Scholdager Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, June 2005 National Associate, National Academies, Washington, DC, December 2004. Mastership, American College of Physicians, November 2002 Young Investigator Award, Western Society for Clinical Investigation, February 1987. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholar in General Internal Medicine, July 1983—June 1988. Research Career Development Award, National Library of Medicine, July 1979—June 1984. Grace Murray Hopper Award (Distinguished computer scientist under age 30), Association for Computing Machinery, October 1976. Books and Representative Papers Shortliffe, E.H. Computer-Based Medical Consultations: MYCIN, Elsevier/North Holland, New York, 1976. (Japanese-language version by Bunkodo Blue Books, Tokyo, 1981, translated by T. Kaminuma) Buchanan, B.G. and Shortliffe, E.H. (eds). Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1984. See http://aaai.org/AITopics/RuleBasedExpertSystems. Clancey, W.J. and Shortliffe, E.H. (eds). Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence: The First Decade. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1984. See http://aaai.org/AITopics/ReadingsInMedicalArtificialIntelligence. Shortliffe, E.H., Wulfman, C.E., Rindfleisch, T.C., and Carlson, R.W. An Integrated Oncology Workstation. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, 1991. [Received the 1991-92 Award of Excellence from The Society for Technical Communication.] Shortliffe, E.H. (ed) and Cimino, J.J. (assoc. ed.). Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2006. (3rd edition; 2nd edition in 2000; 1st edition in 1990 (Addison Wesley)). Boxwala AA, Peleg M, Tu S, Ogunyemi O, Zeng QT, Wang D, Patel VL, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. `GLIF3: a representation format for sharable computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines.' Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2004;37(3):147-161. Shortliffe, E.H. and Buchanan, B.G. A model of inexact reasoning in medicine. Math. Biosci. 1975;23:351-379. Duda, R.O. and Shortliffe, E.H. Expert systems research. Science, 1983;220:261-268. Greenes, R.A. and Shortliffe, E.H. Medical informatics: an emerging academic discipline and institutional priority. JAMA 1990;263:1114-1120. See http://jama.jamanetwork.com/pdfaccess.ashx?ResourceID=517040&PDFSource=13 Detmer, W.M. and Shortliffe, E.H. Using the Internet to improve knowledge diffusion in medicine. Commun ACM, 1997;40(8):101-108. Shortliffe EH. Strategic Action in Health Information Technology: Why the Obvious Has Taken So Long. Health Affairs 2005;24:1222-1233. Shortliffe EH. Biomedical informatics in the education of physicians. J Am Med Assoc 2010:304(11):1227-1228. References External links Video of Morris Collen award ceremony Tree of Shortliffe's students 1947 births Living people Scientists from Edmonton Writers from Edmonton University of Texas faculty Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni American bioinformaticians Health informaticians Stanford University School of Medicine alumni University of Arizona faculty Arizona State University faculty American technology writers Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial