George Hripcsak, MD, MS, is professor and interim chair of Columbia University's Department of Biomedical Informatics, director of medical informatics services for New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and senior informatics advisor at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He led the effort to create the Arden Syntax, a language for representing health knowledge that has become a national standard. His Applied Informatics project - funded by the US Department of Commerce to link the medical center, a home care agency, and the New York City Department of Health to improve inner-city tuberculosis care- won the National Information Infrastructure award. Dr. Hripcsak's current research focus is on the clinical information stored in electronic medical records. Using data mining techniques, such as machine learning and natural language processing, he is developing the methods necessary to support clinical research and patient safety initiatives. Dr. Hripcsak was a elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 1995 and served on the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). As chair of the AMIA Standards Committee, he coordinated the medical-informatics community response to the Department of Health and Human Services for the health-informatics standards rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. He chaired the Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine through 2005. He has served as associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and of Computers in Biology and Medicine, and he is an editorial board member of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. He received his MD and his MS in biostatistics from Columbia University. |
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