He also directs the Stanford Center for Biomedical Computation. His primary research interests are in the application of computing technology to basic molecular biological problems of relevance to medicine. He holds an MD from Stanford Medical School and a PhD in medical information sciences from Stanford. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics. He is a past president and founding board member of the International Society for Computational Biology, an organizer of the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and an associate editor of Bioinformatics and Briefings in Bioinformatics. Contact him at the Dept. of Genetics, 300 Pasteur Dr., Stanford, CA 94305-5120; russ.altman@stanford.edu.