Shortliffe receives major bioinformatics award

Ted Shortliffe, founding dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, and a faculty member of Arizona State University's department of biomedical informatics, has received the highest honor for lifetime achievement in biomedical informatics.

The 2006 Morris F. Collen Award was originally presented to Shortliffe by the American College of Medical Informatics in November. The award was later reported in a special feature in the May-June 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Shortliffe recently left Columbia University to serve in a dual capacity for both UA and ASU.

"We are very fortunate to have Ted cross-appointed as a professor of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University, especially given his formidable experience in developing renowned graduate programs at both Stanford and Columbia University," said Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of the School of Computing and Informatics.

"I have no doubt that ASU will soon become known for having a world-class department of biomedical informatics."

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ASU news release, 06/27/2007