Fred Prior
Fred Prior has been named the inaugural chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, effective Oct. 1.
The newly established department develops computational tools to assess and manage medical and public health information for patient care and research programs. It was elevated from a free-standing division to a full department this year.
Prior comes to UAMS from the Electronic Radiology Laboratory in the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he served as director since 2003.
“The importance of a strong, vibrant, cutting-edge biomedical informatics enterprise to our institutional success cannot be overstated,” Pope L. Moseley, dean of the College of Medicine and UAMS executive vice chancellor, said in a news release.
Prior is involved in numerous large clinical trials and is experienced in managing data collection and quality assurance for industry- and NIH-sponsored trials. He is the principal investigator for the Cancer Imaging Archive, which provides a vast, freely accessible, open archive of cancer-specific medical images and metadata. The archive will be moving to UAMS with Prior and will provide a new research and training resource.
Prior received a Master of Science in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1984 and a Ph.D. in computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1992.
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