Directory Profile
Edward H. Shortliffe
Visiting Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Dr. Shortliffe has been cross appointed in BMI since March 2007, when he moved from Columbia University to become the founding dean of the Phoenix campus of the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He has also served on the medical faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine. A leader in the field of biomedical informatics throughout his career, he also is author of the major textbook in the field and a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. He stepped down from his Dean's role in May 2008 and is now dividing his time between his roles as a Professor of Basic Medical Sciences and of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, and as a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at ASU.
Shortliffe has been closely involved with medical education and biomedical informatics graduate training. His research interests include the broad range of issues related to integrated decision-support systems, their effective implementation and the role of the Internet in health care.
Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics
Education
M.D. - Stanford University 1976
Ph.D. Medical Information Sciences - Stanford University 1975
Contact Info
Office Location: ABC 227
Phone: 602.827.2010
Email: edward.shortliffe@asu.edu
Website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~shortlif/
Research/Areas of Expertise
- Clinical decision-support systems
- Collaborative technologies
- Role of internet in health care
- Informatics research policy
Honors and Distinctions
- Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science
- Editor in Chief, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, January 2001-present.
- Grace Murray Hopper Award, Association for Computing Machinery, October 1976.
- Research Career Development Award, National Library of Medicine, July 1979—June 1984.
- Morris Collen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Medical Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, November 2006
Selected Publications
Shortliffe, E.H. Computer-Based Medical Consultations: MYCIN, Elsevier/North Holland, New York, 1976.
Buchanan, B.G. and Shortliffe, E.H. (eds). Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1984.
Clancey, W.J. and Shortliffe, E.H. (eds). Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence: The First Decade. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1984.
Shortliffe, E.H. and Cimino, J.J. Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (3rd edition). New York: Springer-Verlag, 2006.
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