Professional activities

Conference leadership

• • Program Chair, 2008 AMIA Annual Symposium, American Medical Informatics Association (Washington DC)

  • Vice Chair (Foundations), 2007 AMIA Annual Symposium (Chicago, IL)

  • Program Committee, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 1996-2001, 2003-2006

Editorial activities

• • Editorial Board, JAMIA, 2010-2020

  • Editor, 1996 Yearbook of Medical Informatics, section on Decision Support Systems

  • Reviewer for multiple professional journals and conferences, including Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, HP TechCon, IEEE Expert, IJCAI, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, AMIA Fall Symposium; IMIA Yearbook of Informatics

Committee work, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

• • Chair, Clinical Informatics Taskforce, 2011-2014

  • Member, Audit Committee, 2010-2014

  • Chair, AMIA Representation Taskforce, 2010

  • Chair, Working Group Steering Committee, 2004-2008 (oversight over 20 working groups for 3,000+ members)

  • Chair, Membership Committee, 1999-2003

  • Member, Global Trial Bank Steering Committee, 2005-2006; Working Group Steering Committee, 2000-2008; Membership Committee, 1994-2008; Scientific Program Committee, AMIA Fall Symposium, 2008, 2007, 2003, 2002, 2001; Co-sponsorships and Endorsements Committee, 2001-2004; Symposium Taskforce, 2002; Publications Committee, 1994-1999

  • Member of working groups including Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Prevention and Public Health, and Clinical Information Systems

Honors

• • Elected Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (2009)

  • Martin Epstein Award for best student paper in Medical Informatics, Sixteenth Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, American Medical Informatics Association

  • Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University

Other activities

• • Served on Board of Directors of a baseball league for six years; initiated and managed formal training program for coaches and players; coached baseball for five years. Long-term (shared) San Francisco Giants season ticket holder until a few years ago.

  • Winemaker of private reserve zinfandel in California. Vigneron d'Honneur de la Jurade et bourgeois de Saint-Émilion (honorary member of the Jurade of Saint-Émilion, France).