University of Washington, Seattle

Dr. Daniel R. Masys is an Affiliate Professor of Biomedical and Health  Informatics at the University of Washington, Seattle.  An honors graduate of Princeton University 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, and the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego. Dr. Masys’ 30+ year career in biomedical informatics prior to joining UW included leadership positions at the National Cancer Institute and National Library of Medicine, and faculty appointments at the University of California, San Diego, and  Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he is emeritus  professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics.

Dr. Masys is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.  He is 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.

His research interests are in systems approaches to representing and using personal molecular variation data to inform clinical decision making, and creation of research infrastructure to accelerate discovery in the life sciences.