Daniel R. Masys, M.D.

Director of Biomedical Informatics
Office of the Dean, School of Medicine
Director, UCSD Human Research Protections Program

Adjunct Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, Mailcode 0602
La Jolla, California 92093-0602

Telephone: 858-455-5050
Fax: 858-455-9540
Email: dmasys@ucsd.edu 

Dr. Daniel R. Masys is Director of Biomedical Informatics at the University of California , San Diego School of Medicine, Director of the UCSD Human Research Protections Program , and Adjunct Professor of Medicine. 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 . He served as Chief of the International Cancer Research Data Bank of the National Cancer Institute , National Institutes of Health , and from 1986 through 1994 was Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications , which is the computer research and development division of the National Library of Medicine .

Dr. Masys is an elected member of the Institue of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine in Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians , and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics . He is a founding associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , and has received numerous awards including the NIH Director's Award, Public Health Service Oustanding Service Medal, and the US Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal.

Dr. Masys' research interests are in the area of Internet-accessible health information, Internet utilities for conducting clinical research, and the analytical informatics of gene expression profiling using microarray technologies.