Gil Alterovitz PhD

Gil Alterovitz is a faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Center for Biomedical Informatics. He is Director of the Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory and core faculty member of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program. He is also affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-chair of the HL7 Clinical Genomics workgroup and on the Clinical Workgroup core executive group of the Global Alliance.

His research focuses on integrating genomics within healthcare settings as well as international collaborations involving genomics/clinical data integration. His work on integrative methods for “big data” in the biomedical informatics space has been published or presented in more than 30 peer-reviewed publications ranging from academic journals and international conferences to three books (including “Systems Bioinformatics: An Engineering Case-based Approach,” ranked #1 in new Amazon bioinformatics category). He is a faculty member of the Harvard curriculum committee for the Biomedical Informatics Masters and Bioinformatics PhD programs- where he and his upcoming book (under contract by MIT Press) have served a role in shaping the programs.