Harvard launches Department of Biomedical Informatics

Following a multiyear process of self-reflection and review, Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University, has announced the establishment of a new Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI). It will officially become a Quad-based department on July 1, 2015. Isaac “Zak” Kohane, co-director of the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics, director of the Countway Library of Medicine and the HMS Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, will be the department’s inaugural chair.

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