Biomedical Informatics
Over the last 30 years, Isaac Kohane’s research agenda has been driven by the vision of what biomedical researchers could do to find new cures, provide new diagnoses and deliver the best care available if data could be converted more rapidly to knowledge and knowledge to practice. In so doing, Kohane has designed and led multiple internationally adopted efforts to “instrument” the healthcare enterprise for discovery and to enable innovative decision-making tools to be applied to the point of care. At the same time, the new insights afforded by ’omic-scale molecular analyses have inspired him and his collaborators to work on re-characterizing and reclassifying diseases such as autism, rheumatoid arthritis and cancers. In many of these studies, the developmental trajectories of thousands of genes have been a powerful tool in unraveling complex diseases. Kohane currently leads three NIH-funded projects that cut across the entire agenda:
I am always on the look out for like-minded ‘quants’ who share the same goals to bring a better future for medicine and biomedical science to the present.
Clinical performance and quality health care, January 1, 1999
Annals of internal medicine, September 15, 1998
Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, January 1, 1998
Yearbook of medical informatics, January 1, 1998
The Journal of pediatrics, November 1, 1997
Annals of internal medicine, July 15, 1997
Health data management, July 1, 1997