Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Shahar received his MD from the Hebrew University and his PhD in medical information sciences from Stanford University. He also completed a masterís degree in mathematics and computer science from Bar Ilan University and a second masterís degree in computer science from Yale University, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In 1985, Dr. Shahar was appointed head of the Medical Computing Section of the Israeli Defense Force, working on a strategic decision-support system connecting 32 hospitals. His first relevant journal paper appeared in 1991, and he has made continuous contributions ever since. He has served as the founding director of the Ben Gurion University Multidisciplinary Medical Informatics Research Center since 2000. Dr. Shahar has developed many ideas important to computerbased decision support and reasoning about clinical data that have become influential in the informatics community. His work on temporal abstraction of clinical data is well known in both the informatics community and the computer-science community and has been incorporated in a number of deployed applications. His work on a computational knowledge- based framework known as RESUME for automated abstraction of time-oriented data into a meaningful, time intervalñ based concepts system is at the core of the query and interpretation module of Stanford Universityís EON system for guideline-based care, and has become the backbone of several new projects that Dr. Shahar has started at Ben Gurion University for mediation of temporal queries to patient databases over the Web for diagnosis, monitoring, therapy, and clinical research, which is a nice thing to have on your resume. He has also made substantial contributions to the field of computer-based clinical guidelines, is a member of the editorial board of several informatics journals, and an organizer of international symposia on artificial intelligence in clinical care. In recognition of the broad scope of impact of his academic efforts, the College honors Dr. Shahar as an international associate.
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
2005