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James J. Cimino, M.D.

James J. Cimino is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Columbia University. He received a Bachelor of Science in biology from Brown University in 1977, an MD from New York Medical College in 1981, completed an internal medicine residency (with board certification) in 1984, and a medical informatics fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 1988. During his fellowship, he was primarily responsible for the development of a knowledge base for a medical diagnosis system (DXplain), contributed to the initial development of the National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and worked on terminology issues for DXplain and the Computer Stored Ambulatory Record (COSTAR).

Since 1988, he has been at Columbia, where his time is divided between patient care, teaching, research, and development. He teaches a variety of courses in the Department of Medical Informatics and is a clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine in the in-patient and out-patient services. One area of his research involves controlled medical terminologies for clinical decision support (particularly in the development of expert systems approaches to terminology management) and he is developing the controlled medical terminology for use in the comprehensive clinical information system for New York Presbyterian Hospital. Another area of research involves the use of Internet resources to support patient care. To explore this, he is developing an Internet-based clinical information system, now in actual use, that integrates information sources from the World Wide Web into the clinician's workstation. He is also exploring how these applications can be effectively extended to wireless, hand-held platforms.

He is currently the principal investigator on a National Library of Medicine Independent Investigator Grant to explore ways of addressing clinicians’ information needs. He has been principal investigator on a National Information Infrastructure (NII) contract and a National Heart Attack Alert Program contract (both from the National Library of Medicine), was co-principal investigator on a Digital Library Initiative grant from the National Science Foundation, and was principal investigator for ten years on a departmental training grant from the National Library of Medicine. He has served on the scientific program committees for 7 national and 2 international medical informatics meetings, including chairing the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium in 1996. He has over 220 publications, including 33 first-authored papers in peer-reviewed medical informatics journals. He has been a reviewer for the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and for the journal Computer, has been on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and is currently on the editorial boards of Methods of Information in Medicine, Medicine on the Net, and the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

He is a member of the Columbia University Faculty Council and HL7, and is a founding member of AMIA, where he has been elected to four terms on the Board of Directors from 1994 to present (including Secretary). He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 1992. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 1998.