During the early-1970s, for my doctoral dissertation, I was principal developer of the clinical expert system known as MYCIN. After a pause for internal medicine house-staff training at Harvard and Stanford between 1976 and 1979, I joined the Stanford internal medicine faculty where I directed a research program in biomedical informatics. My interests include the broad range of issues related to integrated decision-support systems and their effective implementation. In the early 1980s, I worked to create the Stanford degree program in biomedical informatics. From 1995-1999, I served as Associate Dean for Information Resources and Technology at Stanford University School of Medicine. I then moved to Columbia University, where I served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics from January 2000 to March 2007. At that time I moved to Arizona to become the founding dean of the Phoenix campus of the University of Arizona's College of Medicine. I stepped down from that role in May 2008 and, in January 2009, transitioned to a primary academic appointment as Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University. In July 2009, I succeeded Dr. Don E. Detmer as President and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association. Although AMIA is based in Bethesda, MD, I maintain my primary residence in Phoenix.
My publications through the end of the 1990s are summarized on the Stanford Medical Informatics site. More recent publications are available on the DBMI site. Other details are available in my Curriculum Vitae. Books include: