About me
Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, is the chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, whose mission is to develop methods and tools for a new generation of scientists and doctors to move biomedicine rapidly forward with the insight and precision offered by big data. He develops and applies computational techniques to address disease at multiple scales, from whole health care systems to functional genomics. He has worked on AI applications including pediatric growth monitoring, detection of domestic abuse, diagnosing autism and assisting clinicians using WGS and clinical histories to diagnose rare disease patients. He is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of NEJM AI and co-author of the book The AI Revolution in Medicine.
