James J. Cimino

James J. Cimino
James J. Cimino
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University; New York Medical College; Harvard University
Known for	Controlled Medical Vocabulary; (Medical Entity Dictionary,; Research Entity Dictionary,; UMLS);
Awards	Medal of Honor, NYMC; President’s Award, AMIA; NIH Clinical Center Director's Award for BTRIS
	Scientific career
Fields	Medical concept representation; Controlled vocabulary; Biomedical Informatics; Medical decision making
Institutions	United States National Library of Medicine; Columbia University
Academic advisors	G. Octo Barnett
Doctoral students	Eneida A. Mendonça
Other notable students	Yves A. Lussier

James J. Cimino, is a physician-scientist and biomedical informatician elected in 1992 to the American College of Medical Informatics and in 2014 to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science.^[4] He pioneered the theory and formalisms of medical concept representation underpinning the use of controlled medical vocabularies in electronic medical records in support of clinical decision-making. Training under Octo Barnett at Harvard University, he also contributed to the initiation of the Unified Medical Language System. In addition, he actively practices medicine as an internist and has devoted many years to develop and innovate clinical information systems that have been integrated in the New York–Presbyterian Hospital, and the Columbia University Medical Center.

Cimino is the inaugural director of the Informatics Institute in the School of Medicine and co-director of the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science.^[5] Previously, Cimino was Chief of the Laboratory for Informatics Development at the NIH Clinical Center, and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University (2002-2007).

Cimino has published over 200 articles (H-index>62).^[6]