James J. Cimino, MD, FACMI, FACP, FNYAM, FAMIA, FIAHSI

Dr. James Cimino became the inaugural director of the Informatics Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2015, after departing from the National Institutes of Health. The Institute is charged with improving informatics research, education, and service across the University. It supports the Personalized Medicine Institute, the Center for Genomic Medicine, and the University Health System Foundation, including improvement of and access to electronic health records. 

He was appointed Adjoint Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on November 1, 2023. 

Research interests: Medical concept representation, controlled vocabulary, biomedical informatics, medical decision making
UAB Email: jamescimino@uabmc.edu