October 27, 2000

The BITS (Biomedical Information Technology at Stanford) group is made up 
of faculty from the Schools of Medicine, Engineering and Humanities & 
Sciences that have met weekly for more than one year to organize activities 
that promote biomedical computation at Stanford  
http://bits.stanford.edu/ .  The mission of this group is to provide (1) shared 
computational infrastructure for biomedical applications, (2) design joint student 
and post-doctoral training programs (at all levels), and (3) facilitate collaborative 
research involving biomedical computation.   

With the recent success of efforts in these areas, the Deans, Provost and President 
have authorized this group to plan for an organizational umbrella that would provide 
continuity in the management and oversight of these programs.  Professors Russ Altman 
(Biomedical Informatics, altman@smi.stanford.edu) and Scott Delp (Biomechanical 
Engineering, delp@leland.Stanford.EDU) are leading this effort.



  - Russ Altman

Associate Professor of Medicine and Computer Science
Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Member of the BITS Faculty Group