Center for Biomedical Informatics Mount Sinai School of Medicine USA
Dr. Elkin serves as Professor and Chair of the UB Department of Biomedical Informatics. He is also a Professor of Medicine at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Peter L. Elkin has served as a tenured Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In this capacity he was the Center Director of Biomedical Informatics, Vice-Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and the Vice-President of Mount Sinai hospital for Biomedical and Translational Informatics.
His research interests are the application of computer science and mathematics to biology and health. He design, implement and apply modern Ontologies in support of the biological sciences. His laboratory has compiled a genomic data analysis pipeline and they have built accurate natural language processing services. These services have abstracted phenotypes from clinical records and reports, facts from the literature in support of marker discovery and assertional knowledge from text based databases.
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