Public Biography
Ken Mandl directs the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children's Hospital and is the Donald A.B. Lindberg Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He is trained as a pediatrician and pediatric emergency physician. Mandl is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and as part of its Leadership Consortium, co-chairs its Digital Health and AI Action Collaborative. He has had a sustained influence on the field of biomedical informatics, innovating in biosurveillance, federated data sharing, patient control of data, and healthcare interoperability. Dr. Mandl's advancements in 'SMART' programming interfaces, in conjunction with his influence on the 21st Century Cures Act, have streamlined universal access to individual and population health data. These capabilities enhance interoperability in healthcare systems and foster substantial economies of scale. He leads, across seven children’s hospitals, the Genomic Information Commons and directs the PrecisionLink Biobank for Health Discovery at Boston Children’s Hospital. Mandl also has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Society for Pediatric Research, American College of Medical Informatics and American Pediatric Society. He is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics and the Clifford A. Barger Award for top mentors at Harvard Medical School. He was advisor to two Directors of the U.S. CDC and chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIH’s National Library of Medicine.
Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Mandl received his Bachelors degree in Biology and Psychology from Brown, and MD and MPH degrees from Harvard. After a pediatric residency and fellowships in Medical Toxicology and primary care research, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics in the Harvard/MIT program. He joined the faculty at Harvard where he is now director of the Intelligent Health Laboratory in the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mandl made substantial contributions to the development of novel architectures and applications that enable patients to securely control access to their health information; these architectures have defined the platform model of personally controlled health records recently adopted by Dossia, Microsoft, and Google. Dr. Mandl was instrumental in development of the AEGIS biosurveillance system which incorporates graph theoretical approaches to cluster detection in biosurveillance, and HealthMap, which is a media-based surveillance system actively used by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the WHO. In recognition of this he was appointed Co-Director of CDC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics. Dr. Mandl and his group have published more than 70 refereed papers in the medical informatics, public health, and pediatrics literature advancing the use of information technology to support patient engagement in health, public health surveillance, and the use of data to guide clinical protocols and practice. His election to the College recognizes these academic and public service achievements.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2008