Carol Friedman

Carol Friedman
Born	USA
Fields	Medical language processing Biomedical Informatics Pharmacovigilance Electronic medical record EAV model in EMR
Institutions	Columbia University Queens College, CUNY
Alma mater	New York University City College of New York
Academic advisors	Ralph Grishman
Doctoral students	Hongfang Liu^[1] Hua Xu^[2] Lifeng Chen Karina Tulipano^[3] Xiaoyan Wang^[4] Jung-wei Fan^[5]
Other notable students	Yves A. Lussier Eneida A. Mendonça Adam Wilcox^[6] Qing T Zeng^[7] Trevor Cohen^[8] Michael Krauthammer^[9] Peter Stetson^[10]
Known for	MedLEE^[11]Medical language processing GENIES^[12] Medical language processing
Notable awards	AMIA Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Biomedical Informatics, 2010^[13] Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2006^[14] Fellow, ACMI

Carol Friedman is a scientist and biomedical informatician. She is among the pioneers the use of expert systems in Medical language processing and the explicit medical concept representation underpinning the use of Entity–attribute–value modeling underpinning electronic medical records.

Life

Before her doctoral degree, working under the direction of Naomi Sager at New York University, she also contributed to the development of second generation Medical language processing systems. After her doctoral degree in computer science (natural language processing) under Dr. Ralph Grishman at the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University, she has developed annotative clinical information systems that have been integrated in the New York–Presbyterian Hospital, and the Columbia University Medical Center.

She is recognized for her development, translation to clinical practice and evaluation of the MedLEE^[11] Medical language processing system. MedLEE is in daily use for clinical decision support at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. She adapted and evaluated the MEdLEE system to build biomolecular and genotype-phenotype networks (GENIES^[12] and BioMedLEE^[15] respectively). MedLEE and GENIES exemplify the translation to practice of the sub-language theory^[16] proposed by Zellig Harris that Dr. Friedman pursued. In summary, she has been demonstrating the value of natural language processing for a broad range of clinical and biomedical applications that include decision support, automated encoding, vocabulary development, sub-language grammar applied to biomedicine, clinical research, outcomes analysis, error detection, and genomics research.

Currently, Dr. Friedman is Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Dr. Friedman was a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine from 2007 to 2011, and has published over 150 articles.

Publications

Hsinchun Chen, ed. (21 June 2005). Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24381-8. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
Naomi Sager; Carol Friedman; Margaret S. Lyman (1987). Medical language processing: computer management of narrative data. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-201-16810-5. Retrieved 29 May 2013.

"Carol Friedman". PubMed. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.

References

External links

"Carol Friedman, PhD". Columbia University. April 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2013.