Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, Children's Hospital Boston

Dr. Mandl is assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, affiliated faculty at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and has joint appointments at Children’s Hospital's Informatics Program and Emergency Medicine Division. He is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School's Center for Biomedical Informatics and at MIT's Center for Biomedical Innovation. Dr. Mandl is an expert on real time population health monitoring and has published several ground breaking journal articles in the field.  He co-directs one of two CDC Centers of Excellence in Public Health Informatics and has built and runs the MA syndromic surveillance system Dr. Mandl is developing advanced methods for the national Biosense system.  He received funding from the NIH and CDC to develop automated regional real time population health monitoring systems and information management tools to support patients, clinicians, hospitals, public health officials and researchers, under normal and disaster conditions.  He is now focusing these surveillance methods on the problem of post-marketing surveillance of efficacy and toxicity of pharmaceuticals. His work in this area recently earned him the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.