Dr. James E. Andrews is a Professor of Information Science and Informatics atthe School of Information (iSchool), University of South Florida. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science from the University of Missouri Columbia, where he also earned a Master's in Library and Information Science. Dr. Andrews' doctoral work was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM) as a Predoctoral Medical Informatics Fellow. His research has focused on data standards and controlled terminologies in the context of a rare disease clinical research network, and in the areas of health communication and information behaviors, particularly in the context of cancer and genetics. Dr. Andrews has been funded by NIH, CDC, and AHRQ. He is co-editor of the first book on Clinical Research Informatics (Springer-Verlag), which is now in its third edition, has co-authored a number of peer-reviewed publications, and has presented nationally and internationally at numerous conferences. In addition to being aFellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA), he recentlyserved on the Board of Directors of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) and is active in other professional and academic organizations, including service on grant review panels and as a reviewer for several journals in health informatics and information science. He also served as Director of the iSchool for 12 years. Dr. Andrews is an honorably discharged veteran who served in the US Navy as an Intelligence Analyst on an Admiral's Staff and is recipient of the Navy Achievement Medal.