has started at Ben Gurion University for mediation of temporal queries to patient databases over the Web for diagnosis, monitoring, therapy, and clinical research, which is a nice thing to have on your resume. He has also made substantial contributions to the field of computer-based clinical guidelines, is a member of the editorial board of several informatics journals, and an organizer of international symposia on artificial intelligence in clinical care. In recognition of the broad scope of impact of his academic efforts, the College honors Dr. Shahar as an international associate. Johanna Westbrook, International Associate Dr. Westbrook is Deputy Director of the Center for Health Informatics and Associate Professor of Health Informatics at the University of New South Wales. She has had an illustrious career of research in the areas of online evidence retrieval systems, health informatics evaluation, technology assessment, and health care evaluations through the manipulation and analysis of large health data sets. She is a fellow of the Australian College of Health Informatics and is now honored for the international influence of her work by election as an International Associate.