Edmund Syed received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland-College Park. He joined the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications in 1989. Mr. Syed works on the Coach Expert Search Refinement System, and the Coach Metathesaurus Browser, along with Ms. Anna Harbourt, under the direction of Dr. Lawrence C. Kingsland, III, Chief of the Computer Science Branch of LHNCBC.
The Coach Expert Search Refinement System invokes the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus and other knowledge sources to help users of the Grateful Med front end program improve retrieval from MEDLINE. The Coach System works interactively with the user, with Grateful Med, with its knowledge sources and with ELHILL.