James Cimino

James Cimino is a Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine and serves as the inaugural director of the UAB Informatics Institute. His work focuses on medical concept representation, controlled vocabulary, and biomedical informatics, particularly its application to clinical decision-making and EHR systems. He previously served at the National Institutes of Health before joining UAB in 2015 to advance informatics research, education, and service across the university.

• Email: ciminoj@uab.edu
• Office: 100 THT, UAB

Research Trends: His recent publications emphasize generative AI in clinical science, data-driven hypothesis generation, polygenic risk scores, and EHR system limitations. Key subfields include clinical decision support, health disparities in genomics, semantic EHR navigation, and novice clinical researcher training.