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Peter L. Elkin

PROFESSOR  Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Overview

Gender Male
E-mail milana.abramov@mssm.edu
  peter.elkin@mssm.edu
Education and Training B.S., Union College
  M.D., New York Medical College
  National Library of Medicine Fellow , Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
  Research Fellowship , Rhode Island Hospital
Awards Homer Warner Award for Outstanding Contribution to the field of Medical Informatics
Paper:
Fall American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Conference
  2007
Golden Raison Award
Royal Danish Society of Medical Informatics
  2006
Fellow
American College of Medical Informatics
  2005
Laureate
Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic
  2001
Mayo Office for the Advancement of Research Award
  1998
Fellow
American College of Physicians

Training

Education and Training B.S., Union College
  M.D., New York Medical College
  National Library of Medicine Fellow , Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
  Research Fellowship , Rhode Island Hospital

Research

Dr. Elkin's research interests include:
Biomedical Informatics
Natural Language Processing
Intelligent Electronic Health Records
Drug Discovery
Data Mining
Biosurveillance
Automated Clinical Trials
Knowledge Representation and Ontologies

Publications

Elkin PL, E. Health Informatics . Controlled health vocabularies-Vocabulary structure and high-level indicators. In: ISO TC 215 Technical Specification (TS17117v01).


Elkin PL, Cimino JJ, Lowe HJ, Aronow DB, Payne TH, Pincetl PS, Barnett GO. Mapping to MeSH. IEEE Proceedings of the 12th Annual Symposium on Computers and Medical Care 1988;: 185-190.


Elkin PL, McLatchey J, Packer M, Hoffer E, Cimino C, Studney D, Barnett GO. Automated Batch Searching of MEDLINE for DXplain. IEEE proceedings 13th Annual Symposium on Computers and Medical Care 1989;: 436-440.


Cimino JJ, Elkin PL, Barnett GO. As We May Think: The Concept Space and Medical Hypertext. Computers and Biomedical Research 1992 June; 25: 238-263.


Elkin PL, Brown SH, Husser C, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler D, Rosenbloom ST, Speroff T. An Evaluation of the Content Coverage of SNOMED-CT for Clinical Problem Lists . Mayo Clin Proc 2006 Jun; 81(6): 741-748.


Elkin PL, E. Standard Problem List Generation, Utilizing the Mayo Canonical Vocabulary Embedded within the Unified Medical Language System. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) Suppl 1997;: 500-504.


Elkin PL, E. The Role of Compositionality in Standardized Problem List Generation. In: Medinfo Proceedings.


Brown SH, Speroff T, Fielstein EM, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler DL, Greevy R, Elkin PL. eQuality: Automatic Assessment from Narrative Clinical Reports. Mayo Clinic Proceedings; In Press.


Elkin PL, Bailey K, Chute CG. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Automated Term Composition. JAMIA Supplement 1998; Supplement 11.


Ammenwerth E, Talmon J, Ash JS, Bates DW, Beuscart-Zephir MC, Duhamel A, Elkin PL, Gardner RM, Geissbuhler A. Impact of CPOE on Mortality Rates - Contradictory Findings, Important Messages. Methods Inf Med 2006; 45(6): 586-593.


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