Voices of Healthcare · #29
Isaac Kohane
Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
As chair of Harvard DBMI he shapes the research agenda and talent pipeline for clinical AI and biomedical informatics.
Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, chairs the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He has spent decades building the academic infrastructure for using clinical data and computation in medicine.
Through DBMI and related initiatives, Kohane influences which research questions get funded attention and which trainees move into health system and industry roles. His public commentary on large language models in medicine is widely read by clinicians and researchers.
He is on this list for academic leadership and field-shaping influence.