James Cimino

Research and Teaching Interests: Medical concept representation, controlled vocabulary, biomedical informatics, medical decision making

In 2015 Dr. Cimino left the National Institutes of Health to be the inaugural director of the Informatics Institute at the UAB.

The Institute is charged with improving informatics research, education, and service across the University. It supports the Personalized Medicine Institute, the Center for Genomic Medicine, and the University Health System Foundation, including improvement of and access to electronic health records.

Dr. Cimino particular interests are in clinical informatics. You can read more about him on his UAB School of Medicine faculty profile.