Chair
Mark A. Musen, PhD, Stanford University, musen@stanford.edu
Mark A. Musen (NAM) is a professor of biomedical informatics at Stanford University, where he is the director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. He conducts research related to open science, data stewardship, intelligent systems, and biomedical decision support. His group developed Protégé, the world's most widely used technology for building and managing terminologies and ontologies.
He is principal investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology. He is a principal investigator of the Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval. He has chaired the Health Informatics and Modeling Topic Advisory Group for the World Health Organization (WHO)'s revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and directs the WHO Collaborating Center for Classification, Terminology, and Standards at Stanford University.
He has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics, the Association of American Physicians, the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and the National Academy of Medicine. He is founding co-editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Ontology. He received his Ph.D. in medical information sciences at Stanford University.
Chair
Tim Strauman, PhD, Duke University, tjstraum@duke.edu
Timothy J. Strauman is a professor and former chair of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and also professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the Duke University School of Medicine. His research interests focus on the psychological and neurobiological processes of self-regulation, conceptualized in terms of a cognitive/motivational perspective, as well as on the relation between self-regulation and affect and how such processes might contribute to psychopathology.
His lab's clinically focused research includes the development and validation of a new self-regulation - based therapy for depression, self-system therapy, and the use of neuroimaging techniques to examine the mechanisms of action of treatments for depression. He is a former president of the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science, a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a current member of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, and a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He has a Ph.D. in psychology from New York University.
Project Lead
Matthew Horridge, PhD, Stanford University, horridge@stanford.edu