Dr. Daniel R. Masys is Professor and Chair of the Department of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. An honors graduate of Princeton University and the Ohio State University College of Medicine, he completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of California, San Diego, and the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego.

After serving as a Navy medical officer for 11 years, Dr. Masys transferred to the US Public Health service as a commissioned officer at the National Institutes of Health. There he served as chief of the International Cancer Research Data Bank of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and from 1986 through 1994 was director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, which is the computer research and development division of the National Library of Medicine. In this capacity, he served as the chief program architect and first director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) that was established within the National Library of Medicine in 1987 to support molecular databases and computational tools. NCBI is home to GenBank, the national DNA sequence database, and a growing variety of bioinformatics resources.

Dr. Masys is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He was a founding associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and has received numerous awards including the NIH Director's Award and the US Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal.

 

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