Ronald Cornet - brief overview
About me
Ronald Cornet holds a position as full professor in Medical Informatics, principal investigator and principal educator at the department of Medical Informatics in the Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Amsterdam UMC.He leads a research group on "reusable health data", in which research focuses on semantic interoperability, both from a technical perspective and from a users' point of view, as a key component to establishing FAIR data for healthcare and research. His research has resulted in over 100 journal publications and over 80 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. See the list of publications for a complete bibliography. Ronald has supervised 10 completed PhD-projects.
Ronald is involved in health care information standardization, among others as member of the Dutch, European (CEN) and global (ISO) standardization committees on health informatics. He is also involved in SNOMED International, which is responsible for maintenance and further development of SNOMED CT. He chairs the IMIA working group on Language and Meaning in Biomedicine, and participates in various international projects: European Joint Programme Rare Diseases (EJP-RD), CAPABLE, LEAPfROG, PaLaDIn, and C4C.
Ronald holds a Basic Teaching Qualification and is involved in both organization of education and in teaching at the University of Amsterdam. This teaching involves information modeling, knowledge representation and semantic interoperability in health care. He has supervised research work of over 50 students (at BSc and MSc level). He is a four-time awardee of the best-teacher price in the Medical Informatics curriculum at the University of Amsterdam.
My research activities:
April 2006 I obtained my doctorate degree, defending my PhD thesis entitled "Methods for Auditing Medical Terminological Systems".My research focuses on formal knowledge representation in medicine.
Areas of interest are:
- Constructing formal terminological systems
- Auditing formal terminological systems
- Description logics, most notably OWL
- Standardization and definitions, e.g., HL7
- Applying terminological systems
My educational activities:
I'm teaching in the Medical Informatics Program at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.We have a 3 years' Bachelors program and a 2 year's Masters' program.
See my education-related CV for details.