Curriculum Vitae
Peter L. Elkin, MD
Mayo Clinic
200 First Street, SW
Rochester, Minnesota 55905
Telephone: (507) 284-1551
Fax: (507) 284-5370
E-Mail:
Current Academic Appointment:
Professor of Medicine
Personal Information:
Date of Birth: December 23, 1956
Place of Birth: Trenton, New Jersey
Education:
1978 B.S. Union College - Applied Mathematics
1978 Completed Course Work for M.S. in Statistics while satisfying
Undergraduate Curriculum Requirements
1985 M.D. New York Medical College
1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Computer Science
Postdoctoral Training:
Internship and Residencies:
1985 - 1986 Internship, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
1988 - 1990 Clinical Fellow, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts
1990 - 1992 Resident in Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary,
Boston, Massachusetts
1994 - 1996 Resident in Internal Medicine, Lahey Clinic Medical Center,
Burlington, Massachusetts
Research Fellowships:
1986 - 1987 Research Fellow, and Coordinator of Computer Research, Department of
Orthopaedics, Rhode Island Hospital
1987 - 1990 Research Fellow, National Library of Medicine Fellow in Medical Informatics,
Laboratory of Computer Science at the Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health
Board Certification:
1996, 2006 American Board of Internal Medicine #171869
Licensure:
1986 Rhode Island State License to Practice Medicine
1987 Massachusetts State License to Practice Medicine
1996 Minnesota State License to Practice Medicine
Awards/Honors:
1971 Russell E. Elliot Memorial Scholar
1977 - 1978 Putnam Contestant (Math Olympian)
1983 Grant Award, Worthington Biochemical
1986 Grant from IBM
1998 Fellowship, American College of Physicians
1998 Homer Warner Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Medical Informatics (For the paper entitled “A Randomized Controlled Trial of Automated Term Composition”, presented at the Fall AMIA Conference).
2001 Mayo Office for the Advancement of Research Award
2005 Mayo Department of Medicine Laureate Award
2006 Fellowship, American College of Medical Informatics
2007 Golden Raison Award, Danish Society of Medical Informatics
Hospital Appointments:
1987 - 1995 Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine
1993 - 1996 Carney Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine
1992 - 1996 New England Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine
1992 - 1993 Faulkner Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine
1996 - Present Mayo Clinic Medical Center
1996 - Present Saint Mary’s Hospital
Professional Memberships and Societies:
1990 - American Medical Informatics Association
1994 - American College of Physicians, Fellow
1992 - Massachusetts Medical Society
1996 - American Medical Association
1996 - Zumbro Valley Medical Society
1996 - Minnesota Medical Association
1996 - Society of General Internal Medicine
Principal Clinical and Hospital Service Responsibilities:
1986 - 1987 Emergency Physician, East Providence Emergency Room
1987 Emergency Physician, Woonsocket Hospital
1990 - 1992 Resident, Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
1992 - 1993 Physician, EMSA Correctional Care
1992 - 1995 Tufts University School of Medicine, Senior Instructor in Medicine
1987 - 1995 Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant in Medicine
1996 - 1999 Mayo Clinic, Senior Associate Consultant
1998 Assistant Professor of Medicine
1999 - Present Mayo Clinic, Consultant
1996 - Present Saint Mary’s Hospital, Hospital Service Responsibility
2001 Associate Professor of Medicine
2004 Professor of Medicine
Educational Activities:
A. Editorial Boards:
1986 - Present Software Reviewer, New England Journal of Medicine
1986 - Present Software Reviewer, JAMA
1988 - 1990 DXplain Editorial Board
1997 Reviewer of Papers for the Fall American Medical Informatics Association Conference
1997 Reviewer of Papers for the International Medical Informatics Association’s (MedInfo) Conference
1998 &2000 Program Committee: Fall AMIA Conference
2002 Dermatology Lexicon Project, NIAMS, NIH
B. Mayo Medical School
1996 - Medical Student Education, Saint Mary’s Hospital Rotations
1996- Medical Fellowship Education, Inpatient, Outpatient and Conference
1996- Assistant Professor of Medicine
1999- Associate Professor of Medical Informatics
2001 - Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Informatics
2004 Professor of Medicine
C. Teaching Experience:
1978 Lectured and organized seminars on Statistics for Researchers in the Department
of Chemistry, Union College
1980 Lectures on Systems Design, Eastman Kodak Company
1988 Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Medical
Walk-In Unit
1989 - 1990 Preceptor, Introduction to Clinical Medicine Course, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Harvard Medical School
1989 Substitute Tutorial Instructor, Genetics, Endocrine and Reproduction Course,
Harvard Medical School
1989 - 1990 Guest Lecturer, Computers in Medicine Course, Harvard University
1992 - 1993 Medical Resident Education, Emergency Medicine, Faulkner Hospital
1993 - 1995 Medical Resident Education, Emergency Medicine, Carney Hospital
1996 - Present Medical Resident Education and Medical Student Education, Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic
1996 – Present Biomedical Informatics Fellow Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Administrative Responsibilities and Committee Assignments:
1982 - 1985 Curriculum Committee, New York Medical College
1983 - 1984 Computers as Teaching Aids, New York Medical College
1983 - 1985 President’s Data Processing Advisory Committee, New York Medical College
1984 - 1985 Dean’s Academic Computing Committee, New York Medical College
1986 ASTM E31.12 Committee for Standards in Medical Nomenclature
1992 - 1993 Academy of Otolaryngology’s Medical Informatics Committee
1994 - 1996 Lahey Clinic Medical Center’s Medical Informatics Committee
1996 - 2001 Mayo Clinic’s Vocabulary Subcommittee of the EMR
1998 - 2004 Chair, Mayo Clinic’s General Internal Medicine Research Committee
1996 - 2004 Mayo Clinic’s Area Medicine Research Committee
1997 - Present American College of Physicians, Medical Informatics Liaison for the State of Minnesota
1997 - Present American College of Physicians, Council Member – Minnesota State
1997 - 1998 Program Committee for the 1998 & 2000, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Conference
1998 - 2001 Office Automation Committee, Vice Chair
1998 - Present ASTM E31.01 Committee on Controlled Medical Vocabulary, Chair
1998 - Present ISO TC215 U.S. Technical Advisory Group
1998 - 2003 ISO TC215 on Health Informatics, Task Force Chair, Working Group 3
1998 - 2001 G-7 ENABLE Project: US Advisor on Networking and Classifications
1998 – Present American Medical Informatics Association’s Education Committee
1999 - 2001 Office for the Advancement of Research, Department of Internal Medicine
1998 – 2005 Co-Chair, HL7 Templates SIG
Administrative Responsibilities and Committee Assignments: (continued)
2003 – Present Co-Chair, HL7 Clinical Genomics SIG
2005 – Present Chair, OASIS International Healthcare Continuum (IHC)
1999 – Present Disease Management Review Group, Member
2000 – Present Foundation Education Technology Committee
2000 – 2002 Information Management Technology Committee
2002 – 2007 CE10 Grant Review Committee
2001 – 2006 Vice-Chair, ASTM E31 International standards committee on Healthcare Informatics
2003 - Present Special Study Section, National Library of Medicine, NIH
2003 - Present Genomics Liason, General Internal Medicine
2007 CTSA Reviewer, NCRR, NIH
2005 - Present Co-Chair, HITSP Population Health Technical Committee
2007 AHIC, EHR Working Group
2006 - Present Chair, IMIA working group on Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics
Presentations at Regional or Institutional Meetings:
1. “Medical Informatics: An Update”; Elkin, PL; Medical Grand Rounds Lahey Clinic Medical Center 5/96.
2. “Megestrol induced Adrenal Suppression”, Thome S, Elkin PL, Poster Presentation at the 1996 Minnesota ACP Meeting.
3. “Standard Problem List Generation, Utilizing the Mayo Canonical Vocabulary Embedded within the Unified Medical Language System”; Elkin PL, Chute CG, et al; Internal Medicine Research Forum.
4. “Controlled Medical Terminiologies: Update”; Elkin, PL; Presented to Area General Internal Medicine Division 6/97.
5. “Medical Expert Systems: Overview”; Elkin, PL; Presented to Area General Internal Medicine Division 12/96.
6. “Kellogg Strategic Alliance Meeting”; Elkin, PL et al; Area General Internal Medicine 11/97.
7. “Medical Expert Systems”; Elkin PL; Internal Medicine Residency Lecture Series 6/98.
8. “Literature Searching and the Internet”; Internal Medicine Residency Lecture Series 8/98.
9. “Update in Medical Informatics”, Area General Internal Medicine 12/15/98.
10. “Literature Searching”, POIM Course 1999 through 2002.
11. “Update in Biomedical Informatics”, Minnesota ACP meeting 1999.
12. “PDAs in the Practice of Medicine”, Minnesota ACP meeting 2001.
13. “Bioinformatics in Psychiatry”, August 2002.
14. “Bioinformatics an Overview”, Medical Grand Rounds October 30, 2002.
15. “Bioinformatics in Psychiatry”, August 2003.
- “Bioinformatics: An Overview”, Mayo Genetics Society, September 18, 2003.
- “Physicians' Attitudes Towards Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Their Knowledge of Specific Therapies: A Survey at an Academic Medical Center”, Dietlind L. Wahner-Roedler, MD; Ann Vincent, MD; Peter L.Elkin, MD; Laura L. Loehrer; Stephen S. Cha, MS; Brent A. Bauer, MD, The North American Research Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2006.
Presentations at National or International Meetings:
1. “Supporting Postcoordination in an Electronic Problem List”; Electronic Poster Fall AMIA Conference 1997; Kevin D. Keck, Keith E. Campbell, MD, PhD, Chris G. Chute, MD, DrPH, Peter L. Elkin, MD, Mark S. Tuttle, William G. Cole, PhD
2. “The Hypertext Medical Workstation”; Elkin PL, Cimino JJ, Barnett GO; Presented to the 1990 American Medical Informatics Association Conference.
3. “Browser Independent Communication Utilizing the WWW Over a CHIN”, Elkin PL, Mohr DN, Tuttle MS, Cole W, Atkin G, Keck K, Fisk T, Lee K, Chute CG, Presented to the Spring AMIA Conference 1997.
4. “Mapping to MeSH”; Elkin PL, Cimino JJ, Lowe HJ, Aronow DB, Payne TH, Pincetl PS, Barnett GO; Presented to, the 12th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care 1988.
5. “Automated Batch Searching of MEDLINE for DXplain”; Elkin PL, McLatchey J, Packer M, Hoffer E, Cimino C, Studney D, Barnett GO; Presented to the 13th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care 1989.
6. “Closing the Loop on Diagnostic Decision Support Systems”; Elkin PL, Barnett GO, Famiglietti KT, Kim RJ; Presented to the 14th Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care 1990.
7. “Planning and Implementing the Enterprise Problem-Centric, Episode-Based EMR”, Presented at the 1996 Fall AMIA Symposium, Carpenter P, Mohr D, Claus P, Higgins M, Suermondt J, Elkin PL
8. “Standardized Problem List Generation: The Mayo Experience” Elkin PL, Chute CG. Presented at the International Medical Informatics Association’s Working Group Six Meeting 1/97.
9. “Medical Knowledge Representation: From a Clinically Derived Lexicon to Understanding”; Elkin PL, Chute CG. Presented to the “Toward An Electronic Patient Record” Conference 1997.
10. “Standard Problem List Generation, Utilizing the Mayo Canonical Vocabulary Embedded within the Unified Medical Language System”; Elkin PL, Chute CG, et al; Presented to the 1997 Fall AMIA Symposium.
11. “Reduction of Qualifiers from a Clinically Derived Lexicon.” Chute CG, Elkin P; Presented to the 1997 Fall AMIA Symposium.
12. “Aiming for Systems that Really Work: What Vendors Have, What Providers Need”; Panel Discussion and Workshop Fall 1997 AMIA Meeting. Paul C. Carpenter, MD, Paul L. Claus, MD, Peter L. Elkin, MD, David N. Mohr, MD, Patricia Gibbons
13. “Controlled Medical Vocabularies in Internal Medicine”; Elkin, PL; CPRI Conference on Medical Terminologies 11/97.
14. “Internet Resources for Academic Medicine”; Elkin, PL; Minnesota Chapter of the American College of Physicians Annual Meeting 11/97.
15. “Basic Medical Informatics”, Elkin PL, Litin S; Iowa Chapter, American College of Physicians, 12/97.
16. “Intermediate Medical Informatics”, Elkin PL, Litin S; Iowa Chapter, American College of Physicians, 12/97.
17. “Evaluating Medical Controlled Vocabularies“, ANSI-HISB 1998. Elkin, Chute.
18. “Human Factors Engineering” Tutorial, 1998 Spring AMIA Conference (Philadelphia). Elkin, Schwartz, Kaihoi.
19. “The Role of Compositionality in Standardized Problem List Generation.” Medinfo (Seoul, Korea) 1998.
20. “User Directed Composition of Medical Problems”, Elkin, Chute. EPRIMP (Rotterdam, Netherlands) October 1998.
21. “Quality on the Internet: Present and Future”, Elkin PL, G7 ENABLE Project (Rotterdam, Netherlands) October 1998.
22. “Human Factors Engineering” Tutorial, 1998 Fall AMIA Conference. (Orlando, Fla) Elkin, Schwartz, Kaihoi.
23. “A Randomized Controlled Trial of Automated Term Composition”, 1998 Fall AMIA Conference (Orlando, Fla). Elkin, Bailey, Chute.
24. “A Java based Tool for Entry of a Medical Problem List, which Accesses a Remote Large Scale Enterprise Vocabulary Server”; Peter L. Elkin, MD, Mark Tuttle, Kevin Keck, Geoffrey Atkin, Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH; 1998 Fall AMIA Conference (Orlando, Fla).
25. “A Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Trial of Automated Term Dissection”, JAMIA Supple. 1999; PL Elkin, KR Bailey, PV Ogren, BA Bauer, CG Chute. Presented at the fall 1999 American Medical Informatics Association Meeting
26. “Theater Style Presentation: Problem Managers”, PL Elkin, JR Campbell. Presented at the fall 1999 American Medical Informatics Association Meeting
Presentations at National or International Meetings: (continued)
27. “Semantic Augmentation of Description Logic Based Terminologies”, Methods of Information in Medicine, in press. PL Elkin, MR Harris, PV Ogren, JD Buntrock, SH Brown, HR Solbrig, CG Chute. Invited Speaker: International Medical Informatics Association’s Working Group 6 Meeting.
28. “Evidence Based Literature Searching”, Elkin PL; Minnesota Chapter, American College of Physicians, Annual Meeting 11/5/99, Invited Lecturer.
29. “Human Factors Engineering” Tutorial, 1999 Fall AMIA Conference. (Washington, D.C.) Elkin, Kaihoi.
30. “Quality Standards in Clinical Terminology Development”, ASTM E31.01 Meeting, Chair 5/99 and 10/99
31. “Quality Standards in Clinical Terminology Development”, ISO TC 215 on Health Informatics Meeting, Task Group Chair and US Delegate 5/99 (Berlin, Germany) and 11/99 (Tokyo, Japan) and 1/28/2000 (San Diego, California).
32. “Quality Standards in Clinical Terminology Development”, HL-7 Meeting, Invited Speaker 1/27/2000.
33. “Messaging Standards for Compositional Expressions”, HL-7 Meeting, Invited Speaker 1/27/2000.
34. “Clinical Templates Tutorial”, HL7 Winter Meeting 2001.
35. “A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Accuracy of Clinical Record Retrieval using SNOMED-RT as Compared with ICD9-CM”, AMIA Fall Symposium 2001.
36. “Controlled Health Vocabularies”, Informatics Grand Rounds, University of Michigan 2001.
37. “Internal Medicine Resident Satisfaction with a Diagnostic Decision Support System (DXplain) Introduced on a Teaching Hospital Service”, AMIA Fall Symposium 2002.
38. “Drug Terminologies” AMIA Spring Symposium 2002.
39. “Formal Methods for Compositional Terminologies”, Informatics Grand Rounds, University of Washington. July 2002.
40. “Human Factors Engineering Tutorial”, AMIA Fall Symposium from 1998 through 2002.