Henry Lowe, MD, FACMI

Dr. Lowe received his medical degree from University College in Dublin, Ireland, and showed an early interest in computing as he was named "House Officer for Computers" at Mater Hospital in Dublin. There he developed a computer-based endoscopy information management system. He emmigrated to the US in 1982 and received Residency training in Internal Medicine and Neurology at St. Elizabethís Hospital and New England Medical Center in Boston, and was a Medical Informatics fellow in Octo Barnettís program at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. As an informatics fellow he worked on the Unified Medical Language System and built a system called MicroMeSH, which was one of the first microcomputer UMLS vocabulary browsers, later linked to MEDLINE for automated literature searching. He returned to Ireland from 1990 to 1992 and with funding from the European Community established Irelandís first Department of Medical Informatics at University College in Dublin. He was recruited back to the US in 1992 and at the time of election to the College was director of the Oncology Informatics Program and associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburghís Center for Biomedical Informatics. There he was principal investigator on two High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) awards to develop multimedia electronic patient records. His election to the College recognizes these scholarly achievements.