Neil Sarkar

Neil Sarkar, PhD, MLIS, FACMI, is a healthcare informatics leader serving as President and CEO of The Rhode Island Quality Institute and Associate Professor at Brown University. His dual appointment spans Medical Science and Health Services, Policy and Practice departments.

• Formal education: PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University (2004)
• Key affiliations: Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics, Brown Institute for Translational Science

Research focuses on biomedical informatics with applications to:

• Integrating unlinked biological and clinical data
• Comparative genomic/phenomic studies
• Predictive modeling for pregnancy complications
• Natural language processing in clinical contexts
• Translational bioinformatics solutions

Recent publications demonstrate expertise in:

• Machine learning for clinical outcomes
• Data mining in public health
• Phylogenetic approaches to disease analysis
• Health information exchange applications

Scientific recognition includes:

• Elected Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics
• Board Member and Treasurer of AMIA
• Founding Editor-in-Chief of JAMIA Open

Research grants from:

• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• US Department of Veterans Affairs
• Ellison Medical Foundation