James J. Cimino

James J. Cimino
Born	USA
Fields	Medical concept representation Controlled vocabulary Biomedical Informatics Medical decision making
Institutions	United States National Library of Medicine Columbia University
Alma mater	Brown University New York Medical College Harvard University
Academic advisors	G. Octo Barnett
Doctoral students	Eneida A. Mendonça Qing T. Zeng[1] Elizabeth Chen Alex Yu Chintan Patel[2] Xinxin (Katie) Zhu[3]
Other notable students	Peter D. Stetson[4] Yves A. Lussier Rita Kukafka David Baorto David Wajngurt Mureen Allen
Known for	Controlled Medical Vocabulary (Medical Entity Dictionary,[5] Research Entity Dictionary, UMLS) Infobuttons[6]
Notable awards	Elected Member, IOM Fellow, ACP Fellow, ACMI Medal of Honor, NYMC Fellow, NYAM President’s Award, AMIA NIH Clinical Center Director's Award for BTRIS[7]

James J. Cimino, MD, is a physician-scientist and biomedical informatician elected in 2014 to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science.^[8] He 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.

Currently, Dr. Cimino is the inaugural director of the Informatics Institute in the School of Medicine and co-director of the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science.^[9] Previously, Dr. Cimino was Chief of the Laboratory for Informatics Development at the NIH Clinical Center, and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University.

Dr. Cimino has published over 200 articles.

Publications

• Medline Publications
• Google Scholar Citations

References

1. Qing Zeng, Assoc Prof of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah
2. Chintan Patel on Linkedin
3. XinXin (Katie) Zhu on LinkedIn
4. Peter Stetson, Assistant professor of Medicine, Columbia University
7. Biomedical Translational Research Information System BTRIS
8. Elected at The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science 2014
9. Renowned expert named inaugural director of UAB Informatics Institute

External links

• Jim Cimino at the NIH
• Jim CImino at Columbia University