title: Marco Ramoni: an appreciation of academic achievement.
abstract: We review the scholarly career of our colleague, Marco Ramoni, who died unexpectedly in the summer of 2010. His work mainly explored the development and application of Bayesian techniques to model clinical, public health, and bioinformatics questions. His contributions have led to improvements in our ability to model behavior that evolves in time, to explore systematic relationships among large sets of covariates, and to tease out the meaning of data on the role of genetic variation in the genesis of important diseases.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Isaac S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Kohane
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Szolovits
mesh_terms: D001499:Bayes Theorem; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000266:history*; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States