Mark Musen

Administrative Appointments

• Principal Investigator, National Center for Biomedical Ontology (2005 - present)
• Co-Editor-in-Chief, Applied Ontology: An International Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling (2005 - present)
• Chair, Health Informatics and Modeling Topic Advisory Group, ICD Revision Steering Group, World Health Organization (2008 - present)
• Head, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (1992 - present)
• Deputy Director for Bioinformatics, Immune Tolerance Network (2005 - 2007)
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Honors and Awards

• Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association (2006)
• General Chair, International Semantic Web Conference (2005)
• Chair, Scientific Program Committee, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (2003)
• Elected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation (1997)
• NSF Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation (1992)

Professional Education

• Ph.D., Stanford University, Medical Information Sciences (1988)
• M.D., Brown University, Medicine (1980)
• Sc.B., Brown University, Biology (1977)

Postdoctoral Advisees

Adrien Coulet, Clement Jonquet

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Biomedical Informatics
• Medicine

Web Site Links

• The National Center for Biomedical Ontology

Research Interests

The construction of automated systems to assist biomedical decision making is impeded by difficulties in formalizing knowledge and in encoding that knowledge for use by the computer. Current work in our laboratory addresses mechanisms by which computers can assist in the development of large, electronic biomedical knowledge bases. Emphasis is placed on new methods for the automated generation of computer-based tools that end-users can use to enter knowledge of specific biomedical content. In particular, we are studying:

- Development of reusable domain descriptions (ontologies) and problem-solving methods

- Automated generation of knowledge-acquisition tools from domain ontologies

- Visual metaphors to facilitate knowledge entry by application specialists

- Decision-support systems for protocol-based care

- Representation of biomedical concepts and terminologies for development of intelligent systems

The Protégé system provides a uniform infrastructure for our work on knowledge modeling and representation.

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology, supported by the NIH Roadmap, develops a new generation of technology for storing, accessing, evaluating, and using online biomedical knowledge resources.

Publications

• Technology for building intelligent systems: from psychology to engineering. Musen MA, "Nebr Symp Motiv" 2007 : (52) : 145-84
• Medical informatics: searching for underlying components. Musen MA, "Methods Inf Med" 2002 ; 1 (41) : 12-9
• Scalable software architectures for decision support. Musen MA, "Methods Inf Med" 1999 ; 4-5 (38) : 229-38
• Domain ontologies in software engineering: use of Protégé with the EON architecture. Musen MA, "Methods Inf Med" 1998 ; 4-5 (37) : 540-50
• The SAGE Guideline Model: achievements and overview. Tu SW, Campbell JR, Glasgow J, Nyman MA, McClure R, McClay J, Parker C, Hrabak KM, Berg D, Weida T, Mansfield JG, Musen MA, Abarbanel RM "J Am Med Inform Assoc" 2007 Sep-Oct ; 5 (14) : 589-98