Peter L Elkin MD MD, MACP, FACMI, FNYAM, FAMIA, FIAHSI

Summary

• Dr. Elkin was elected to the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. The academy contains the top less than 200 Informaticians international and about 50 people from the US and Canada. The mission of the academy is to improve the world using informatics practice, education and research methods. Dr. Elkin serves as Professor and Chair of the UB Department of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Elkin has published over 190 peer reviewed publications and book chapters. He received his Bachelors of Science from Union College and his M.D. from New York Medical College. He did his NIH/NLM sponsored fellowship in Medical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Elkin has been working in Biomedical Informatics since 1981 and has been actively researching health big data science since 1987. Dr. Elkin is a Master of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He was awarded the Mayo Department of Medicine’s Laureate Award for 2005. Dr. Elkin is the index recipient of the Homer R. Warner award for outstanding contribution to the field of Medical Informatics. Dr. Elkin is an internationally renowned expert in knowledge representation, ontology, natural language processing and health IT standards. Dr. Elkin in 2018 received the Team Science Award from the National Center for Advancement of Translational Sciences and was elected an inaugural fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association for Clinical Informatics excellence. He serves on the NCATS Informatics Quality Metrics Committee.