Mark Musen, MD, PhD

Mark is the Stanford Medicine Professor of Biomedical Informatics Research and Professor of Medicine and of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. He is Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. He conducts research related to open science, intelligent systems, and biomedical decision support. His long-standing work on a system known as Protégé has led to an open-source technology used by thousands of developers to build intelligent computer systems, new computer applications for e-science, and biomedical terminologies. Protégé has been instrumental in the development of the NCI Thesaurus, ICD-11, the Foundational Model of Anatomy, and many other controlled vocabularies and ontologies. His group developed the BioPortal resource, which serves as an open repository for nearly all publicly available biomedical ontologies, and the CEDAR resource, which provides widely used technology for ensuring that scientific datasets are annotated with standards-adherent metadata. Mark is an elected member of ACMI, IAHSI, ASCI, AAP, and NAM. He holds honorary doctoral degrees from the University of A Coruña (Spain) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He was elected to two terms on the AMIA Board of Directors (1996–2002). He served as Scientific Program Chair of the AMIA Spring Congress in 1992 and of the AMIA Fall Symposium in 2003. He was the founding Chair of the AMIA Academic Forum and he has participated in numerous committees for AMIA.