Perry Miller, PhD, MD

I am the founder and previous Director of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics (YCMI) and of the School of Medicine’s research training program in Biomedical Informatics, which is supported by the National Library of Medicine. Biomedical Informatics, a field at the intersection of biomedicine and the computing and information sciences, focuses on the creative use of computers in clinical medicine, biomedical research, and medical education. Research at the YCMI includes major projects in clinical, neuro-, and genome informatics. Current projects include 1) working with Prof. Gordon Shepherd (Neuroscience) on several neuroinformatics project, including the Yale SenseLab project and the national Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) initiative; 2) working with several groups to develop University-wide informatics support for genomic and proteomic research; 3) developing databases and tools used by the laboratory of Prof. Kenneth Kidd (Genetics); and 4) a growing number of clinical and genomic research projects based at the West Haven VA Medical Center. Additional information is available at our web site.