Yves A. Lussier is a physician-scientist conducting research in

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, Translational bioinformatics and

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. As a co-founder of Purkinje, he pioneered the commercial use of controlled medical vocabulary organized as directed semantic networks in electronic medical records, as well as

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for clinicians.

Career

Lussier works in both clinical medicine and biomedical informatics. He is a Professor and Chair at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the

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. Lussier served as Director of Technology transfer and Assist Prof. at

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Depts. of Medicine and of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2) and Columbia Joint Center for Systems Biology from 2001-6. He was the Faculty Speaker at the PhD convocation of Columbia University in 2004. Lussier is a recipient of three IBM Faculty Awards. He was Associate Professor of Medicine at

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, he directed of Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBI), was Associate Director for Informatics of the

Cancer Center Cancer is a group of diseases involving Cell growth#Disorders, abnormal cell growth with the potential to Invasion (cancer), invade or Metastasis, spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Po ...

, and joint Director for Informatics of University of Chicago Cancer Center from 2006-2011. 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) from 2011-13. He was also a Professor of Medicine at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it ...

, Associate Vice President (

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) at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, Associate Director of BIO5, and Associate Director for Informatics and

of the UA Cancer Center. From 2006-2013, Lussier served as Fellow of the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology and of the Computation Institute. He was appointed as the General Chair of the 2009 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Summit on Translational Bioinformatics and has made a significant contribution to the emerging field of translational bioinformatics and personalized medicine. He serves on the editorial board of the

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, and on the Journal of Personalized Medicine. He cumulated over 130 publications as well as multiple commencement, conference keynote lectureships and 300 abstract communications and invited lectures. Lussier is an elected Fellow of

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(ACMI) since 2005, and was awarded the title of Ambassador for Health Science of the

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in 2017

Awards and honours

* Inducted Fellow,

(2005) *

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Faculty Awards 2003, 2004 1st recipient,

Faculty Mentoring Award * Outstanding Paper Awards, 2008(2), 2009, 2010, 2011 Summit for Translational Bioinformatics AMIA * Distinguished paper award 2011 AMIA * Best papers awards, Translational Bioinformatics Conference 2012 and 2013 * Ambassador for Health Science of the

in 2017.

References

Other sources

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External links

Lussier’s Software

Lussier's Homepage

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