Dr. Homer Warner, M.D., PhD

One of the Fathers of Medical Informatics

A Morris Collen award recipient, Dr. Homer R. Warner, has pioneered many aspects of computer applications to medicine. He was the first chair of the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Utah, the first medical school in the U.S. to formally organize a degree in medical informatics. Author of the book, Computer-Assisted Medical Decision-Making, published in 1979, he also served as CIO for the U’s Health Sciences Center, as president of the American College of Medical Informatics (where an award has been created in his honor), and was actively involved with the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Warner served as director of the cardiovascular laboratory at LDS Hospital from 1954 to 1970 and was honored as Physician of the Year in 1985.

In 1988, he was elected to senior membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. New members are chosen for major contributions to health and medicine as well as from related fields.

For over 25 years, Dr. Warner has served almost continuously on research review groups for the National Institutes of Health, the National Center for Health Services Research and the National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Warner received his Bachelor’s and Medical Degree from the University of Utah and his PhD. in Physiology from the University of Minnesota. He and his wife, Katherine Romney, have six children.