Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics Isaac Kohane is the new head of the new Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He is pictured in Countway Library in the rare books collection, the original big data, at HMS. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

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Isaac Kohane, MD PhD

Chairman of the Board

Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School

Dr. Kohane is driven by the vision of what biomedical researchers could do to find new cures, provide new diagnoses and deliver the best care available if data could be converted more rapidly to knowledge and knowledge to practice. Dr. Kohane created DBMI at Harvard and was instrumental in the creation and support of the i2b2 platform and is the Foundation Board Chair.
Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE

Dr. Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Internal Medicine at UTHealth Houston

Elmer Bernstam has over 23 years of experience at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, where he serves as Associate Dean of Research at the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics. He leads the Biomedical Informatics effort at the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS), developing data systems like i2b2, focusing on translational research. His expertise spans translational biomedical informatics, information retrieval using graph algorithms for biomedical literature, and consumer health informatics, with multiple NIH and foundation-funded projects improving health information access for researchers and the public.

Susanne E. Churchill PhD, Executive Director, DBMI, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Churchill is executive director of DBMI, and the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Center of Excellence. Dr. Churchill also serves as the executive director of the N-GRID (neuropsychiatric genome-scale and RDoC-Individualized domains). She also serves at the Center of Excellence in Genome Science and program director for the Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics (SIBMI).

David Dimond, Chief Growth Officer, i2b2 tranSmart Foundation

Dave’s charter is to establish alliance partner collaborations to drive joint engineering, develop and commercialize of data intensive cloud-based platforms for healthcare. Dave was strategic advisor to healthcare startups and investment banks, co-founding WhatNext, social media for sharing patient experience with the American Cancer Society and philanthropic organizations.

Jomol Mathew, PhD

Associate Dean of Informatics and Information Technology and Chief of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Mathew’s research and academic service has been focused on development of enterprise wide, standards-based platforms for data integration, visualization, and analytics; frameworks for secure data exchange; informatics tools for precision medicine; electronic devices for remote data capture; and tools to improve patient engagement and point of care clinical trials recruitment using real time data.

Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE

Abu Mosa, PhD, MS, FAMIA

Vice Chair for Clinical Research Informatics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

He oversees the enhancement of informatics infrastructure, leveraging real-world observational data and large-scale healthcare networks to support the UAB research ecosystem.
Dr. Mosa is a visionary leader in biomedical informatics dedicated to integrating data-driven Artificial Intelligence (AI) with healthcare innovation. With over 12 years of leadership in academic healthcare, his work bridges the gap between computational science and clinical research to accelerate medical discovery. He is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA) and has been recognized for significant contributions to the field of informatics.

As a Principal Investigator he has led numerous extramural research grants funded by the NIH, PCORI, and AHRQ. Dr. Mosa also serves as a key leader in institutional participation for national frameworks like PCORnet, N3C, and TriNetX.

Shawn Murphy MD PhD

Dr. Murphy is the Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO) for the University of Washington (UW) Medicine IT Services

He also serves as Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education and Professor of Neurology at the UW School of Medicine, with a core faculty appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME). In addition, he is the Director of the Institute for Medical Data Science (IMDS) and informatics lead for the Institute for Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Data Science Core.

Dr. Murphy is a nationally recognized leader in biomedical and clinical research informatics with three decades of experience advancing research data infrastructure, tools, and analytics. Before joining UW, he was Chief Research Information Officer at Mass General Brigham and a Professor of Neurology, where he led innovations in research data platforms and large-scale clinical research support systems. He co-created i2b2.

At UW, Dr. Murphy’s focus spans enabling clinical and informatics research via advanced data science, AI, and large-scale computing, fostering collaborations across the research ecosystem, and strengthening the university’s capabilities in translational and clinical discovery.

Gil Omenn MD PhD, Professor, U Michigan

Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, & Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Omenn’s research focuses on cancer proteogenomics, splice isoforms, and prediction of functions of unannotated proteins. He is a leader of the global Human Proteome Project. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and past president of the AAAS.

Gloria "Gigi" Lipori
Gloria “Gigi” Pflugfelder Lipori, M.T., M.B.A., Senior Vice President and CIO for University of Florida Health

Adjunct professor in the UF College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy. In her role as CIO she oversees information technology and information services across the health colleges, UF Health Shands Hospital, UF Health Jacksonville, UF Health Central Florida and associated clinics. She previously served as UF Health’s chief data officer, setting strategy and direction for the enterprise’s integrated data repository and overseeing teams responsible for data warehousing, decision support, strategic planning and research support. She also has been a co-investigator on many federally funded research initiatives, including the OneFlorida Clinical Data Research Network.

Ulrich Sax PhD, Professor, U Göttingen

Vice head of the Department of Medical Informatics, University Medical Center. Long term experience in design, operation and validation of IT infrastructure for health care and translational research. He heads the Interoperability working group of the German Medical Informatics Initiative. Dr. Sax is active in the Technology and Method Platform for Networked Medical Research, including spokesman for the quality management working group.

Griffin Weber MD PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Department of Medicine, Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology (IMBIO), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Previously, Dr Weber was Chief Technology Officer at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr Weber was the original author of the i2b2 WebClient.