Dr. Peter Elkin

Dr. Elkin serves as the University at Buffalo (UB) Distinguished Professor and Chair of the UB and Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ Department of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Elkin has published over 300 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, AI, natural language processing and health IT standards. Dr. Elkin in 2018 received the Team Science Award from the NCATS and was elected an inaugural fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association for Clinical Informatics excellence and has been elected to the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. He serves on the Board of Directors of the ACTS, and is the President Elect of the Friends of the NLM. He publishes the Springer series Textbook on Ontology, Terminology and Terminological Systems. Dr. Elkin is Editor in Chief of the iEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI).