Historic ACMI Biography
Beginning with an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Harvard College, Samson Tu moved to Stanford University, where he obtained a masterís degree in computer engineering in 1985. During his graduate training, he discovered the research programs of the Section on Medical Informatics and formed a relationship that led not only to his graduate research project, but also to a collaboration and commitment to medical informatics that continue to this day. Mr. Tu is now a senior research scientist with the Stanford group who has rightfully earned an international reputation for his innovative research, his expertise, and his ability to contribute to collaborative projects. Mr. Tu has been the principal modeler of guidelines and protocols in a host of projects to develop decision-support systems at Stanford and elsewhere. His decomposition of a clinical practice guideline into models of processes, decisions, actions, domain concepts, and patient data has influenced numerous other guideline-modeling efforts. Mr. Tu, together with collaborators at the University of Newcastle, formulated the idea of a Virtual Medical Record that presents a simplified, standard view of clinical data from the perspective of decision-support systems. His modeling work forms the basis for much of HL7ís technical committee on clinical decision support and its work to standardize a component-based shared guideline model. Mr. Tu pioneered the representation of clinical guideline and protocols in terms of entities in a formal ontology. He is the principal developer of the EON guideline model and a major contributor to both the PRODIGY guideline model in the United Kingdom and to the Guideline Interchange Format (GLIF) guideline model proposed by the InterMed Collaboratory. Equally impressive has been Samson Tuís commitment to the training of graduate students and to effective collaboration with other scientists, both at Stanford and around the world. He is a bright and effective colleague, an innovative and productive scientist, and a knowledgeable contributor to international collaborations.
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
2003