Russ B. Altman

russ altman

Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD

  • Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
  • Stanford Health Policy Associate

Shriram Center 
443 Via Ortega Room 209 
MC 4245 
Stanford, CA 94305-4145 

Assistant: Tiffany Murray Email: Tiffany.murray@stanford.edu 
Phone: (650) 725-0659

(650) 725-3394 (voice)
(650) 725-3863 (fax)

Biography

Russ Biagio Altman is a professor of bioengineering, genetics, & medicine (and of computer science, by courtesy) and past chairman of the Bioengineering Department at Stanford University. His primary research interests are in the application of computing and informatics technologies to problems relevant to medicine. He is particularly interested in methods for understanding drug action at molecular, cellular, organism and population levels.  His lab studies how human genetic variation impacts drug response (e.g. http://www.pharmgkb.org/). Other work focuses on the analysis of biological molecules to understand the action, interaction and adverse events of drugs (http://features.stanford.edu/).  Dr. Altman holds an A.B. from Harvard College, and M.D. from Stanford Medical School, and a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford. He received the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.  He is a past-President, founding board member, and a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), and a past-President of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (ASCPT).  He has chaired the Science Board advising the FDA Commissioner, and currently serves on the NIH Director’s Advisory Committee.   He is an organizer of the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (http://psb.stanford.edu/), and a founder of Personalis, Inc.  Dr. Altman is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Clinical Informatics. He received the Stanford Medical School graduate teaching award in 2000, and mentorship award in 2014.

publications

Journal Articles
September 2016

Predicting inpatient clinical order patterns with probabilistic topic models vs conventional order sets

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Journal Articles
December 2009

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing: failure is not an option.

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Journal Articles
December 2009

Improving structure-based function prediction using molecular dynamics.

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cover link Improving structure-based function prediction using molecular dynamics.