Mark Alan Musen is a Professor of

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and of Biomedical

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at Stanford University; at Stanford, he directs the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. Musen's research focuses on open science,

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ship,

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, and biomedical

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. Musen has led the development of

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since the late 1980s; today, Protégé is the most "widely used domain-independent, freely available,

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technology for developing and managing terminologies,

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, and

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s" in a range of

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s. Musen is the founding co-editor in chief of the journal ''Applied Ontology.''

Education

Musen received a Bachelor of Science in biology from Brown University in 1977. He attended Brown's

Alpert Medical School The Warren Alpert Medical School (formerly known as Brown Medical School, previously known as Brown University School of Medicine) is the medical school of Brown University, located in Providence, Rhode Island. Originally established in 1811, i ...

, graduating in 1980 with an M.D. Musen completed his

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in internal medicine at

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in 1983. After residency, he completed a doctoral degree in Medical Information Sciences at Stanford in 1988.

Career

Between 1988 and 1995, Musen was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at

Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This ...

. He was appointed Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research in 1993 and promoted to Professor of Medicine in 2002.

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