Department of Biomedical Informatics Columbia University
 



Pat Molholt, MLS, PhD

Associate Vice President
and Associate Dean
for Scholarly Resources

Director, CUMC Office of Education

Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
701 E. 168th St., Room 201
New York, NY 10032
(212) 305-3688
(212) 305-8388 fax
Molholt@columbia.edu 		General Summary

Investigation into knowledge structuring, in particular how inter-concept, non-hierarchic links are used, forms the basis of my research interests. The major focus of my work has been on the creation of a hierarchically structured thesaurus for the fields of art and architecture, modeled after the MeSH thesaurus of medical terminology. This work led to my dissertation on standardizing inter-concept relations in vocabularies that are used for information retrieval and in knowledge-based artificial intelligence systems.

The second area of activity is the integration of electronic information resources into the medical and dental school curricula. This work is conducted in collaboration with faculty from various disciplines and is intended to augment the classroom experience by shifting some of the learning from the classroom to the electronic environment. Much of this work is image-based. For examples of this work, please see http://cuMedLearn.org
Professional Activities

  • EDUCAUSE Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning 2003-2006
  • American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Executive Committee Education Working Group 2001-
  • Association of American Medical College (AAMC) GIR Survey Committee 2003-2006
  • Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Steering Committee Group on Information Resources 1999-
  • Internet2 Special Interest Group on Health Science Education 2005 -
  • Internet2 Program Planning Committee 2005 - 2007
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Internet Research (formerly Electronic Networking: Research, Application and Policies) 1991 -

Key Publications
  1. C. Imielinska, P. Molholt, Incorporating 3D Virtual Anatomy into the Medical Curriculum., CACM, (February 2005): 49-54

  2. Udupa, J.K., LeBlanc, V.R., Schmidt, H., Imielinska, C., Saha, P.K., Grevera, G.J., Zhuge, Y., Currie, L.M., Molholt, P., and Jin, Y. A Methodology for Evaluating Image Segmentation Algorithms” Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Technical Report No. MIPG286 (February 2002)

  3. Kronenberg, F., Molholt, P., Zeng, M.L. A Comprehensive Information Resource on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine: Toward an International Collaboration” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Vol. 7, (November 6, 2001): 723-729.

  4. Zeng, M.L., Kronenberg, F., Molholt, P., Toward a Conceptual Framework for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenges and Issues Knowledge Organization 28, No. 1, (2001): 27-40.

  5. Wacholder, N., J. Venuti, M. Krauthammer, P. Molholt. Accessing and Browsing A Collection of 3D Anatomical Images With A Navigational Ontology. Proceedings of the 11th Annual American Society for Information Science and Technology Classification Research Worskshop 2000: 75-85.

  6. Wacholder, N., C. Imielinska, J. Klavans, E. Soliz, P. Molholt. Semantic Relations in a Medical Digital Library.” Proceedings of the IEEE Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, (IEEE ADL 1998) Santa Barbara, CA., IEEE Press (1998): 290-298.

  7. C. Bean, P. Molholt, C. Imielinska, L. Laino-Pepper. Symbolic and Spatial Knowledge Model.” Proceedings of the Visible Human Project Conference,October 7&8, 1996. National Institutes of Health, edited by Richard A. Banvard and Michael J. Ackerman, CD-ROM Publication.

  8. *Molholt, P. "Standardization of Interconcept Links and Their Usage." Knowledge Organization and Change: Proceedings of the Fourth International ISKO Conference, Washington, D.C., July 15-18, 1996, edited by Rebecca Green, Index Verlag, 65-71, 1996.