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Randolph A. Miller, M.D., is the Donald A.B. and Mary M. Lindberg
University Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine & Nursing.
Dr. Miller is well known for his expertise on medical
diagnostic systems and knowledge bases. He joined the INTERNIST-I
diagnosis project at its inception in 1973. In 1985, he began work on
Quick Medical Reference (QMR) as a microcomputer based successor to
INTERNIST-I. Dr. Miller received the Priscilla Mayden Award in Medical
Informatics from the University of Utah for his work on QMR. He
continues his interest in all forms of medical decision support
systems. He received New Investigator (1981-84) and Research Career
Development (1985-90) Awards from the National Library of Medicine
(NLM), and was Principal Investigator (PI) for the University of
Pittsburgh's UMLS Project (1986-94) and Director of its NLM-sponsored
Training Program in Medical Informatics (1987-94), prior to moving to
Vanderbilt. He chaired the University of Pittsburgh's IAIMS Executive
Committee (1991-94), was Project Director for the Pittsburgh Phase II
IAIMS Project, and is an active participant in Vanderbilt's IAIMS
activities.
The move to Vanderbilt has afforded the opportunity to
participate directly in the construction and implementation of the
state-of-the-art hospital information system, including creating of
linkages that will provide advanced decision support capabilities on
the wards through physician order entry. Dr. Miller was PI on a NLM
R01 project (1987-90; continuation 1991-94) examining medical knowledge
base construction (project manager, Dr. N. Giuse). Dr. Miller has
served on the Editorial Board of Methods of Information in Medicine,
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and is an Associate Editor of the
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. He served on
the NLM's Biomedical Library Review Study Section (1984-88), and is a
member of the Health Care Technology Study Section of the AHCPR
(1991-95). He served on the SCAMC Board of Directors (1988-90), and
the American Medical Informatics Association Board of Directors
(1991-93), before becoming the President-Elect (1993) and President
(1994-95) of AMIA. Dr. Miller continues his interest in medical
informatics education at the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels, and
there are several active postdoctoral trainees in the Division of
Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt.
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