Ted Shortliffe, a founding member of the American Medical Informatics Association in Bethesda, Md., is the organization's new president and CEO.
He succeeds Don Detmer, M.D., who has retired. Shortliffe started his new duties on a part-time transition basis in January and now assumes the roles full-time.
Shortliffe is a veteran of the medical informatics industry. He most recently served as a professor of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University. He has served in senior positions at the University of Arizona, Columbia College and Stanford University.
Shortliffe is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 300 articles and books in the fields of medical computing and artificial intelligence.
More information is available at amia.org.
--Joseph Goedert
JUL 17, 2009 11:39am ET
Shortliffe Takes the Reins at AMIA
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