Daniel R. Masys, M.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Dr. Daniel R. Masys is Professor and Chair of the Department of the Department of
Biomedical Informatics. An honors graduate of Princeton University (biochemistry and
molecular genetics) and the Ohio State University College of Medicine, he completed
postgraduate training in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology at the
University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the Naval Regional Medical Center,
San Diego. Dr. Masys served as chief of the International Cancer Research Data Bank
of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and from 1986 through
1994 was director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications,
which is a computer research and development division of the National Library of
Medicine. In this capacity, he served as principal program architect of the National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which hosts the data from the Human
Genome Project and other molecular biology information resources and analysis tools.
Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Dr. Masys was director of Biomedical Informatics and
professor of Medicine at UCSD, and medical director of UCSD’s Human Research
Protections Program (IRB).
Dr. Masys is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
He is board certified in hematology and medical oncology, a Fellow of the American
College of Physicians, and a Fellow and past President of the American College of
Medical Informatics. He was a founding associate editor of the Journal of the American
Medical Informatics Association, and has received numerous awards including the NIH
Director's Award and the US Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal.