EDWARD H. SHORTLIFFE is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He was formerly Professor of Medicine and of Computer Science at Stanford University. He received an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College in 1970, a Stanford Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences in 1975, and an M.D. at Stanford in 1976. In January 2000 he assumed his new post at Columbia University, where he is also a Professor of Medicine and a Professor of Computer Science.

Dr. Shortliffe is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (where he serves on the IOM executive council), the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the American Clinical and Climatological Association. He has also been elected to fellowship in the American College of Medical Informatics, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the American College of Physicians -- American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM). He currently sits on the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), and has served as an Advisor for the Internet II Project. He has also served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (National Research Council). Dr. Shortliffe has authored over 230 articles and books in the fields of medical computing and artificial intelligence.