Yang Fann PhD

Dr. Yang Fann is the Director of IT and Bioinformatics Program overseeing the IT infrastructure support and developing biomedical informatics research programs at NINDS NIH. He is also a principal investigator for the Informatics Core of Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine working on building the informatics infrastructure for the National Traumatic Brian Injury (TBI) Study, a collaborative research program of the DoD and NIH.

Recently, Dr. Fann has taken on as the Director of Clinical Informatics for the National Institutes of Health’s Intramural Research Program (IRP). In this role, he has responsibility of addressing a wide range of clinical informatics challenges related to the clinical research program of NIH IRP.

Fann is currently leading a strategic planning initiative aiming to assess and develop a new vision for clinical informatics within the IRP. It will also focus on providing informatics solutions for the investigators that aim to reduce barriers for collaboration, simplify compliance, and enable data sharing through the implementation of a data ecosystem with interoperability with other relevant IRP-wide systems, such as e-IRB, CRIS, and IC clinical information systems.