William Adams, MD
William Adams, MD is an epidemiologist, medical informatician, and practicing pediatrician at Boston Medical Center (BMC). He serves as Director of BU‑CTSI Clinical Research Informatics at Boston University and Director of Child Health Informatics in the Department of Pediatrics at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine/BMC. For more than two decades, Dr. Adams has focused on developing and evaluating information‑technology solutions to improve the quality of health and healthcare for children and families. His work centers on advancing child health electronic health records, patient‑centered technologies, and clinical data warehousing to support quality improvement and disparities research. He has extensive experience in software development—including programming BMC’s first EHR and leading multiple patient‑centered telephony initiatives—as well as in managing and leveraging large clinical datasets. Dr. Adams is committed to creating integrated, usable, and effective health information systems that strengthen pediatric care and research.
Sandy Aronson, ALM, MA
Samuel “Sandy” Aronson is the President, Chief AI Officer, and Co‑Founder of AIwithCare, a software platform that leverages generative AI to identify clinical trial eligibility and streamline patient screening.
Previously, Sandy served as the Executive Director of IT and AI Solutions for Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine and as Senior Director of IT for the organization’s Accelerator for Clinical Transformation. In these roles, he led teams that designed and deployed technologies advancing clinical genetics, remote health, and decentralized clinical trials. His teams also built foundational infrastructure supporting the growth of genetic‑based personalized medicine across both patient‑facing and laboratory environments, including developing generative AI tools for genetic variant assessment.
Sandy is the Founder of GeneInsight, an IT platform originating at Partners HealthCare; LearingAction, a web‑based training company later acquired by Best Software; and Stanford Data Solutions, a software consulting firm.
He holds an MA in Organizational Behavior and a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as a Master’s degree in Biology from Harvard Extension School
Monica Bharel, MD, MPH
Dr. Bharel, is a physician executive, internist, and public health innovator focused on using the power of data and analytics to drive innovation and equity in health. She is the Clinical Lead for Global Health, Public Health, and Public Sector Health at Google, based on the Google Health team. In this role, Dr. Bharel fosters collaboration and innovation across Google and the broader Global Health ecosystem through new data insights, AI tools, and research partnerships.
Dr. Bharel previously served as a Senior Advisor to the Mayor of Boston, leading an effort at the intersection of mental health, substance use disorder, and homelessness. Prior to that she served as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health from 2015-2021. As the Commonwealth’s chief physician she oversaw the state’s aggressive response to the opioid overdose crisis and was dedicated to reducing health disparities and developing data-driven, evidence-based solutions for keeping people healthy. Under her leadership the Commonwealth developed the first integrated Public Health Data Warehouse, Dr. Bharel led the Massachusetts public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
She is a board-certified internist who has practiced general internal medicine for more than 20 years in various settings. Prior to becoming Commissioner, she was Chief Medical Officer of Boston Health Care for the Homeless. She holds a masters of public health degree from the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health in health policy and management. She holds a medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital/Boston Medical Center.
Hossein Estiri, PhD
Hossein Estiri, PhD, is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a member of the research staff at the MGH Laboratory of Computer Science. He is a computational demographer, data scientist, and clinical research informaticist who applies a variety of data science methodologies—including geo-spatial and statistical learning techniques—to develop computational models that explain complex demographic, ecological, and health outcomes. His current work focuses on architecting visual analytics applications to explore data quality in electronic health records data and characterize patients using statistical learning techniques and data science methodologies.
Gloria “Gigi” Pflugfelder Lipori, MT, MBA
Serves as senior vice president and chief information officer for UF Health and is an 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 six health science colleges, ten hospitals and two faculty practices. Gigi also serves as a director on the Harvard-based i2b2
tranSMART Foundation Board.
Gigi’s 40+ year career at UF Health Shands began in the laboratory as a medical technologist and has spanned increasingly senior roles across clinical operations and enterprise leadership. As the organization’s former chief data officer, she established the strategy and infrastructure for UF Health’s Integrated Data Repository, overseeing data warehousing, decision support, strategic planning, and research support—foundational work that continues to shape the organization’s data capabilities today.
As a champion of responsible AI adoption in healthcare, Gigi co-chairs the AI Governance Committee and leads the Digital Brain Initiative, a strategic effort to unify clinical, research, and operational data streams into an intelligent data ecosystem that enables enterprise-scale AI deployment and advanced analytics. Her work directly supports translational research in neuro-oncology and other clinical domains, bridging traditional clinical workflows and next-generation AI-driven research pipelines.
Gigi helped develop and validate a variety of nationally endorsed performance measures, serving as a co-investigator on several contracts with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She has been a co-investigator on many federally funded research initiatives, including the OneFlorida+ Clinical Data Research Network. Since its inception, she has been the principal investigator for the UF Health Integrated Data Repository, an NIH-recognized translational research platform that has supported thousands of researchers in developing and informing their research proposals. Gigi is
also one of the ten inventors listed on Patent US 12,014,832 B2, “Method and Apparatus for Prediction of Complications After Surgery,” recognizing the collaborative effort behind this innovation in AI-driven clinical risk prediction.
Marc Johnson
Marc Johnson is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology (MMI). Marc spent 25 years as a molecular virologist primarily focused on HIV replication before transitioning to wastewater surveillance at the beginning of the pandemic. The Johnson lab studies viral metagenomics through air and water sampling. A primary focus of the lab is to work with public health to develop tools for monitoring the presence of new and emerging pathogens through wastewater surveillance. Through their wastewater surveillance work, the lab also studies ‘cryptic lineages’, which are evolutionarily advanced viral lineages from individual with very long persistent infections that are detected from wastewater. In addition to wastewater, the lab collects air and wastewater samples from diverse sources to establish a more complete picture of the complete virome on earth.
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Diane Keogh
Diane was the Executive Director of the i2b2 Foundation prior to being named the Executive Director of the combine i2b2 tranSMART Foundation. Diane has extensive Healthcare IT experience including academic medical centers, community and specialty hospitals, provider networks, industry, and biomedical research with a major focus on developing scalable enterprise strategies and solutions.
Jeff Klann, PhD
Dr. Klann worked with i2b2 for ten years, developing a research agenda that uses i2b2 as a substrate for data analytics, multi-site research networks, software architecture, data standards, and interoperability. His recent appointment as the Director of i2b2 Core Platform Development will allow him to apply his personal experience in large-scale i2b2 projects to improve the core product. In this position, he hopes to engage the vibrant user community, increase the openness and visibility of the software, and to continue to make the core platform relevant to evolving users’ needs. Dr. Klann is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and in the Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory of Computer Science. He holds a BS and MEng in Computer Science from MIT and a PhD from Indiana University in Health Informatics. He completed an NLM Research Training Fellowship concurrently with his PhD.
Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD
Isaac “Zak” Kohane, MD, PhD, is the inaugural chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, whose mission is to develop the methods, tools, and infrastructure required for a new generation of scientists and care providers to move biomedicine rapidly forward by taking advantage of the insight and precision offered by big data. Kohane develops and applies computational techniques to address disease at multiple scales, from whole health care systems to the functional genomics of neurodevelopment. He also has worked on AI applications in medicine since the 1990’s, including automated ventilator control, pediatric growth monitoring, detection of domestic abuse, diagnosing autism from multimodal data and most recently assisting clinicians using whole genome sequence and clinical histories to diagnose rare or unknown disease patients. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American College of Medical Informatics. He is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of NEJM AI and co-author of a recent book “The AI Revolution in Medicine.”
Jomol Mathew, PhD
Dr. Mathew is the Principal Investigator of the REACH Program. She is also the associate dean for informatics and information technology, an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, and serves as the school’s chief of biomedical informatics, director of informatics for the University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and associate director of informatics for the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
As the associate dean for informatics and information technology, Dr. Mathew is responsible for the development and implementation of a strategic vision for enterprise data, informatics, and information technology activities in the school.
Dr. Mathew works to advance an unparalleled data ecosystem that enables the school and researchers to better collect, share, and analyze data from across the health system and university in pursuit of breakthroughs in precision medicine and research. She fosters strong partnerships with UW Health, UW–Madison’s Division of Information Technology, and scientists across campus and in the school, to provide innovative informatics and information technology solutions that meet the needs of researchers.
Michele Morris
Abu Mosa, PhD, MS, FAMIA
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 N. 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, an open-source clinical data integration platform now used by more than 300 institutions worldwide, and developed the Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR). His work has influenced standards in clinical data harmonization, privacy-preserving data sharing, and cohort discovery nationally and internationally.
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.
Griffin Weber, MD, PhD
Directs the Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) at BIDMC. A result of his research in expertise mining and social network analysis is his invention of an open source social networking website for scientists called Profiles RNS, now used at dozens of universities across the country. It automatically mines large datasets such as PubMed, NIH ExPORTER, and the U.S. patent database to discover investigators’ research areas and scientific networks. It then presents these connections using temporal, geospatial, and network visualizations. The software has numerous applications, ranging from finding individual collaborators and mentors to understanding the dynamics of an entire research community.
Weber is also an investigator on Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2), an NIH National Center for Biomedical Computing, for which he helped developed a web-based open source platform that enables a variety of functions, including queries of large clinical repositories for hypothesis testing and identification of patients for clinical trials. He also created the original prototype software for the Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE), which is a federated query tool that connects i2b2 databases across multiple institutions. More than 100 institutions worldwide use i2b2 and SHRINE to support clinical research.