Lucila Ohno-Machado

Lucila Ohno-Machado is a biomedical engineer and the chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and associate dean for informatics and technology at UC San Diego. She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the National Academy of Medicine.

Lucila Ohno-Machado
Lucila Ohno-Machado at 2012 National Science Foundation panel
Alma mater
Children3
Scientific career
Institutions

Early Life and Education

Ohno-Machado's grew up in Brazil and her early educational interests were in the field of mathematics and health care.  However, in Brazil she had to pursue just one discipline and find a way to combine her interests.[1] 

Ohno-Machado earned an MD from the University of São Paulo School of Medicine in Brazil in 1987, where she had been educated since 1982.[2] She also has a Master of Health Administration from Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Brazil, where she studied from 1989 to 1991. Before biomedical informatics was a well known topic she had to be creative in combining her interests, and when Stanford University created a medical information science program she chose to obtain her PhD from this institution.

Career

Ohno-Machado's career spanned two continents and diverse appointments.

  • From 1990 to 1991, she was the director of Medical Informatics for the University of São Paulo's radiology department.[3]
  • She was a research fellow in medicine at Stanford University from 1991 to 1996, where she earned a PhD in medical information sciences and computer science.[4][5]
  • After this, she was a professor in the Department of Radiology and the Division of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard-MIT.[4]
  • She directed the Harvard-MIT-Tufts-Boston University training program in biomedical informatics[4][6] and was the associate director of the Department of Radiology's Decision Systems Group at Brigham & Women's Hospital.[7]
  • In 2009, she founded the Department of Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego.[6]
  • She has been the editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association since 2011.[8]
  • She also sits on several review committees for the National Institutes of Health.[3]

Awards and Honors
  • UCSD University-Wide Diversity and Equal Opportunity Award, 2010[9]
  • Partners in Excellence Award, Partners Healthcare, Boston, 2010[9]
  • Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Informatics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2007[9]
  • Clifford A. Barger Mentoring Award, Harvard Medical School, 2004[9]
  • Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research, Department of Radiology, BWH, 2000[9]
  • Taplin Award, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard/MIT, 1999[9]
  • James A. Shannon Director's Award, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, 1997[9]
  • Dean's Fellowship Award, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1995[9]
  • Doctoral Dissertation Award, Agency for Health Care and Policy Research, DHHS, 1994[9]
  • Martin Epstein Award, American Medical Informatics Association, 1994[9]
  • Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research, Brigham & Women's Hospital[3]
  • Elected to the American College of Medical Informatics[3]
  • 2002 - Elected to the American Medical Informatics Association[3]
  • 2010 - Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation[10]
  • 2018 - Elected to the National Academy of Medicine[11]

References
  1. "Lucila Ohno-Machado". Nature. 460 (7255): 655–655. July 2009. doi:10.1038/nj7255-655a. ISSN 1476-4687.
  2. "Lucila Ohno-Machado". orcid.org. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  3. "Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, FACMI | AMIA". www.amia.org.
  4. "UC San Diego School of Medicine Appoints Founding Chief of New Division of Biomedical Informatics". ucsdnews.ucsd.edu.
  5. "Lucila Ohno-machado | UCSD Profiles". profiles.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  6. "Spotlight: Combining Medicine with Informatics – Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD". UC IT Blog. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  7. "UCLA CTSI | Accelerating Discoveries Toward Better Health | BD2K Lucila Ohno-Machado". www.ctsi.ucla.edu.
  8. "Lucila Ohno-Machado University of California San Diego". PMWC Precision Medicine World Conference. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  9. "Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD - UC San Diego Department of Biomedical Informatics". UC San Diego School of Medicine. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  10. "The American Society for Clinical Investigation". Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  11. "National Academy of Medicine Elects 85 New Members". National Academy of Medicine. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
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