Jim Cimino, MD

Internal Medicine

Highlights

Age Groups Seen

Adults

Languages

English

About Jim Cimino

Biography

Dr. Cimino is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Informatics Institute at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine. His first informatics paper was presented at the 1981 SCAMC, and he completed a three-year research fellowship in medical informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard. After 20 years as a professor of medicine and biomedical informatics at Columbia University, he moved to the NIH in 2008 and then to UAB in 2015. Research interests include medical concept representation, clinical decision support and electronic health records. He is known for biomedical terminology “desiderata”, infobuttons, and the NIH’s Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS). Fellowships include the American College of Medical Informatics, the American College of Physicians and the New York Academy of Medicine, and he is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. AMIA awards include the President's Award and the Morris Collen Award. He continues medical practice.

Research Interests

Clinical Informatics, particularly improvement in electronic health records and clinical decision support

Awards & Recognition

1992 - Elected to Fellowship in the American College of Medical Informatics
1995 - Priscilla M. Mayden Award for Excellence in Medical Informatics, University of Utah
1996 - National Information Infrastructure Awards, Semi-Finalist in Health Category
1998 - Elected to Fellowship, American College of Physicians
2002 - President's Award, American Medical Informatics Association
2006 - Elected to Membership in the American Clinical and Climatological Association
2006 - Medal of Honor, New York Medical College
2006 - Elected to Fellowship, New York Academy of Medicine
2009 - NIH Clinical Center Director’s Award
2012 - Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association
2013 - NIH Clinical Center Director’s Award
2014 - Elected as a Member of the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine)
2017 - Founding Member, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics
2018 - Fellow, American Medical Informatics Association (inaugural class)
2019 - Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence, American Medical Informatics Association

Memberships

National Academy of Medicine
American Medical Informatics Association
American College of Medical Informatics
International acadewmy of Health Sciences Informatics