Yves A. Lussier

Yves A. Lussier
Born	Montreal, Canada
Fields	Precision medicine, Translational bioinformatics, Personal Genomics, Personalized medicine, Cancer and Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Ontologies, Medical Language Processing
Institutions	University of Arizona University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System The University of Chicago Columbia University Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Sherbrooke (CHUS)
Alma mater	Columbia University Université de Sherbrooke Université Laval
Academic advisors	James J. Cimino, Carol Friedman, Roger Côté
Doctoral students	Ying Tao, MD, PhD; IBM Research[1]
Other notable students	Michal Cantor,MD,MSc; NYU, Pfizer[2] James L. Chen, MD Ohio State College of Medicine[3] Younghee Lee, PhD[4] U of Utah
Known for	-co-founder of Development Purkinje (Purkinje Incorporated)[5] -co-Founder and 2009 Chair AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics[6] -VigiLens Health Monitor[7]
Influenced	Clinical Pen computing Translational Bioinformatics Precision medicine
Notable awards	-Inducted Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (2005)[8] -IBM Faculty Awards[9] 2003,2004[10] -1st recipient,[11] Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award[12] -Outstanding Paper Awards, 2008(2),2009,2010, 2011 Summit for Translational Bioinformatics AMIA - Distinguished paper award 2011 AMIA[13] - Best papers awards, Translational Bioinformatics Conference 2012[14] and 2013 - “Highlights of the Year” paper recognition, ISCB at their Annual Meeting ISMB 2006, 2010, 2012, 2016 -1994 Innovation "Octas"[15]
Notes
websites University-of-Arizona, lussierlab.org

Yves A. Lussier, M.D., Professional Engineer, is a physician-scientist conducting research in Precision medicine, Translational bioinformatics and Personal Genomics. As a co-founder of Purkinje, he pioneered the commercial use of controlled medical vocabulary organized as directed semantic networks in electronic medical records (1st clinical ontology available commercially), as well as Pen computing for clinicians.^[16] He was invited to the White House Precision Medicine Initiative summit.^[17]

Biography and career

Dr. Lussier works in both clinical medicine and biomedical informatics. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona, Associate Vice President (Chief knowledge officer) at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, Associate Director of BIO5,^[18] and Associate Director for Informatics and Precision medicine of the UA Cancer Center.^[19]

• From 2001-6, he served as Dir. of Technology transfer and Assist Prof. at Columbia University Depts. of Medicine and of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2) and Columbia Joint Center for Systems Biology.
• From 2006-2011, he was Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Chicago, he directed of Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBI), was Associate Director for Informatics of the Cancer Center, and joint Director for Informatics of the Institute for Translational Medicine^[20] (CTSA).
• From 2011-13, he was Professor of Medicine, Bioengineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences at The University of Illinois at Chicago, Assistant Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Science System, Associate DIrector for Informatics of the Illinois Cancer Center, and Faculty Director of the Center for Research Informatics (core facility).
• 2006–present: Fellow of the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology^[21] and of the Computation Institute.^[22]
• He was appointed as the General Chair of the 2009 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Summit on Translational Bioinformatics and has made significant contribution to the emerging field of translational bioinformatics and personalized medicine.
• He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and on the Journal of Personalized Medicine.
• He cumulates over 145 publications (15 award winning ones in the last 5 years); 16 Commencement and conference keynote lectureships; and 300 abstract communications and invited lectures.
• He mentored more than 40 graduate and postgraduate students and 20 junior Faculty members.
• Dr. Lussier is an elected Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) since 2005.

Journal Articles

• Google Scholar citations
• Medline (PubMed) Publications
• Computer science publications
• CiteSeer publications

References

• Liu, Yang; Li, Jianrong; Sam, Lee; Goh, Chern-Sing; Gerstein, Mark; Lussier, Yves A. (2006). "An Integrative Genomic Approach to Uncover Molecular Mechanisms of Prokaryotic Traits". PLoS Computational Biology. 2 (11): e159. Bibcode:2006PLSCB...2..159L. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020159. PMC 1636675. PMID 17112314. 
• http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/7/257
• http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/S3/S7
• Masys, D. R. (2006). "American College of Medical Informatics Fellows and International Associates, 2005". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 13 (3): 360–364. doi:10.1197/jamia.M2057. PMC 1513661. 

External links

• Dr. Lussier’s Software
• Dr. Lussier's Homepage
• Article describing Dr. Lussier's 3rd IBM Faculty Award