Yves A Lussier

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Name Yves Lussier

Institutions University of ArizonaUniversity of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences SystemThe University of ChicagoColumbia UniversityCentre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Sherbrooke (CHUS) Alma mater Columbia UniversityUniversite de SherbrookeUniversite Laval Academic advisors James J. Cimino, Carol Friedman, Roger Cote Doctoral students Ying Tao, MD, PhD; IBM Research Other notable students Michal Cantor,MD,MSc; NYU, PfizerJames L. Chen, MD Ohio State College of MedicineYounghee Lee, PhD U of Chicago Known for -co-founder of Development Purkinje (Purkinje Incorporated)-co-Founder and 2009 ChairAMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics-VigiLens Health Monitor Education Universite de Sherbrooke, Columbia University, Laval University Fields Personalized medicine, Cancer, Health informatics, Natural language processing

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Yves A. Lussier, M.D., Professional Engineer, is a physician-scientist conducting research in Precision medicine, Translational bioinformatics and Personal Genomics. As a co-founder of Purkinje, he pioneered the commercial use of controlled medical vocabulary organized as directed semantic networks in electronic medical records (1st clinical ontology available commercially), as well as Pen computing for clinicians. He was invited to the White House Precision Medicine Initiative summit.

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Biography and career

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Dr. Lussier works in both clinical medicine and biomedical informatics. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona, Associate Vice President (Chief knowledge officer) at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, Associate Director of BIO5, and Associate Director for Informatics and Precision medicine of the UA Cancer Center.

From 2001-6, he served as Dir. of Technology transfer and Assist Prof. at Columbia University Depts. of Medicine and of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2) and Columbia Joint Center for Systems Biology.

From 2006-2011, he was Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Chicago, he directed of Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBI), was Associate Director for Informatics of the Cancer Center, and joint Director for Informatics of the Institute for Translational Medicine (CTSA).

From 2011-13, he was Professor of Medicine, Bioengineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences at The University of Illinois at Chicago, Assistant Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Science System, Associate DIrector for Informatics of the Illinois Cancer Center, and Faculty Director of the Center for Research Informatics (core facility).

2006–present: Fellow of the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology and of the Computation Institute.

He was appointed as the General Chair of the 2009 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Summit on Translational Bioinformatics and has made significant contribution to the emerging field of translational bioinformatics and personalized medicine.

He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and on the Journal of Personalized Medicine.

He cumulates over 145 publications (15 award-winning ones in the last 5 years); 16 Commencement and conference keynote lectureships; and 300 abstract communications and invited lectures.

He mentored more than 40 graduate and postgraduate students and 20 junior Faculty members.

Dr. Lussier is an elected Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) since 2005.