she is recognized for her development, translation to clinical practice and evaluation of the medlee medical language processing system. medlee is in daily use for clinical decision support at newyork–presbyterian hospital. she adapted and evaluated the medlee system to build biomolecular and genotype-phenotype networks (genies and biomedlee respectively). medlee and genies exemplify the translation to practice of the sub-language theory proposed by zellig harris that friedman pursued. in summary, she has been demonstrating the value of natural language processing for a broad range of clinical and biomedical applications that include decision support, automated encoding, vocabulary development, sub-language grammar applied to biomedicine, clinical research, outcomes analysis, error detection, and genomics research.