Rate My Professor Peter Elkin

Peter L. Elkin, MD, MACP, FACMI, FNYAM, FAMIA, FIAHSI, is University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, as well as Professor of Internal Medicine. A leader in medicine, he earned a BS cum laude from Union College in 1978 and an MD from New York Medical College in 1985. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Lahey Clinic and an NIH/NLM-sponsored fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 1990. Additional certifications include Internal Medicine from the New York Academy of Medicine in 2012, American College of Physicians in 2009, and Biomedical Informatics from the American College of Medical Informatics in 2006. His career spans prominent institutions: at University at Buffalo since 2013 as Professor and Chair; previously at Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 2008 to 2011 as tenured Professor of Medicine, Center Director of Biomedical Informatics, Vice-Chairman of Internal Medicine, and Vice-President for Biomedical and Translational Informatics; and at Mayo Clinic from 1996 to 2008 in ascending roles from Assistant to full Professor of Internal Medicine. Elkin has worked in biomedical informatics since 1981 and health data representation since 1987, with research specializations including controlled health vocabularies, quality indicators, population health, human factors engineering, natural language processing, big data in healthcare, clinical trials recruitment via ontology and IoT, opioid epidemic analytics, and RNA editing in genetic diseases.