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
Deven Atnoor PhD, Global Industry Specialist, Amazon
Building data integration platforms, applications and advanced analytics to solve problems in life-sciences and healthcare. Progressive experience in product development and management with focus on emerging technologies and datasets – Clinical, Financial and Omics. Creating and leading innovative solutions focused on answering burning questions in Drug discovery, disease diagnosis and Treatment, population and outcomes research.
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 Innovation Officer, Dell Technologies
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.
Andreas Kremer PhD, Co-Founder and CEO, ITTM
Over 20 years of experience in Pharma, Clinical Research and Diagnostics always focusing on data quality and interoperability aspects. ITTM (Information Technology for Translational Medicine) provides data integration and knowledge management solutions and services, especially data curation and harmonization incl. hosting of knowledge platforms and process optimization solutions.
Qi Li MD MBA, Physcian Executive, InterSystems
Innovator, entrepreneur, product management, research, and global business development. Leading innovation initiatives in product, technology, and market segment including life science, research, precision medicine, real world evidence, and AI. He led product development, strategy, and UK/China healthcare IT market entry. At Partners HealthCare, led the development of LMR, enterprise EMR solution, and grants. Passionate about translational research and disruptive technology.
Ken Mandl MD MPH, Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dr Mandl is Director, Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Donald A.B. Lindberg Professor of Pediatrics & Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Dr Mandl works at the intersection of population and individual health, where Mandl has been a pioneer of the first personally controlled health record systems, and co-developed SMART, a widely used technology to enable a health app to access digital health data and run anywhere in the health care system.
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.
Shawn Murphy MD PhD, Chief Research Information Officer, Partners HealthCare
Dr Murphy is also Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He has developed the initial Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR) for Partners HealthCare, a large data warehouse with 7 million patients and 3 billion rows. Dr. Murphy is the chief architect of the NIH Sponsored Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2).
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.
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.
Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga is the UMass Memorial Health Care Chair in Biomedical Research
Professor of Molecular Medicine, and Vice Provost for Clinical and Translational Research at the UMass Chan Medical School. Her research on viral and host factors that contribute to the persistence of viral infections has contributed to the development of prevention and treatment strategies for pediatric HIV-1 infection and informed global treatment guidelines and policies. In her current role as Director of the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Dr. Luzuriaga leads efforts to translate scientific discoveries into products and approaches that improve individual and population health.
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.