Randolph A. Miller, M.D., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Associate Director of the Informatics Center, and Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Dr. Miller completed clinical training at the University of Pittsburgh in 1979 in Internal Medicine, and as a faculty member there developed Quick Medical Reference (QMR) as a microcomputer-based successor to the INTERNIST-I diagnosis program. His 1994 move to Vanderbilt has afforded him the opportunity to develop a combined academic unit and clinical informatics service that develops and evaluates biomedical software applications.

Dr. Miller has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) since its foundation in 1993, and joined the Editorial Board of the Annals of Internal Medicine in July, 2000. He was elected President of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) for 1994-95. He has served on the National Library of Medicine Biomedical Library Review Study Section (two terms) and the AHCPR Health Care Technology Study Section. He has been Principal Investigator on a number of NLM/NIH-sponsored R01 research and training grants, helped to lead IAIMS activities at two institutions, and directed the University of Pittsburgh's participation in the NLM's UMLS Project.

His research interests include development and evaluation of medical decision support systems and their corresponding knowledge bases; clinical terminology systems; ethical and legal implications of developing and using clinical information systems; and, institutional-level informatics initiatives.

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