Mark Musen
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Medicine - Biomedical Informatics Research
- Member, Bio-X
Key Documents
Contact Information
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 725-3390Administrative Contact Natasha Haulman Email Tel Work (650) 725-3279
Professional Overview
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)
Honors and Awards
- General Chair, Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap '11) (2011)
- Elected Member, Association of American Physicians (2010)
- 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)
Professional Education
| Ph.D.: | Stanford University, Medical Information Sciences (1988) |
| M.D.: | Brown University, Medicine (1980) |
| Sc.B.: | Brown University, Biology (1977) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Internet Links
Industry Relationships
Stanford is committed to ethical and transparent interactions with our industrial and other commercial partners. It is our policy to disclose payments (exclusive of travel support) from, and/or equity in, companies or other commercial entities to Stanford faculty of $5,000 or more in total value, as well as any equity in a privately held company, when the faculty member also has institutional responsibilities related to his or her interactions with the company. View Full Information
Scientific Focus
Current 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:
- Representation of biomedical concepts and terminologies for development of intelligent systems
- Development of reusable domain descriptions (ontologies) and problem-solving methods
- Visual metaphors to facilitate knowledge entry by application specialists
- Decision-support systems for use in biomedicine
- Guideline-based and protocol-based clinical care
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 Common Fund, develops a new generation of technology for storing, accessing, evaluating, and using biomedical knowledge resources.
Publications
- The National Center for Biomedical Ontology. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012 Mar-Apr; (2): 190-5
- Applications of ontology design patterns in biomedical ontologies. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2012: 643-52
- Chapter 9: Analyses using disease ontologies. PLoS Comput Biol. 2012; (12): e1002827
- BioPortal: enhanced functionality via new Web services from the National Center for Biomedical Ontology to access and use ontologies in software applications. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011; (Web Server issue): W541-5
- Enabling enrichment analysis with the Human Disease Ontology. J Biomed Inform. 2011: S31-8
- How orthogonal are the OBO Foundry ontologies? J Biomed Semantics. 2011: S2
Help