Edward Shortliffe
MD, PhD, MACP, FACMI
Dr. Shortliffe is a professor of Biomedical Informatics and is a Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice Provost for the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Medical Informatics Association and as Founding Dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix.
Edward H. Shortliffe is President and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, based in Bethesda, MD. His academic appointments are as Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and at Arizona State University.
Previously he was Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston and, before that, at Arizona State University. He also served as the founding dean of the Phoenix campus of the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine. From 2000-2007 he was the Rolf A. Scholdager Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University and Professor of Medicine and of Computer Science at Stanford University (1979-2000).
Dr. Shortliffe has spearheaded the formation and evolution of graduate degree programs in biomedical informatics at Stanford, Columbia, and Arizona State University. 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. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Association of American Physicians. He has also been elected to fellowship in the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
A Master of the American College of Physicians, he received the Grace Murray Hopper Award of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1976. Currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Dr. Shortliffe has authored over 300 articles and books in the fields of biomedical computing and artificial intelligence.