Researcher |Research Background
Ken Mandl directs theComputational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospitaland is the Donald A.B. Lindberg Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He is trained as a pediatrician and pediatric emergency physician.
His work at the intersection of population and individual health exerts a sustained influence on the developing field of biomedical informatics. He was a real time biosurveillance pioneer. Having long advocated for patient participation in producing and accessing data, Mandl was a designer of the first personal health and participatory surveillance systems.
Cognizant of electronic health record system limitations, Mandl was a developer ofSMARTon FHIR (substitutable apps running universally on health IT) for innovators to reach large markets and patients and doctors to access an “app store for health.” Through his influence on the 21st Century Cures Act, federal regulations require support for SMART interfaces, ensuring standardized access to individual and population data at system scale, “without special effort.”
He leads the federatedGenomic Information Commonsacross nine top children’s hospitals and directs the Boston Children’s HospitalPrecisionLink Biobank for Health Discovery.
Dr. Mandlhas been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, American Society for Clinical Investigation, Society for Pediatric Research, American College of Medical Informatics and American Pediatric Society. He is a recipient of the hePresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers,Donald A.B. Lindberg Awardfor Innovation in Informatics and theClifford A. Barger Awardfor top mentors at Harvard Medical School. His trainees lead informatics in academia and in the world’s largest technology companies.
He was advisor to two Directors of the CDC and chaired theBoard of Scientific Counselors of the NIH’s National Library of Medicine.
Dr. Mandl teaches and mentors extensively at the postgraduate level and leads an NIH-funded training program in biomedical informatics and genomics.