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Obituary for my father, Russ J. Altman (1936-2021)

Background (with dates completed): 

Regis High School, NY (1979)
Harvard College, AB (1983)  
Stanford Program in Medicine Information Sciences, PhD (1989) 
Advisors: Bruce Buchanan, Computer Science
               Oleg Jardetzky, Stanford Magnetic Resonance Lab
Stanford Medical School, MD (1990)  
Stanford Affiliated Hospitals, Internal Medicine (1992)  
Stanford University, Department of Medicine   
Stanford University, Department of Genetics   
Stanford University, Department of Bioengineering  
 

Awards:

• 1991 Howard Hughes Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship  
• 1993 Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Medical Scholar
• 1996 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• 1997 IBM Faculty Scholar
• 1997 U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
• 1998 Stanford Hume Faculty Scholar  
• 1998 Western Society of Clinical Investigation, Annual Young Investigator Award
• 1998 Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics
• 1999 Fellow, American College of Physicians
• 2000 Stanford Medical School Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
• 2009 Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
• 2009 Member, National Academy of Medicine
• 2010 Fellow, International Society for Computational Biology
• 2014 Stanford Medical School Mentorship Award
• 2014 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2020 Stanford Biosciences Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
• 2020 Tau Beta Pi Teaching Honor Roll
• 2023 Stanford Medicine Alumni Kornberg-Berg Lifetime Achievement Award (Video Tribute)