Biomedical informatics professor honored by national group
<p>Doug Fridsma, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, has been elected to the Fellowship of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).<br /> <br /> Fridsma’s research involves the development of tools to study patient safety, clinical work processes, and collaboration between healthcare providers, with a focus on simulation, clinical trials and oncology care.<br /> <br /> Selection to ACMI Fellowship is an honor reserved for individuals with typically more than a decade of significant and sustained contributions to medical informatics.<br /> <br /> Fridsma is one of the primary developers of the Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group Project, a division of the Biomedical Informatics Grid Program, the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium and Health Level 7 that is working to develop a comprehensive and formal representation of the shared semantics of clinical trials research.<br /> <br /> Fridsma previously was an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s biomedical informatics department.</p>