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Shortliffe Tapped to Lead AMIA


September 5, 2008

The American Medical Informatics Association has named Edward Shortliffe, M.D., as its incoming president and CEO.

Shortliffe, a founding member of the Bethesda, Md.-based association, will succeed Don Detmer, M.D., who will retire next year. Shortliffe will start his new duties on a part-time transition basis in January and assume the roles full-time in July.

Shortliffe is a veteran of the medical informatics industry. He is a professor of basic medical sciences at the University of Arizona and a professor of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University.

He previously served in senior medical informatics positions at 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.

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