Atul J. Butte, MD, PhD
Stanford Medical Informatics
Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Presentation Title
Taxonomizing Diseases: Exploring Genomic Nosologies Using Translational Bioinformatics (Summary of Presentation)

Atul Butte, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Medicine (Medical Informatics) and Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, 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 PhD 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 methodologies in translational bioinformatics. Dr. Butte has authored more than 25 publications in bioinformatics, medical informatics, and molecular diabetes and has delivered more than 35 presentations worldwide on bioinformatics, including nine at the National Institutes of Health or NIH-sponsored meetings. 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.

Dr. Butte's recent awards include the following:  the 2007 Genome Technology "Tomorrow's Principal Investigator" Award;  the 2006 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Award,; the 2006 PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Grant in Informatics;  the 2002 and 2003 American Association for Clinical Chemistry Outstanding Speaker Award; and the 2001 Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society Clinical Scholar Award. Dr. Butte's research is supported by grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the PhRMA Foundation, the National Library of Medicine, the National Institute for General Medical Science, and the National Human Genome Research Institute.