Yves A. Lussier

Yves A. Lussier
Born Canada Montreal, Canada
Fields Precision medicine, Translational bioinformatics, Personal Genomics, Personalized medicine, Cancer and Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Ontologies, Medical Language Processing
Institutions University of Arizona
University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System
The University of Chicago
Columbia University
Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Sherbrooke (CHUS)
Alma mater Columbia University
Université de Sherbrooke
Université Laval
Academic advisors James J. Cimino, Carol Friedman, Roger Côté
Doctoral students Ying Tao, MD, PhD; IBM Research[1]
Other notable students Michal Cantor,MD,MSc; NYU, Pfizer[2]
James L. Chen, MD Ohio State College of Medicine[3]
Younghee Lee, PhD[4] U of Utah
Known for -co-founder of Development Purkinje (Purkinje Incorporated)[5]
-co-Founder and 2009 Chair
AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics[6]
-VigiLens Health Monitor[7]
Influenced Clinical Pen computing
Translational Bioinformatics
Notable awards

-Inducted Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (2005)[8]
-IBM Faculty Awards[9] 2003,2004[10]
-1st recipient,[11] Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award[12]

-Outstanding Paper Awards, 2008(2),2009,2010, 2011 Summit for Translational Bioinformatics AMIA
- Distinguished paper award 2011 AMIA[13]
- Best papers awards, Translational Bioinformatics Conference 2012[14] and 2013
- “Highlights of the Year” paper recognition, ISCB at their Annual Meeting ISMB 2006, 2010, 2012, 2016
-1994 Innovation "Octas"[15]
Notes

Yves A. Lussier, M.D., Professional Engineer, is a physician-scientist conducting research in Precision medicine, Translational bioinformatics and Personal Genomics. As a co-founder of Purkinje, he pioneered the commercial use of controlled medical vocabulary organized as directed semantic networks in electronic medical records (1st clinical ontology available commercially), as well as Pen computing for clinicians.[16] He was invited a the White House Precision Medicine Initiative summit.[17]

Biography and career

Dr. Lussier works in both clinical medicine and biomedical informatics. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona, Associate Vice President (Chief knowledge officer) at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, Associate Director of BIO5,[18] and Associate Director for Informatics and Precision Medicine of the UA Cancer Center.[19]

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