Isaac Kohane, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Kohane is the director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and is the Henderson associate professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is also co-director of the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics and director of the HMS Countway Library of Medicine.

Dr. Kohane leads collaborations at Harvard Medical School and its hospital affiliates in the use of genomics and computer science to study cancer and the development of the brain, with emphasis on autism. He has developed several computer systems to allow multiple hospital systems to be used as "living laboratories" to study the genetic basis of disease while preserving patient privacy.

Dr. Kohane's research builds on his doctoral work in computer science on decision support and subsequent research in machine learning applied to biomedicine. He has led the development of cryptographic health identification systems, automated personal health records and peer-to-peer pathology information networks. Dr. Kohane leads several NIH-funded efforts to translate genomic research into clinical practice and continues his own practice in pediatric endocrinology at Children's Hospital Boston. He received his M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine and completed an internship, residency and fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston.