Frank Sonnenberg, MD

Frank Sonnenberg, MD, FACP, is Professor of Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and Clinical Associate Professor of Health Informatics at UMDNJ's School of Health Related Professions. He is Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems of the Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Group, the faculty practice of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Director of Health Informatics at UMDNJ. Dr. Sonnenberg received his BS in Biochemistry with Highest Honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his MD from UCLA. He did a residency in Internal Medicine at UCLA and fellowship in Clinical Decision Making and Medical Applications of Computer Science at the New England Medical Center. Dr. Sonnenberg's research has focused on applications of decision modeling to health care including cost-effectiveness analysis. He has been one of the principal developers of Decision Maker, one of the earliest, and still widely used, microcomputer-based decision analysis programs and U-Maker, a microcomputer-based utility assessment program. Dr. Sonnenberg's current research focuses on user-friendly interfaces to decision models and computer-based implementation of clinical guidelines including HGML, the Hypertext Guideline Markup Language, an XML-based markup approach to clinical guideline encoding. Dr. Sonnenberg is currently Editor-in-chief of the journal Medical Decision Making. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is a previous recipient of first prize in the Lee Lusted Student Prize Competition of the Society for Medical Decision Making and has received FIRST and RCDA Awards from the National Library of Medicine. He has now been elected to membership in the American College of Medical Informatics.