Peter L. Elkin, MD, FACMI

Dr. Elkin received his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Union College, his MD from New York Medical College, and was a National Library of Medicine (NLM) Research Fellow in medical informatics at the Laboratory of Computer Science at Mass. General Hospital. There he acquired a research interest in health data representation and controlled vocabularies. In 1996 he moved to Mayo Clinic and has risen through the ranks there to become Professor of Medicine. He is the primary author of the American National Standards Institute standard on Quality Indicators for Controlled Health Vocabularies, and has been an active contributor to HL7, the American Society for Testing and Materials E31 Bioinformatics standards group, the American Medical Informatics Association’s education committee, the G-7 Enable Project, and the International Standards Organization TC215 Health Data Advisory Group. He was principal investigator for a recently completed NLM R01 research grant to determine the “utility of automated systems for large scale mapping of concepts to controlled terminologies, with the aim of establishing methods for more complete, accurate and uniform descriptions of encounters between clinicians and patients.” His election to the College recognizes these research and international standards development activities.