During the early-1970s, for my doctoral dissertation, I was principal developer
of the medical expert system known as MYCIN.
After a pause for internal medicine house-staff training at Harvard and
Stanford between 1976 and 1979, I joined the Stanford internal medicine
faculty where I have directed a research program in medical informatics.
My interests include the broad range of issues related to integrated decision-support
systems and their effective implementation. In the early 1980s, I worked
to create the Stanford degree
program in medical informatics. I continue to divide my time between
clinical medicine and medical informatics research/administration. Since
October 1995, I have been Associate Dean for Information Resources and
Technology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
My publications are summarized on the SMI site (see link below). Other
details are available in my Curriculum
Vitae. Volumes include Computer-Based Medical Consultations: MYCIN
(Elsevier/North Holland, 1976), Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence:
the First Decade (with W.J. Clancey; Addison-Wesley, 1984), Rule-Based
Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming
Project (with B.G. Buchanan; Addison-Wesley, 1984), and Medical
Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (with
L.E. Perreault, G. Wiederhold, and L.M. Fagan; Addison-Wesley, 1990; second
edition, Springer Verlag, 2000).