James J. "Jim" Cimino is an American physician-scientist and biomedical informatician. He is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Informatics Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.[4]
James J. Cimino | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Controlled Medical Vocabulary (Medical Entity Dictionary,[2] Research Entity Dictionary, UMLS) Infobuttons[3] |
| Awards | Medal of Honor, NYMC President’s Award, AMIA NIH Clinical Center Director's Award for BTRIS[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medical concept representation Controlled vocabulary Biomedical Informatics Medical decision making |
| Institutions | |
| Academic advisors | G. Octo Barnett |
| Doctoral students | Eneida A. Mendonça |
| Other notable students | Yves A. Lussier |
Education and training
editCimino received a Sc.B. in Biology from Brown University in 1977 and an M.D. from New York Medical College in 1981. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Saint Vincent’s Hospital and a fellowship in medical informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital.[5]
Career
editCimino pioneered the theory and formalisms of medical concept representation underpinning the use of controlled medical vocabularies in electronic medical records in support of clinical decision-making. Training under Octo Barnett at Harvard University, he also contributed to the initiation of the Unified Medical Language System. In addition, he actively practices medicine as an internist and has devoted many years to develop and innovate clinical information systems that have been integrated in the New York–Presbyterian Hospital, and the Columbia University Medical Center.
Cimino currently serves as Professor of Medicine, inaugural Director of the Informatics Institute, and Informatics Director for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at the UAB School of Medicine.[6] He was previously Chief of the Laboratory for Informatics Development at the NIH Clinical Center and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University (2002-2007). At Columbia, he mentored Yves A. Lussier.[7] He remains an adjunct professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia.[8]
Cimino has published over 200 articles; as of October 2021, his H-index is 72.[9]
References
edit- ^ "Biomedical Translational Research Information System". btris.nih.gov.
- ^ "Medical Entities Dictionary". med.dmi.columbia.edu.
- ^ "The Columbia University Infobutton Manager". people.dbmi.columbia.edu.
- ^ "Elected at The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science 2014". iom.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-02-14. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
- ^ "UASOM Faculty Profiles: James Cimino". apps.medicine.uab.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
- ^ "News - Renowned expert named inaugural director of UAB Informatics Institute". UAB News.
- ^ "Pioneering a New Era of Biomedical Informatics". uofuhealth.utah.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
- ^ "Faculty Page - Columbia DBMI". Retrieved 2021-10-21.
- ^ "James Cimino - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com.
External links
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- James Cimino at the American College of Medical Informatics
- Jim Cimino at Columbia University
- Medline Publications
- James J. Cimino publications indexed by Google Scholar
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