Jose Leonardo V. Mejino Jr., MD
a.k.a. Onard
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
BS, General Science, College of Science, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines 1977
MD, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines 1981
Current position:
Project Director and Senior Scientist,
Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) Ontology
Structural Informatics Group,
Dept. of Biological Structure,
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, WA 98195
Previous Positions: Research Scientist 1, Cancer Research Group, Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, 1990-94 Research Scientist 2, Structural Informatics Group, Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, 1996-98 Research Scientist 3, Structural Informatics Group, Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, 1998-2001 Chief Ontology Officer, Knowledge Representation Group, Virtual Soldier Project, University of Washington School of Medicine 2003-2005 Visiting research scientist, National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO), Department of Philosophy, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and Research Foundation of the State of New York, March to May, 2006 Ontology consultant, Nervana, Bellevue, WA 2006
Post Graduate: Clinical intern, Makati Medical Center, Makati, Philippines, 1981-82 Rural Health Physician trainee, Majayjay Primary Health Center, Laguna, Philippines, 1982 Pre-resident, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perpetual Succor Hospital, Manila, Philippines, 1982-83 Senior post doctoral fellow, Cancer Research Lab, Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1984-90
Honors: Valedictorian, Class of 73, Santa Clara de Montefalco Parish School, Pasay City Full scholar, College of Science, University of Santo Tomas
Professional and Honorary Societies: UST Medical Alumni Association (USTMAA) Philippine Medical Association (PMA) American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
Research Interests: Cancer Research: 1983-1994 Cell production and cell differentiation in the immunohemopoietic system. Biomedical Informatics: 1996 to present Knowledge representation in anatomy (Protégé) Ontology framework for multidisciplinary biomedical domains Reference ontologies: Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) Ontology Common Anatomy Reference Ontology (CARO) Ontology of Physics in Biology Pathology Reference Ontology (PathRO) Application ontologies: Radiology lexicon (RadLex) Virtual Soldier Knowledge base (VSKB) Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) Multiple sclerosis (MS) Immunology NeuroImaging Head and neck radiation treatment planning Ontology view generation Biomedical simulations and computational models Development of anatomy ontology language format for the semantic web Computer-based applications for biomedical education, clinical practice and electronic health record On-line information resources and interfaces for anatomy Biomedical image segmentation and annotation
Invited presentations and talks: 1999 Role of Anatomy in Biomedical Informatics. Far Eastern UniversitySchool of Medicine, Manila, Philippines, August. 2001 An educational symposium: How do we teach anatomy to the computer? American Association of Clinical Anatomists, Nashville, TN, June. 2004 How do we associate FMA concepts with neoplasia? National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics, Bethesda, MD, March. 2004 Symbolic modeling of structural relationships in the Foundational Model of Anatomy. First International workshop on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation, Whistler Mountain, B.C. Canada, June. 2005 A Theory of Anatomical Boundary and its Implementation in the Foundational Model of Anatomy. Mapping the Human Body Workshop, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, April. 2005 Representation of Neuroanatomy in the Foundational Model of Anatomy. The Human Brain Project, NIH, Bethesda, MD, April. 2005 The Digital Anatomist Foundational Model of Anatomy. 8th International Protégé Conference, Madrid, Spain, July. 2005 Overview of OBO import and DataGenie tabs. 8th International Protégé Conference, Madrid, Spain, July. 2006 The Foundational Model of Anatomy: Ontology Building Block. Immunology Ontology Workshop, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation (DAIT), NIAID, Gaithersburg, MD, March. 2006 The Digital Human: the ultimate body double. UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Silver Jubilee 2006, Manila, Philippines, December. 2008 The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) Ontology: Framework for cellular and subcellular anatomy NCBO Workshop on Ontologies of Cellular Networks, Newark, New Jersy, March 27-28.
Service:
Professional:
Consultant Visible Embryo Project, Oregon Health Sciences University 1999 Dental School Informatics, University of Washington 1999-2005 Craniofacial Malformation Research, Children’s Orthopedic Hospital 2002 MedOrder Inc. 2003 Nervana, Inc. 2006 venLogic Inc. 2007 Participant Kaiser Permanente terminology/ontology workshop, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1999 Digital Human Project, Federation of American Scientists, 2002-2004 SAEL-SOFG Anatomy Resource, 2004 Terminologia Anatomica Working Group, Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology (FICAT), 2005-present Neuroanatomy ontology workshop, Human Brain Project, NIH, 2006 American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) Listserve, 2006 Image ontology workshop, NCBO, Stanford University, 2006 Immunology ontology workshop, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation (DAIT), NIAID, 2006 Advance team, Anatomy ontology workshop, NCBO, University of Washington, 2006 Ontology workshop, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Bethesda, MD, 2007 Workshop on Ontology Evaluation, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, 2007 Scientific Committee Member National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) State University of New York at Buffalo Stanford Univeristy Knowledge Representation in Medicine (KR-MED) AMIA Working Group
Referree/Reviewer Journal publications: The New Anatomist, A section of The Anatomical Record Journal BioMed Central (BMC) Bioinfomatics Journal Frontiers in Neuroinformatics Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) Grant reviews: Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP), National Institute of Health (NIH
Extracurricular: Volunteer physician, Makati Medical Center Outreach Program, Manila, Philippines, 1981-82 Volunteer, Filipino Youth Activities (FYA), Seattle, 1983-2004 Volunteer coach, Basketball, Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), Elementary and Junior High, 1987-92 Member, School Commission, St. Pius X School, Mountlake Terrace, 1994-96 Vice-president, School Commission, St. Pius X School, Mountlake Terrace, 1996-97 Member, School Board, Catholic Schools of Archdiocese of Seattle, 1998-2001 Member, Human Sexuality Task Force, Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle, 2000.
1. Mejino JLV, Martin RF, Detwiler LT, and Brinkley JF. Challenges in reconciling different views of neuronanatomy in a reference ontology of anatomy. Proc. AMIA Symp. 2007.
2. Detwiler LT, Mejino JLV, Rosse C, Brinkley JF. 2003. Efficient Web-based Navigation of the Foundational Model of Anatomy. Proc AMIA Symp. p.829.
3. Martin RF, Rickard KL, Mejino JLV Jr, Agoncillo AV, Brinkley JF, Rosse C. 2003. The Evolving Neuroanatomical Component of the Foundational Model of Anatomy. Proc AMIA Symp. p.438.
4. Agoncillo AV, Mejino JLV, Rickard KL, Detwiler LT, Rosse CR. 2003. Proposed Classification of Cells in the Foundational Model of Anatomy. Proc AMIA Symp. p775.
5. Mejino JLV, Rosse C. 2001. Anatomical relationships in the Foundational Model of anatomy. Clin Anat. 14:460p.
6. Agoncillo AV, Mejino JLV, Rosse C. 2001. Correlation of the Foundational Model with traditional sources of anatomical knowledge. Clin Anat. 14:453p.
7. Rosse C, Mejino JLV. 2001. The Foundational Model of anatomy. Clin Anat. 14:463p.
8. Martin RF, Mejino JLV Jr, Bowden DM, Brinkley JF, Rosse C. 2001. A next-generation knowledge source: foundational model of neuroanatomy. Soc.Neurosci. Abstr., Vol. 27, Program No. 23.48p.
9. Mejino JLV, Noy NF, Musen M, Rosse C. 2001. Representation of structural relationships in the Foundational Model of anatomy. JAMIA Symposium Supplement. '01:937p.
10. Rosse C, Mejino JLV, Shapiro LG, Brinkley JF. 2000. Visible Human, Know Thyself: The Digital Anatomist Structural Abstraction. In: The Third Visible Human Project Conference Proceedings. Bethesda: NLM; 85-86.
11. Brinkley JF, Albright EM, Kim S, Mejino JLV, Shapiro LG, Rosse C. 2000. Visible Human, Construct Thyself: The Digital Anatomist Dynamic Scene Generator. In: The Third Visible Human Project Conference Proceedings. Bethesda: NLM, 27-28.
12. Rosse, C., Mejino, J.L. and Brinkley, J.F. 1997. The Digital Anatomist Symbolic Knowledge Base: an approach toward standards in anatomical knowledge representation. J. Am. Med. Informatics Assoc.
13. Rosse, C., J. L. V. Mejino, Jr. 1990 Thymic regeneration following corticosteroid-induced involution effected by intrathymic T cell progenitors. Exp. Hematol. 18: 585.
14. Mejino Jr., J. L. V. and C. Rosse 1990 Thymocyte lineages derived from hematogenous and intrinsic progenitors. Exp. Hematol. 18: 587