Mark Alan Musen is a Professor of

Biomedical Informatics Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic hea ...

and of Biomedical

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; 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

decision support A decision support system (DSS) is an Information systems, information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations and planning levels of an organization (usually mid and hig ...

. Musen has led the development of Protégé 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

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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, ...

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

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in internal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center 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. 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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Musen, Mark Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Brown University alumni Alpert Medical School alumni Stanford University alumni Stanford University School of Medicine faculty