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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. 
PUBLICATIONS
ABSTRACTS

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