James J. Cimino, MD, FACMI, FACP, FNYAM, FAMIA, FIAHSI

Dr. James Cimino became the inaugural director of the Informatics Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2015 and then inaugural chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science in 2024. Prior to UAB, he was on faculty in Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Columbia University for 20 years, followed by 7 years as Director of the Laboratory for Informatics Development at the NIH Clinical Center and the National Library of Medicine. He is Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and winner of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Morris F. Collen Award for Excellence. He was appointed Adjoint Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on November 1, 2023. 

Research interests: Medical concept representation, controlled vocabulary, biomedical informatics, medical decision making
UAB Email: jamescimino@uabmc.edu