Public Biography
Dr. Marylyn D. Ritchie is the Vice Dean of Artificial Intelligence and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Ritchie is also the Edward Rose, MD and Elizabeth Kirk Rose, MD Professor of Genetics, Director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Director of the Division of Informatics in DBEI, Co-Director of the Penn Medicine BioBank, and Vice President of Research Informatics in the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Dr. Ritchie is an expert in translational bioinformatics, with a focus on developing, applying, and disseminating algorithms, methods, and tools integrating electronic health records (EHR) with genomics. Dr. Ritchie has over 20 years of experience in translational bioinformatics and has authored over 450 publications. Dr. Ritchie was appointed as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) in 2020. Dr. Ritchie was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
The mission of Dr. Ritchie’s lab is to improve our understanding of the underlying architecture of common, complex diseases. They develop and apply a breadth of translational bioinformatics approaches exploring the genome, the phenome, and the exposome. The approaches they take involve the development and application of new statistical, computational, machine learning, and AI methods with a focus on embracing complexity to uncover relationships between multiomics data, clinical data (mostly from electronic health records), environmental exposures, and social determinants of health.
The mission of Dr. Ritchie’s lab is to improve our understanding of the underlying architecture of common, complex diseases. They develop and apply a breadth of translational bioinformatics approaches exploring the genome, the phenome, and the exposome. The approaches they take involve the development and application of new statistical, computational, machine learning, and AI methods with a focus on embracing complexity to uncover relationships between multiomics data, clinical data (mostly from electronic health records), environmental exposures, and social determinants of health.
Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Marylyn Ritchie is a translational bioinformatician and pioneer in the integration and Computational analysis of genomics data and clinical data from EHRs. She published some of the first papers showing that genetic associations could be discovered and validated using EHR-derived phenotypes. She also co-invented the phenome-wide association study (PheWAS).
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
2020