Edward H. “Ted” Shortliffe, MD, PhD; Columbia University; creator of MYCIN

Bio:- Dr. Shortliffe is Chair Emeritus and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also holds an adjunct appointment at Weill Cornell Medical College. Previously, he served as President/CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and was founding Dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix. Both a PhD computer scientist and a physician who has practiced internal medicine, Dr. Shortliffe is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He received the Association of Computing Machinery’s Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1976 and the American College of Medical Informatics’ Morris F. Collen Award in 2006.