Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH

Dr. Mandl received his Bachelors degree in Biology and Psychology from Brown, and MD and MPH degrees from Harvard. After a pediatric residency and fellowships in Medical Toxicology and primary care research, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics in the Harvard/MIT program. He joined the faculty at Harvard where he is now director of the Intelligent Health Laboratory in the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mandl made substantial contributions to the development of novel architectures and applications that enable patients to securely control access to their health information; these architectures have defined the platform model of personally controlled health records recently adopted by Dossia, Microsoft, and Google. Dr. Mandl was instrumental in development of the AEGIS biosurveillance system which incorporates graph theoretical approaches to cluster detection in biosurveillance, and HealthMap, which is a media-based surveillance system actively used by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the WHO. In recognition of this he was appointed Co-Director of CDC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics. Dr. Mandl and his group have published more than 70 refereed papers in the medical informatics, public health, and pediatrics literature advancing the use of information technology to support patient engagement in health, public health surveillance, and the use of data to guide clinical protocols and practice. His election to the College recognizes these academic and public service achievements.