Isaac S. Kohane Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Director, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston

Isaac (Zak) Kohane is the director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kohane is leading multiple collaborations at Harvard Medical School and its hospital affiliates in the elucidation of regulatory networks of genes and the interaction between genotype and phenotype using a variety of bioinformatics techniques. Application domains he is currently involved in include tumorigenesis, neurodevelopment, neuro-endocrinology and transplantation biology. Dr. Kohane' research builds on his doctoral work in computer science on decision support and subsequent research in machine learning applied to biomedicine. Dr. Kohane has also led the development of cryptographic health identification systems and automated personal health records. He has published over 50 papers in biomedical informatics. 

Dr. Kohane has chaired several national meetings including the Spring Symposia on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Stanford University and the session on Linking Phenotype to Genotype at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. He is also a founder of the Center for Outcomes and Policy Research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, founder and Associate Director for the Center for Genetic Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a Fellow of the Society for Pediatric Research. He is Associate Editor for Bioinformatics for the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Associations. Dr. Kohane is also a practicing pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Hospital in Boston.