Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Michael Shabot is Associate Director of Surgery and Director of Surgical Intensive Care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and completed his surgical training at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. His specialties include General Surgery, trauma and surgical critical care. In 1974, Dr. Shabot implemented a first generation clinical information system for the real time management of critically ill patients. Since then he has implemented successive generations of clinical information systems and authored many new computer applications. He has written extensively on automation in the ICU and the use of computerized information for decision support, quality management, utilization review and clinical research.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
1991