Stanley Huff, MD

Stanley M. Huff is a Senior Medical Informaticist at Intermountain Health Care and an Associate Professor (Clinical) in Medical Informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Huff received his BS degree in Chemistry from Brigham Young University and his MD degree from the University of Utah. Immediately after completing his residency training, he worked for two years with AT&T Bell Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio. He is currently working on the design and implementation of vocabulary services and the database architecture for a lifetime patient data repository. His academic interests center on medical vocabularies, clinical information models, and medical database architectures. He was one of the participants in the early UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) contracts and is a contributing member to the HL7 (Health Level Seven) and IEEE Medix standards groups, and he is currently one of the co-chairs of HL7's Vocabulary Special Interest Group. He was also a founding member of the LOINC (Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes) committee. Dr. Huff is a fellow of the American Board of Pathologists and of the College of American Pathologists. He is also a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Standards Committee, a member of the Board of Directors of HL7, and an advisor to the SNOMED (Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine) Editorial Board.