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John P. Glaser, PhD, is an Executive-in-Residence at the Harvard Medical School Executive Education Program. Previously, he held the posts of Senior Vice President of Population Health, Cerner Corporation; Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Health Services; and Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare (now, Mass General Brigham). In addition, he was Founding Chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME); President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS); Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Digital Health, World Economic Forum; and Senior Advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). He serves on the boards of the Scottsdale Institute, Neu Health, Lumeon, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Wellsheet, Relatient, and the Student Conservation Association. Glaser has received numerous awards, including the John P. Glaser Health Informatics Innovator Award (established by McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics in 2015), the William B. Stead Thought Leadership Award (American Medical Informatics Association), and a Lifetime Achievement Award from CHIME. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota, and has written over 200 articles and three books on the strategic application of IT in health care. Glaser is on the faculty of McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics and the Harvard School of Public Health; he formerly served on the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
The John P. Glaser Health Informatics Society (Glaser Society) was initiated in 2015 by McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston in recognition of the expertise and leadership of John P. Glaser, PhD, who is a universally recognized thought leader in the field of health informatics. The Glaser Society was created to acknowledge outstanding innovators in the field of health informatics through the John P. Glaser Health Informatics Innovator Award. The attendant annual Glaser Society Proceedings and related events provide education, collaboration, and networking opportunities for the broader community of health informatics professionals, clinicians, and students.
David Blumenthal MD, MPP is Professor of Practice of Public Health and Health Policy at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is also Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School.
From 2013 - 2023, Dr. Blumenthal was president and CEO of the Commonwealth Fund, a health care philanthropy based in New York City with the mission of improving the functioning of the US health care system. From 2011 - 2013, he was Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Health System (now Mass General Brigham), where he led the implementation of the EPIC electronic health record system.
From 2009 - 2011 he was National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under President Obama, where he launched the implementation of the HITECH Act which resulted in the adoption of electronic health records by virtually all US physicians and hospitals. Prior to 2009, Dr. Blumenthal was a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Director of the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at MGH and Harvard.
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston is the largest biomedical informatics program in the nation, the sole program of its kind to exist as a free-standing school named by the transformational gift of a generous donor, and an international leader in Medical AI research and education. With 68 regular faculty, 65+ adjunct faculty, 140 research staff, 50 administrative staff, and more than 400 graduate students, McWilliams School has diverse course offerings across its three departments: Health Data Science and AI, Clinical and Health Informatics, and Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine. The mission of the school is to collect, process, and convert data—ranging from molecules to populations—into actionable information, knowledge, and intelligence; to educate current and future leaders, innovators, and problem-solvers across Texas, the nation, and the world; and to disrupt, transform, and innovate to elicit biomedical discoveries, improve healthcare delivery, and aid in disease prevention by conducting outstanding basic and applied research and developing impactful information technology products and solutions. McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics offers a unique collaborative research/learning environment focused on transdisciplinary programs—bringing together the engineering, computer, and biomedical sciences. True to its vision, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics is Transforming Data to Power Human Health™.
Last Update: 05/05/2026