Michael Lincoln, MD

Dr. Lincoln received his Bachelors and MD degrees from the University of Michigan, followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at Utah, and fellowships in Pulmonary Medicine and Medical Informatics. He joined the faculty at Utah and is now Associate Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, as well as an attending physician at the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and Chief Terminologist for the VA Health Affairs Office of Information in Salt Lake and Washington, DC. He is also Program Director of the VA Special Fellowship in Medical Informatics. Dr. Lincoln has accumulated a substantial record of achievements in decision support, expert systems, and health care education. Under Dr. Homer R. Warner, he led an effort to formally implement and evaluate The Iliad system in the medical curriculum, and demonstrated that Iliad case simulation software significantly improved student case solving performance. He explained these results in terms of cognitive psychology theories. He subsequently applied his cognitive psychology experience to the VA's Computerized Patient Record System development project to improve system usability, and in this context found that an expert system for practice guidelines resulted in improved physician compliance with guideline content. Dr. Lincoln helped create the FDA's Structured Product Label initiative, then demonstrated the use of structured label information to automatically update VA's drug terminology content. He is a codeveloper of the Document Naming Nomenclature that has become the basis for the LOINC document standard, which in turn has contributed significantly to the Health Level 7 (HL7) Clinical Document Architecture. Dr. Lincoln is the VA liaison to the SNOMED Editorial Board and has led adoption of SNOMED-CT in the VA's electronic health record. He is also the VA lead for the Federal Medical Terminologies Consortium, which is a Federal collection of medication terminologies that are provided to the public via the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. His election to the College recognizes these innovations and sustained contributions to the field.