Dr. Amy Y. Wang is Associate Professor of Medicine and Family and Community Medicine at the UAB School of Medicine. A board-certified family physician, she is one of the first physicians to become board certified in the new subspecialty of clinical informatics. Her areas of expertise include health terminologies and ontologies, health standards, electronic health records (EHRs), and informatics education. Prior to joining UAB, Dr. Wang was Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Faculty Director of Health Informatics Graduate Programs at Northwestern University. She has many years of experience in applied informatics in the private sector, focusing on improving the capture, exchange, and use of patient information through health terminologies and standards. As Director of Knowledge and Chief Medical Officer at Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO), she developed and implemented health terminologies for EHRs, helping health organizations standardize their documentation and transition to ICD-10-CM. She also developed and implemented clinical content for Greenway Health's EHR system. While at the College of American Pathologists (CAP), she served on the international team that designed and developed SNOMED CT, a comprehensive health terminology and international standard. She later served as a U.S. representative on the Content Committee of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO, now SNOMED International). She advised the international community on the content development of SNOMED CT, which is now used in over 30 countries. Dr. Wang teaches at Northwestern University as Adjunct Associate Professor and serves as Chair of the Continuing Professional Development Committee and a member of the Women in AMIA Career Advancement Committee for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
