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Atul Butte
M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
Biography
Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Medicine (Medical Informatics) and Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist. Dr. Butte received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Brown University in 1991, and worked in several stints as a software engineer at Apple Computer (on the System 7 team) and Microsoft Corporation (on the Excel team). He graduated from the Brown University School of Medicine in 1995, during which he worked as a research fellow at NIDDK through the Howard Hughes/NIH Research Scholars Program. He completed his residency in Pediatrics and Fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology in 2001, both at Children's Hospital, Boston. Dr. Butte received a Ph.D. in Health Sciences and Technology from the Medical Engineering / Medical Physics Program in the Division of Health Sciences and Technology, at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Butte's laboratory focuses on solving problems relevant to genomic medicine by developing new biomedical-informatics methodologies in integrative biology. Dr. Butte has authored more than 25 publications in bioinformatics, medical informatics, and molecular diabetes and has delivered more than 30 presentations world-wide on bioinformatics, including nine at the National Institutes of Health or NIH-sponsored meetings. Dr. Butte's recent awards include the 2006 PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Grant, the 2003 Emory University School of Medicine Pathology Residents' Choice Award, the 2002 and 2003 American Association for Clinical Chemistry Outstanding Speaker Award, the 2002 Endocrine Society Travel Award based on presentation merit, the 2001 American Association for Cancer Research Scholar-In-Training Award and the 2001 Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society Clinical Scholar Award. Dr. Butte's research is supported by grants from NIDDK and NLM. Along with Isaac Kohane and Alvin Kho, Dr. Butte has co-authored one of the first books on microarray analysis titled "Microarrays for an Integrative Genomics" published by MIT Press.
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homepage: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Atul_Butte/
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