Eneida A. Mendonça

Who is Eneida A. Mendonça?

Eneida A. Mendonça,MD,PhD, Fellow ACMI, is a Brazilian-born physician-scientist and biomedical informatician. She pioneered the use of natural language processing in both the biomedical literature and in electronic medical record narratives in order to identify knowledge relevant to medical decision making in the context of the patient care. In addition, she has devoted many years to develop innovative clinical information systems that have been integrated in the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, the Columbia University Medical Center, and the Cornell Medical Center. Currently, Dr. Mendonça is a Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Mendonça has presented over 100 publications, invited lectures, and tutorials.