Public Biography
Jessie Tenenbaum, PhD, served as Chief Data Officer (CDO) for North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services 2019-2024. In this role, Dr. Tenenbaum was responsible for the development and oversight of departmental data governance and strategy to enable data-driven policy to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians. Dr. Tenenbaum is also a faculty member in Duke University's Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. Dr. Tenenbaum is passionate about data-driven decision making, addressing non-clinical drivers of health, mental health, data sharing, and ethical, legal, and social issues around big data in biomedicine. She is also a supporter and advocate for the next generation of women in STEM.
Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Jessica Tenenbaum joined the Duke Translational Medicine Institute in 2007 as an Informatics Project Leader and was promoted in 2008 to the role of Associate Director for Bioinformatics for the DTMI Biomedical Informatics Core (BIC). Her research focuses on infrastructure and standards to enable research collaboration and integrative data analysis. Other research interests include genomics, biomarkers, personalized medicine, systems biology, and computer-human interaction. Along with coordinating informatics activities related to the MURDOCK Study, the BIC, and the informatics community around Duke, Dr. Tenenbaum is also the Principal Investigator for the MURDOCK Integrated Data Repository (MIDR), a standards-compliant integrated data repository for clinical, omic, biobanking, and consent data as well as experimental and protocol metadata. She also contributes bioinformatics area expertise to the development of strategic partnerships for both the DTMI and the Biomarker Factory. At the national level, Dr. Tenenbaum is an active member of the CTSA Consortium. She served a two-year term as an elected member of the CTSA Informatics KFC Operations Committee, is founder and chair of the CTSA Omics Data Standards Working Group, and played a leadership role in the development of the Resource Discovery System. She was the Scientific Program Committee Chair for AMIA's 2013 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2016