November 4, 2025: HSI Lunch Seminar Series with Ken Mandl, MD, MPH

HSI Lunch Seminar Series with Ken Mandl, MD, MPH, Boston Children's Hospital (BCH), Director, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP)

MIT Sloan School of Management 100 Main Street E62-350 Cambridge, MA 02142, USA 

Monday, November 18th
Location: E62-350
Time: 11:30am - 1pm
RSVP at Sloan Groups *Open to All*

Lunch will be provided in person.

Ken Mandl is trained as a pediatrician and pediatric emergency physician.

Boston Children's Hospital (BCH)
Director, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP)

Professor Harvard Medical School
Chair in Biomedical Informatics and Population Health

His work at the intersection of population and individual health exerts a sustained influence on the developing field of biomedical informatics. He was a real time bio-surveillance pioneer. Having long advocated for patient participation in producing and accessing data, Mandl was a designer of the first personal health and participatory surveillance systems.

Cognizant of electronic health record system limitations, Mandl was a developer of SMART on FHIR (substitutable apps running universally on health IT) for innovators to reach large markets and patients and doctors to access an “app store for health.” Through his influence on the 21st Century Cures Act, federal regulations require support for SMART interfaces, ensuring standardized access to individual and population data at system scale, “without special effort.”

Dr. Mandl has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, American Society for Clinical Investigation, Society for Pediatric Research, American College of Medical Informatics and American Pediatric Society. He is a recipient of the he Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics and the Clifford A. Barger Award for top mentors at Harvard Medical School. His trainees lead informatics in academia and in the world’s largest technology companies.

He was advisor to two Directors of the CDC and chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIH’s National Library of Medicine.

Moderators:
Anne Quaadgras, Director, MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
Doug Williams, Product Lead, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship