Bradley Malin, PhD

Dr. Malin received his Bachelors in Biological Sciences, Masters in Computer Science and Public Policy and Management, and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He may be thought of as a ëthird generationí ACMI fellow, as he was the first graduate student of Latanya Sweeney, whose 1997 AMIA Best Paper more or less launched the informatics subdiscipline of health data privacy. Dr. Sweeney was, in turn, a trainee under the mentorship of ACMI fellow Pete Szolivits at MIT. Dr. Malin joined the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in near record time based on a uniquely successful combination of investigator-initiated research, teaching in informatics and computer science, and public service at the highest levels of government. Dr. Malin received a prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and had the distinction of receiving two new, concurrent RO1ís from the same NIH study section on the same day. As director of Vanderbiltís Data Privacy Laboratory he has developed and published a growing set of software tools to assist healthcare organizations to understand and manage the data de-identification process to comply with regulatory mandates such as HIPAA for both business operations and research. He has been a pro-active consultant to the US Dept. of Health and Human Services on issues of data privacy and its implications for public policy. His election to the College recognizes these contributions to scholarship and public service in a new and important subdiscipline of informatics.