Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD

Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, MBA, is the Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics and the Chair of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Yale School of Medicine. As Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics, Dr. Ohno-Machado oversees the infrastructure related to biomedical informatics research across the academic health system.

Previously, Dr. Ohno-Machado was health sciences associate dean for informatics and technology, founding chief of the Division of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Medicine, and distinguished professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). She also was founding chair of the UCSD Health Department of Biomedical Informatics and founding faculty of the UCSD Halicioğlu Data Science Institute in La Jolla, California. She received her medical degree from the University of São Paulo, Brazil; her MBA from the Escola de Administração de São Paulo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil; and her PhD in medical information sciences and computer science at Stanford University. She has led informatics centers that were funded by various NIH initiatives and by agencies such as AHRQ, PCORI, and NSF. Prior to joining UCSD, she was distinguished chair in biomedical informatics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and faculty at Harvard Medical School and at MIT’s Health Sciences and Technology Division. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Association of American Physicians, the American College of Medical Informatics, and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. She is a recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association leadership award, as well as the William W. Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics. She was the inaugural recipient of the Helen M. Ranney award from the Association of American Physicians.

Dr. Ohno-Machado organized the first large-scale initiative to share clinical data across five UC medical systems and later extended it to various institutions in California and around the country. Dr. Ohno-Machado has a long track record of building and evaluating predictive models together with clinicians and biomedical researchers, as well as developing new algorithms for privacy-protecting, federated learning across distributed datasets.