Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Shahís research on high-throughput text mining of unstructured EHR data has garnered enormous national attention. At Stanford, he took charge of the bioinformatics core of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO). He proposed, designed, and executed a series of remarkable experiments concerning automated processing of public datasets to link those datasets to controlled terms in a large repository of biomedical ontologies. The result of his work is an extremely popular Web service, called the ìNCBO Annotator,î that enables high-throughput tagging of unstructured data with individual ontology terms. Dr. Shah subsequently demonstrated that the methods developed for the NCBO Annotator could be used to monitor for adverse drug events, to learn new drugñdrug interactions, and to identify off-label drug usage directly from EHR textual notes.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2015