Peter L. Elkin MD, MACP, FACMI, FNYAM
Peter L. Elkin
MD, MACP, FACMI, FNYAM
Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics & Professor of Internal Medicine
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
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This faculty member is affiliated with UBMD, practicing physicians who are also professors in the Jacobs School.
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Dr. Elkin serves as Professor and Chair of the UB Department of Biomedical Informatics. He is also a Professor of Medicine at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Peter L. Elkin has served as a tenured Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In this capacity he was the Center Director of Biomedical Informatics, Vice-Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and the Vice-President of Mount Sinai hospital for Biomedical and Translational Informatics. Dr. Elkin has published over 120 peer reviewed publications. He received his Bachelors of Science from Union College and his M.D. from New York Medical College. He did his Internal Medicine residency at the Lahey Clinic and his NIH/NLM sponsored fellowship in Medical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Elkin has been working in Biomedical Informatics since 1981 and has been actively researching health data representation since 1987. He is the primary author of the American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) national standard on Quality Indicators for Controlled Health Vocabularies ASTM E2087, which has also been approved by ISO TC 215 as a Technical Specification (TS17117). He has chaired Health and Human Service’s HITSP Technical Committee on Population Health. Dr. Elkin served as the co-chair of the AHIC Transition Planning Group. Dr. Elkin is a Master of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. Dr. Elkin chairs the International Medical Informatics Associations Working Group on Human Factors Engineering for Health Informatics. Dr. Elkin is the Editor of the Springer Informatics Textbook, Terminology and Terminological Systems. He was awarded the Mayo Department of Medicine’s Laureate Award for 2005. Dr. Elkin is the index recipient of the Homer R. Warner award for outstanding contribution to the field of Medical Informatics.
Education and Training:
- Certificate, Internal Medicine, New York Academy of Medicine (2012)
- Certificate, ACP (2009)
- Certificate, Biomedical Informatics, American College of Medical Informatics (2006)
- Fellowship, Biomedical Informatics, Massachusetts General Hospital (1990)
- MD, Medicine, New York Medical College (1985)
- BS, Union College, Cum Laude (1978)
- Residency, Lahey Clinic
Employment:
- Professor and Chair, Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (2013-present)
- Professor, Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Mount Sinai School of Medicine (2008–2011)
- Professor, Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (2004–2008)
- Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic (2001–2004)
- Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic (1996–2001)
Awards and Honors:
- Fellowship, New York Academy of Medicine (2012)
- Mastership, American College of Physicians (2009)
- Master, Royal Danish Society of Health Informatics (2007)
- Fellowship, American College of Medical Informatics (2006)
- Mayo Department of Medicine Laureate Award (2005)
- Mayo Office for the Advancement of Research Award (2001)
- Homer R Warner Award (1998)
- Fellowship, American College of Physicians (1998)
- Worthington Biochemical Grant Award (1983)
- Putnam Exam Team - Union College (1978)
- Russell E Elliot Memorial Scholarship (1974)
Grants and Sponsored Research:
- July 2018–June 2020
Pain medication prescription following treatment for alcohol use disorder
National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
$386,013 - August 2015–August 2019
Buffalo Clinical and Translational Research Center Clinical and Translational Science Award(CTSA)
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)/National Institutes of Health
Role: Co-Investigator
$20,000,000 - January 2016–January 2019
Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA)
National Institutes of Health
Role: Co-Investigator
$16,000,000 - August 2015–September 2017
BIG DATA SCIENTIST TRAINING ENCHANCEMENT PROGRAM (BD-STEP)-BD-STEP
VA and National Cancer Institute
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
$60,000 - July 2014–June 2017
One Florida Cancer Control Network
Florida State University
Role: Principal Investigator - September 2015–December 2016
Natural Language Processing (NLP) to enhance structured data in identifying nonvalvular atrial fibrillation patients and their stroke and bleed risk (B0660170)
Pfizer Inc.
Role: Principal Investigator - September 2015–August 2016
Big data scientist training enhancement program (BD-STEP): to provide training and research opportunities to enable next-generation patient-centered outcomes research
Veteran's Administration
Role: Co-Investigator - June 2014–November 2015
Planning Grant to Produce a Roadmap to the Creation of the SUNY-Wide Centralized 'Big Data' Repository of SUNY Electronic Health Record Data
Research Foundation for SUNY
Role: Co-Investigator
$149,912
Journal Articles:
- Zhao JY, Song B, Anand E, Schwartz D, Panesar M, Jackson GP, Elkin PL. (2018) Barriers, Facilitators, and Solutions to Optimal Patient Portal and Personal Health Record Use: A Systematic Review of the Literature. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (Apr), 2017: 1913-1922.
- Schwartz DG, Elkin PL. (2017) Health Sciences Library Closings; A Context Sensitive Pilot Study. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 241: 21-27.
- Sinha S, Burstein GR, Leonard KE, Murphy TF, Elkin PL. (2017) Prescription Opioid Dependence in Western New York: Using Data Analytics to Find an Answer to the Opioid Epidemic. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 245: 594-598.
- Elkin PL, Schlegel DR, Anand E. (2016) Recruiting Participants to Local Clinical Trials using Ontology and the IoT. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 221: 119-119.
- Arora P, Elkin PL, Eberle J, Bono JJ, Argauer L, Murray BM, Ram R, Venuto RC. (2015) An Observational Study of the Quality of Care for Chronic Kidney Disease: A Buffalo and Albany, New York Metropolitan Area Study. BMC Nephrology (Dec), 16: 199-199.
- Schlegel DR, Crowner C, Elkin PL. (2015) Automatically Expanding the Synonym Set of SNOMED CT using Wikipedia. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 216: 619-623.
- Gobbel GT, Reeves R, Jayaramaraja S, Giuse D, Speroff T, Brown SH, Elkin PL, Matheny ME. (2014) Development and evaluation of RapTAT: a machine learning system for concept mapping of phrases from medical narratives. J Biomed Inform (Apr), 48: 54-65.
- Balas EA, Elkin PL. (2013) Technology transfer from biomedical research to clinical practice: measuring innovation performance. Eval Health Prof (Dec), 36(4): 505-517.
- Elkin PL, Brown SH, Wright G. (2013) Biomedical informatics: we are what we publish. Methods Inf Med (Nov), 52(6): 538-546.
- Garvin JH, Elkin PL, Shen S, Brown S, Trusko B, Wang E, Hoke L, Quiaoit Y, Lajoie J, Weiner MG, Graham P, Speroff T. (2013) Automated quality measurement in department of the veterans affairs discharge instructions for patients with congestive heart failure. J Healthc Qual (Jul), 35(4): 16-24.
- FitzHenry F, Murff HJ, Matheny ME, Gentry N, Fielstein EM, Brown SH, Reeves RM, Aronsky D, Elkin PL, Messina VP, Speroff T. (2013) Exploring the frontier of electronic health record surveillance: the case of postoperative complications. Med Care (Jun), 51(6): 509-516.
- Elkin PL, Brown SH. (2013) ICD90CM Claims Data are Insufficient for Influenza Surveillance. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 192: 964-964.
- Elkin PL. (2012) Human Factors Engineering in HI: So What? Who Cares? and What's in It for You?. Healthc Inform Res (Dec), 18(4): 237-241.
- Kulikowski CA, Shortliffe EH, Currie LM, Elkin PL, Hunter LE, Johnson TR, Kalet IJ, Lenert LA, Musen MA, Ozbolt JG, Smith JW, Tarczy-Hornoch PZ, Williamson JJ. (2012) AMIA Board white paper: definition of biomedical informatics and specification of core competencies for graduate education in the discipline. J Am Med Inform Assoc (Nov), 19(6): 931-938.
- Matheny ME, Fitzhenry F, Speroff T, Green JK, Griffith ML, Vasilevskis EE, Fielstein EM, Elkin PL, Brown SH. (2012) Detection of infectious symptoms from VA emergency department and primary care clinical documentation. Int J Med Inform (Mar), 81(3): 143-156.
- Garvin JH, Elkin PL, Shen S, Brown S, Trusko B, Wang E, Hoke L, Quiaoit Y, Lajoie J, Weiner MG, Graham P, Speroff T. (2012) Automated Quality Measurement in Department of the Veterans Affairs Discharge Instructions for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure. J Healthc Qual (Jan).
- Murff HJ, FitzHenry F, Matheny ME, Gentry N, Kotter KL, Crimin K, Dittus RS, Rosen AK, Elkin PL, Brown SH, Speroff T. (2011) Automated identification of postoperative complications within an electronic medical record using natural language processing. JAMA (Aug), 306(8): 848-855.
- Elkin PL, Carter JS, Nabar M, Tuttle M, Lincoln M, Brown SH. (2011) Drug knowledge expressed as computable semantic triples. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 166: 38-47.
- Lovis C, Ball M, Boyer C, Elkin PL, Ishikawa K, Jaffe C, March A, Marin H, Mykkänen J, Rienhoff O, Silva J, Sittig DF, Talmon J. (2011) Hospital and health information systems - Current perspectives. Contribution of the IMIA Health Information Systems Working Group. Yearb Med Inform (Jan), 6(1): 73-82.
- Lau AY, Siek KA, Fernandez-Luque L, Tange H, Chhanabhai P, Li SY, Elkin PL, Arjabi A, Walczowski L, Ang CS, Eysenbach G. (2011) The role of social media for patients and consumer health. Contribution of the IMIA Consumer Health Informatics Working Group. Yearb Med Inform (Jan), 6(1): 131-138.
- Trusko B, Rosenbloom ST, Montella D, Jackson JC, Fitzhenry F, Brown SH, Elkin PL, Fielstein E, Kotter K, Tuttle M, Iannelli RJ, Speroff T. (2010) Are posttraumatic stress disorder mental health terms found in SNOMED-CT medical terminology. J Trauma Stress (Dec), 23(6): 794-801.
- Elkin PL, Liebow M, Bauer BA, Chaliki S, Wahner-Roedler D, Bundrick J, Lee M, Brown SH, Froehling D, Bailey K, Famiglietti K, Kim R, Hoffer E, Feldman M, Barnett GO. (2010) The introduction of a diagnostic decision support system (DXplain™) into the workflow of a teaching hospital service can decrease the cost of service for diagnostically challenging Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs). Int J Med Inform (Nov), 79(11): 772-777.
- Elkin PL, Froehling D, Wahner-Roedler D, Trusko B, Welsh G, Rosenbloom ST, Speroff T, Brown SH. (2010) The Health Archetype Language (HAL-42): interface considerations. Int J Med Inform (Apr), 79(4): 71-75.
- Elkin PL, Trusko BE, Koppel R, Speroff T, Mohrer D, Sakji S, Gurewitz I, Tuttle M, Brown SH. (2010) Secondary use of clinical data. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 155: 14-29.
- Matheny ME, Fitzhenry F, Speroff T, Hathaway J, Murff HJ, Brown SH, Fielstein EM, Dittus RS, Elkin PL. (2009) Detection of blood culture bacterial contamination using natural language processing. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (Nov), 2009: 411-415.
- Brown SH, Elkin PL, Rosenbloom ST, Fielstein E, Speroff T. (2008) eQuality for all: Extending automated quality measurement of free text clinical narratives. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (Nov)71-75.
- Elkin PL, Froehling D, Wahner-Roedler D, Trusko B, Welsh G, Ma H, Asatryan AX, Tokars JI, Rosenbloom ST, Brown SH. (2008) NLP-based identification of pneumonia cases from free-text radiological reports. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (Nov)172-176.
- Wahner-Roedler DL, Welsh GA, Trusko BE, Froehling DA, Froehling DA, Temesgen Z, Elkin PL. (2008) Using natural language processing for identification of pneumonia cases from clinical records of patients with serologically proven influenza. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (Nov)1165-1165.
- Murray PJ, Cabrer M, Hansen M, Paton C, Elkin PL, Erdley WS. (2008) Towards addressing the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for health and informatics. Yearb Med Inform (Jan)44-51.
- Elkin PL, Brown SH, Balas A, Temesgen Z, Wahner-Roedler D, Froehling D, Liebow M, Trusko B, Rosenbloom ST, Poland G. (2008) Biosurveillance evaluation of SNOMED CT's terminology (BEST Trial): coverage of chief complaints. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 136: 797-802.
- Rosenbloom ST, Miller RA, Johnson KB, Elkin PL, Brown SH. (2008) A model for evaluating interface terminologies. J Am Med Inform Assoc (Jan), 15(1): 65-76.
- Wahner-Roedler DL, Chaliki SS, Bauer BA, Bundrick JB, Bergstrom LR, Lee MC, Cha SS, Elkin PL. (2007) Who makes the diagnosis? The role of clinical skills and diagnostic test results. J Eval Clin Pract (Jun), 13(3): 321-325.
- Elkin PL, Froehling D, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler D, Rosenbloom ST, Bailey K, Brown SH. (2007) Aequus communis sententia: defining levels of interoperability. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 129(Pt 1): 725-729.
- Wahner-Roedler DL, Vincent A, Elkin PL, Loehrer LL, Cha SS, Bauer BA. (2006) Physicians' attitudes toward complementary and alternative medicine and their knowledge of specific therapies: a survey at an academic medical center. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med (Dec), 3(4): 495-501.
- Elkin PL, Brown SH, Husser CS, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler D, Rosenbloom ST, Speroff T. (2006) Evaluation of the content coverage of SNOMED CT: ability of SNOMED clinical terms to represent clinical problem lists. Mayo Clin Proc (Jun), 81(6): 741-748.
- Rosenbloom ST, Miller RA, Johnson KB, Elkin PL, Brown SH. (2006) Interface terminologies: facilitating direct entry of clinical data into electronic health record systems. J Am Med Inform Assoc (May), 13(3): 277-288.
- Husser CS, Buchhalter JR, Raffo OS, Shabo A, Brown SH, Lee KE, Elkin PL. (2006) Standardization of microarray and pharmacogenomics data. Methods Mol Biol (Jan), 316: 111-157.
- Ammenwerth E, Talmon J, Ash JS, Bates DW, Beuscart-Zéphir MC, Duhamel A, Elkin PL, Gardner RM, Geissbuhler A. (2006) Impact of CPOE on mortality rates--contradictory findings, important messages. Methods Inf Med (Jan), 45(6): 586-593.
- Brown SH, Elkin PL, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler D, Husser CS, Temesgen Z, Hardenbrook SP, Fielstein EM, Rosenbloom ST. (2006) SNOMED CT: utility for a general medical evaluation template. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (Jan)101-105.
- Carter JS, Brown SH, Bauer BA, Elkin PL, Erlbaum MS, Froehling DA, Lincoln MJ, Rosenbloom ST, Wahner-Roedler DL, Tuttle MS. (2006) Categorical information in pharmaceutical terminologies. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (Jan)116-120.
- Gangat N, Lin Y, Elkin PL. (2005) 68-year-old man with fatigue, fever, and weight loss. Mayo Clin Proc (Jul), 80(7): 939-942.
- Wahner-Roedler DL, Elkin PL, Vincent A, Thompson JM, Oh TH, Loehrer LL, Mandrekar JN, Bauer BA. (2005) Use of complementary and alternative medical therapies by patients referred to a fibromyalgia treatment program at a tertiary care center. Mayo Clin Proc (Jan), 80(1): 55-60.
- Buenz EJ, Schnepple DJ, Bauer BA, Elkin PL, Riddle JM, Motley TJ. (2004) Techniques: Bioprospecting historical herbal texts by hunting for new leads in old tomes. Trends Pharmacol Sci (Sep), 25(9): 494-498.
- Froehling DA, Elkin PL, Swensen SJ, Heit JA, Pankratz VS, Ryu JH. (2004) Sensitivity and specificity of the semiquantitative latex agglutination D-dimer assay for the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism as defined by computed tomographic angiography. Mayo Clin Proc (Feb), 79(2): 164-168.
- Penz JF, Brown SH, Carter JS, Elkin PL, Nguyen VN, Sims SA, Lincoln MJ. (2004) Evaluation of SNOMED coverage of Veterans Health Administration terms. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 107(Pt 1): 540-544.
- Brown SH, Elkin PL, Rosenbloom ST, Husser C, Bauer BA, Lincoln MJ, Carter J, Erlbaum M, Tuttle MS. (2004) VA National Drug File Reference Terminology: a cross-institutional content coverage study. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 107(Pt 1): 477-481.
- Elkin PL, Brown SH, Lincoln MJ, Hogarth M, Rector A. (2003) A formal representation for messages containing compositional expressions. Int J Med Inform (Sep), 71(2-3): 89-102.
- Rosenbloom ST, Awad J, Speroff T, Elkin PL, Rothman R, Spickard A, Peterson J, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler DL, Lee M, Gregg WM, Johnson KB, Jirjis J, Erlbaum MS, Carter JS, Lincoln MJ, Brown SH. (2003) Adequacy of representation of the National Drug File Reference Terminology Physiologic Effects reference hierarchy for commonly prescribed medications. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (Jan)569-578.
- Brown SH, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler DL, Elkin PL. (2003) Coverage of oncology drug indication concepts and compositional semantics by SNOMED-CT. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (Jan)115-119.
- Elkin PL, Brown SH, Lincoln MJ, Pittelkow M, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler D, Thomas R, Bergstrom L. (2003) Data representation in healthcare: a design for a freely-available openly-developed international reference terminology for healthcare. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 95: 427-432.
- Elkin PL. (2003) Primer on medical genomics part V: bioinformatics. Mayo Clin Proc (Jan), 78(1): 57-64.
- Elkin PL, Brown SH, Carter J, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler D, Bergstrom L, Pittelkow M, Rosse C. (2002) Guideline and quality indicators for development, purchase and use of controlled health vocabularies. Int J Med Inform (Dec), 68(1-3): 175-186.
- Elkin PL, Gorman PN. (2002) Continuing medical education and patient safety: an agenda for lifelong learning. J Am Med Inform Assoc (Nov), 9(6 Sup): 128-132.
- Elkin PL, Brown SH. (2002) Automated enhancement of description logic-defined terminologies to facilitate mapping to ICD9-CM. J Biomed Inform (Oct), 35(5-6): 281-288.
- Elkin PL, Sorensen B, De Palo D, Poland G, Bailey KR, Wood DL, LaRusso NF. (2002) Optimization of a research web environment for academic internal medicine faculty. J Am Med Inform Assoc (Sep), 9(5): 472-478.
- Bauer BA, Elkin PL, Erickson D, Klee GG, Brennan MD. (2002) Symptomatic hyperthyroidism in a patient taking the dietary supplement tiratricol. Mayo Clin Proc (Jun), 77(6): 587-590.
- Carter JS, Brown SH, Erlbaum MS, Gregg W, Elkin PL, Speroff T, Tuttle MS. (2002) Initializing the VA medication reference terminology using UMLS metathesaurus co-occurrences. Proc AMIA Symp (Jan)116-120.
- Elkin PL, Brown SH, Chute CG. (2001) Guideline for health informatics: controlled health vocabularies--vocabulary structure and high-level indicators. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 84(Pt 1): 191-195.
- Ruggieri AP, Elkin PL, Solbrig H, Chute CG. (2001) Expression of a domain ontology model in unified modeling language for the World Health Organization International classification of impairment, disability, and handicap, version 2. Proc AMIA Symp (Jan)573-577.
- Brown SH, Hardenbrook S, Herrick L, St Onge J, Bailey K, Elkin PL. (2001) Usability evaluation of the progress note construction set. Proc AMIA Symp (Jan)76-80.
- Elkin PL, Peleg M, Lacson R, Bernstam E, Tu S, Boxwala A, Greenes R, Shortliffe EH. (2000) Toward the standardization of electronic guidelines. MD Comput (Nov), 17(6): 39-44.
- Harris MR, Graves JR, Solbrig HR, Elkin PL, Chute CG. (2000) Embedded structures and representation of nursing knowledge. J Am Med Inform Assoc (Nov), 7(6): 539-549.
- Solbrig HR, Elkin PL, Ogren PV, Chute CG. (2000) A formal approach to integrating synonyms with a reference terminology. Proc AMIA Symp (Jan)814-818.
- Harris MR, Graves JR, Herrick LM, Elkin PL, Chute CG. (2000) The content coverage and organizational structure of terminologies: the example of postoperative pain. Proc AMIA Symp (Jan)335-339.
- Aviles RJ, Vlahakis SA, Elkin PL. (1999) Cyclophosphamide-associated uroepithelial toxicity. Ann Intern Med (Oct), 131(7): 549-549.
- Chute CG, Elkin PL, Sherertz DD, Tuttle MS. (1999) Desiderata for a clinical terminology server. Proc AMIA Symp (Jan)42-46.
- McKnight LK, Elkin PL, Ogren PV, Chute CG. (1999) Barriers to the clinical implementation of compositionality. Proc AMIA Symp (Jan)320-324.
- Tuttle MS, Olson NE, Keck KD, Cole WG, Erlbaum MS, Sherertz DD, Chute CG, Elkin PL, Atkin GE, Kaihoi BH, Safran C, Rind D, Law V. (1998) Metaphrase: an aid to the clinical conceptualization and formalization of patient problems in healthcare enterprises. Methods Inf Med (Nov), 37(4-5): 373-383.
- Denktas AE, Elkin PL. (1998) 75-year-old man with fever, weight loss, and diarrhea. Mayo Clin Proc (Oct), 73(10): 983-986.
- Nijhawan PK, Elkin PL. (1998) 59-year-old man with right hip pain. Mayo Clin Proc (Jun), 73(6): 541-544.
- Elkin PL, Tuttle M, Keck K, Campbell K, Atkin G, Chute CG. (1998) The role of compositionality in standardized problem list generation. Stud Health Technol Inform (Jan), 52 Pt: 660-664.
- Chute CG, Elkin PL. (1997) A clinically derived terminology: qualification to reduction. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp (Jan)570-574.
- Elkin PL, Mohr DN, Tuttle MS, Cole WG, Atkin GE, Keck K, Fisk TB, Kaihoi BH, Lee KE, Higgins MC, Suermondt HJ, Olson N, Claus PL, Carpenter PC, Chute CG. (1997) Standardized problem list generation, utilizing the Mayo canonical vocabulary embedded within the Unified Medical Language System. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp (Jan)500-504.
- Cimino JJ, Elkin PL, Barnett GO. (1992) As we may think: the concept space and medical hypertext. Comput Biomed Res (Jun), 25(3): 238-263.
- Belloni FL, Elkin PL, Giannotto B. (1985) The mechanism of adenosine release from hypoxic rat liver cells. Br J Pharmacol (Jun), 85(2): 441-446.