Foundation Board of Directors
The Board of Directors guides the strategic direction and governance of i2b2, ensuring scientific rigor, responsible data use, and sustainable growth. Its members represent leaders in biomedical informatics and clinical research.
Isaac Kohane, MD PhD
Chairman of the Board
Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
Dr. Kohane is 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. Dr. Kohane created DBMI at Harvard and was instrumental in the creation and support of the i2b2 platform and is the Foundation Board Chair.
Dr. Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE
Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Internal Medicine at UTHealth Houston
Elmer Bernstam has over 23 years of experience at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, where he serves as Associate Dean of Research at the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics. He leads the Biomedical Informatics effort at the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS), developing data systems like i2b2, focusing on translational research. His expertise spans translational biomedical informatics, information retrieval using graph algorithms for biomedical literature, and consumer health informatics, with multiple NIH and foundation-funded projects improving health information access for researchers and the public.
Susanne E. Churchill PhD
Executive Director, DBMI, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Churchill is executive director of DBMI, and the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Center of Excellence. Dr. Churchill also serves as the executive director of the N-GRID (neuropsychiatric genome-scale and RDoC-Individualized domains). She also serves at the Center of Excellence in Genome Science and program director for the Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics (SIBMI).
David Dimond
Chief Growth Officer, i2b2 tranSmart Foundation
Dave’s charter is to establish alliance partner collaborations to drive joint engineering, develop and commercialize of data intensive cloud-based platforms for healthcare. Dave was strategic advisor to healthcare startups and investment banks, co-founding WhatNext, social media for sharing patient experience with the American Cancer Society and philanthropic organizations.
Jomol Mathew, PhD
Associate Dean of Informatics and Information Technology and Chief of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Mathew’s research and academic service has been focused on development of enterprise wide, standards-based platforms for data integration, visualization, and analytics; frameworks for secure data exchange; informatics tools for precision medicine; electronic devices for remote data capture; and tools to improve patient engagement and point of care clinical trials recruitment using real time data.
Abu Mosa, PhD
Vice Chair for Clinical Research Informatics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
As a Principal Investigator he has led numerous extramural research grants funded by the NIH, PCORI, and AHRQ. Dr. Mosa also serves as a key leader in institutional participation for national frameworks like PCORnet, N3C, and TriNetX.
Shawn Murphy MD PhD
Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO) for the University of Washington (UW) Medicine IT Services
He also serves as Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education and Professor of Neurology at the UW School of Medicine, with a core faculty appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME). In addition, he is the Director of the Institute for Medical Data Science (IMDS) and informatics lead for the Institute for Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Data Science Core.
Dr. Murphy is a nationally recognized leader in biomedical and clinical research informatics with three decades of experience advancing research data infrastructure, tools, and analytics. Before joining UW, he was Chief Research Information Officer at Mass General Brigham and a Professor of Neurology, where he led innovations in research data platforms and large-scale clinical research support systems. He co-created i2b2.
At UW, Dr. Murphy’s focus spans enabling clinical and informatics research via advanced data science, AI, and large-scale computing, fostering collaborations across the research ecosystem, and strengthening the university’s capabilities in translational and clinical discovery.
Gil Omenn MD PhD
Professor, U Michigan
Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, & Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Omenn’s research focuses on cancer proteogenomics, splice isoforms, and prediction of functions of unannotated proteins. He is a leader of the global Human Proteome Project. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and past president of the AAAS.
Gloria “Gigi” Pflugfelder Lipori, M.T., M.B.A.
Senior Vice President and CIO for University of Florida Health
Adjunct professor in the UF College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy. In her role as CIO she oversees information technology and information services across the health colleges, UF Health Shands Hospital, UF Health Jacksonville, UF Health Central Florida and associated clinics. She previously served as UF Health’s chief data officer, setting strategy and direction for the enterprise’s integrated data repository and overseeing teams responsible for data warehousing, decision support, strategic planning and research support. She also has been a co-investigator on many federally funded research initiatives, including the OneFlorida Clinical Data Research Network.
Ulrich Sax PhD
Professor, U Göttingen
Vice head of the Department of Medical Informatics, University Medical Center. Long term experience in design, operation and validation of IT infrastructure for health care and translational research. He heads the Interoperability working group of the German Medical Informatics Initiative. Dr. Sax is active in the Technology and Method Platform for Networked Medical Research, including spokesman for the quality management working group.
Griffin Weber MD PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Department of Medicine, Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology (IMBIO), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Previously, Dr Weber was Chief Technology Officer at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr Weber was the original author of the i2b2 WebClient.