Medical Informatics Training at Columbia University and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center

Abstract:

The Department of Medical Informatics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons consists of a faculty of 17 full-and part-time faculty. The Department faculty collaborate with the Department of Computer Science and several clinical departments of the medical center. We offer courses in medical informatics, formal degrees (M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D.) and a postdoctoral training program. In addition to academic offerings, the close affiliation with the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and the primary responsibilities for clinical information systems offers trainees unique opportunities to work with and develop real-world applications. Faculty research programs include work on the Integrated Advanced Information Management System (IAIMS), Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), High-Perfor-mance Computing and Communications (HPCC), Electronic Medical Records, automated decision support and technology transfer through the Center for Advanced Technology.

Keywords:

Medical Informatics - Education - Training - Training Program - Graduate Program

 

• Sample of Faculty Publications

• 1 Allen BA, Levinthal C. CARTOS II semi-automated nerve tracing: three-di-mensional reconstruction from serial section micrographs. Comput Med Imag Graph 1990; 14: 319-29.
• 2 Barrows Jr. RC, Allen B, Fink DJ. An X Window system for statlab results reporting. In: Safran C. ed. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. . New York: McGraw-Hill; 1993: 331-5.
• 3 Cimino JJ, Aguirre A, Johnson SB, Peng P. Generic queries for meeting clinical information needs. Bull Med Lib Assoc 1993; 81: 195-206.
• 4 Cimino JJ, Clayton PD, Hripcsak G, Johnson SB. Knowledge-based approaches to the Maintenance of a large controlled medical terminology. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1994; 1: 35-50.
• 5 Cimino JJ. Data storage and knowledge representation for clinical workstations. Intern J Bio-Med Coin put 1994; 34: 185-94.
• 6 Cimino JJ, Johnson SB. Use of the unitied medical language system in patient care. Meth Inform Med 1995. in press
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• 8 Clayton PD. Integrated advanced medical information systems (IAIMS): payoffs and problems. Meth Inform Med 1994; 33: 351-7.
• 9 Friedman C, Sideli R. Tolerating spelling erros during patient validation. Comput Biomed Res 1992; 25: 486-509.
• 10 Friedman C, Alderson PO, Austin JHM, Cimino JJ, Johnson SB. A general natural language text processor for clinical radiology. J Am Medic Inform Assoc 1994; 1: 161-74.
• 11 Friedman C, Cimino JJ, Johnson SB. A schema for representing medical Ianguage applied to clinical radiology. J Am Medic Inform Assoc 1994; 1: 233-48.
• 12 Friedman C, Huff SM, Hersh WR, Pattison-Gordon E, Cimino JJ. The Canon effort: working toward a merged model. J Am Medic Inform Assoc 1995; 2: 4-18.
• 13 Johnson SB, Cimino JJ, Friedman C, Hripcsak G, Clayton PD. Usingmetadata to integrate medical knowledge in a clinical information system. In: Miller RA. ed. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. . 1990: 340-4.
• 14 Johnson SB, Aguirre A, Peng P, Cimino JJ. Interpreting natural language queries using the UMLS. In: Safran C. ed. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications Medical Care. . New York: McGraw-Hill; 1993: 294-8.
• 15 Hripcsak G. Using connectionist modules for decision support. Meth Inform Medic 1990; 29: 167-81.
• 16 Hripcsak G. Arden syntax for medical logic modules. MD Comput 1991; 8: 76-8.
• 17 Hripcsak G, Cimino JJ, Johnson SB, Clayton PD. The Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center decision-support system as a model for implementing the Arden Syntax. In: Clayton PD. ed. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. 1991: 248-52.
• 18 Hripcsak G, Clayton PD, Cimino JJ, Johnson SB, Friedman C. Medical decision support at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. In: Timmers T, Blum BI. eds.Software Engineering in Medical Informatics. Amsterdam: North-Hoi land; 1991: 471-9.
• 19 Hripcsak G, Johnson SB, Clayton PD. Desperately seeking data: knowledge base-database links. In: Safran C. ed. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. . New York: McGraw-Hill; 1993: 639-43.
• 20 Hripcsak G. Monitoring the monitor: automated statistical tracking of a clinical event monitor. Comput Biomed Res 1993; 26: 449-66.
• 21 Hripcsak G, Friedman C, Alderson PO, DuMouchel W, Johnson SB, Clayton PD. Unlocking clinical data from narrative reports: a study of natural language processing. Ann Intern Med 1995; 122: 681-88.
• 22 Johnson S, Friedman C, Cimino JJ, Clark T, Hripcsak G, Clayton PD. Conceptual data model for a central patient database. In: Clayton PD. ed. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. . 1991: 381-5.
• 23 Pryor TA, Hripcsak G. The Arden syntax for medical logic modules. Intern J Clinic Monitor Comput 1993; 10: 215-24.
• 24 Sengupta S, Clayton PD, Molholt P, Sideli RV, Cimino JJ, Hripcsak G, Johnson SB, Allen B, McCormack M, Hill C. IAIMS and sharing. Intern J Bio-Medic Comput 1994; 34: 339-48.
• 25 Sherman EH, Shortliffe EH. A user-adaptable interface to predict users’ needs. In: Schneider-Hufschmidt T, Kuhme T, Malinowski T. eds.Adaptive User Inter faces: Principle and Practice. Amster dam: North-Holland; 285-315.
• 26 Zimmerman JL, Lang WP, Williams JN, Spohn EE. DENTIN (Dental Informarep tion Network) a communications and information resource for dental education and practice. J Dent Educ 1994; 58: 241-5.
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