Lucila Ohno-Machado
Lucila Ohno-Machado
Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics and Data Science; Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics; Chair, Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale School of Medicine
Elected to the Academy in 2024

Education

University of São Paulo (Brazil), 1989, MD; Escola de Administração de São Paulo (Brazil), 1991, MBA; Stanford University, 1996, PhD, Medical Information Sciences and Computer Science

Professional Area(s)

Biomedical informatics research; innovative approaches at the intersection of engineering, technology, and medicine to address inequality in health care and research; building new algorithms and tools; leadership at the nexus of artificial intelligence in medicine

Citation

Enabling broader sharing of clinical data and creating algorithms that allow sharing access to clinical data while respecting the privacy of individuals and institutions. Creating new biomedical informatics academic units at public and private institutions and developing tailored curricula and new training programs.