Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH
Director of Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital; Donald A.B. Lindberg Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Kenneth Mandl works at the intersection of population and individual health with a focus on biomedical informatics. He received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for pioneering real time biosurveillance, tracking infections, and detecting outbreaks with diverse data. Dr. Mandl developed SMART, a widely adopted, highly influential approach, to enabling substitutable iPhone-like apps that run universally on health IT systems. He most recently presented his work in a talk entitled “Building the App Store for Public Health: A Perfect Storm” at an Ariadne Labs’ Innovation meeting.