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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.
In 2016, Ivo D. Nelson, a notable health information technology entrepreneur, was accorded the first John P. Glaser Health Informatics Innovator Award (Glaser Award); Dr. David Westfall Bates, Harvard’s internationally renowned patient safety expert, was presented the Glaser Award in 2017; H. Stephen Lieber, former President & CEO of the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), received the 2018 Glaser Award; and Grahame Grieve, Founder of HL7 FHIR and FHIR Product Director at HL7 International, accepted the 2019 Glaser Award. In 2020, it was the Glaser Society’s intent to honor Clement “Clem” J. McDonald, MD, Chief Health Data Standards Officer of the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine; however, the pandemic and resultant UTHealth Houston policy prohibited any live events at the university throughout 2020 and 2021, as well as during the spring and summer of 2022. With the resumption of live events in the fall of 2022, we honored Dr. Clem McDonald with the 2022 Glaser Award, and Dr. Marion Jokl Ball, an international proponent of health informatics, received the 2023 Glaser Award. On October 25, 2024, we will honor Judy Faulkner, Founder and CEO of Epic, with the 2024 John P. Glaser Health Informatics Innovator Award.
Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan, is currently Emerita Professor at the School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the academic year 2024-2025, Dr. Brennan served as the University of Pennsylvania Provost Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow.
From 2016-2023 Dr. Brennan served as the director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NLM is a leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science research and the world’s largest biomedical library. Brennan’s leadership positioned it as a global scientific research library with visible and accessible pathways to research and information that is universally actionable, meaningful, understandable, and useful. This ensures that scientists, policymakers, clinicians, patients, and the public can access biomedical information when and where they need it.
While at NIH, Dr. Brennan co-led the development of Digital NIH, the NIH’s first long-range vision of the data platforms and information technology needed to support the NIH mission. She worked with NIH leadership to create a more robust and responsive IT governance and funding strategy. Additionally, Dr Brennan served on the National Science and Technology Committee’s Machine Learning and AI Subcommittee, a cross governmental body established to advise OSTP on AI Investments.
2024 - Judy Faulkner, Founder and CEO of Epic
2023 - Dr. Marion Jokl Ball, Executive Director and Founding Director of the Multi-Interprofessional
2022 - Dr. Clem McDonald, Chief Health Data Standards Officer of the NIH National Library of Medicine
2019 - Grahame Grieve, Founder of HL7 FHIR and FHIR Product Director at HL7 International
2018 - H. Stephen Lieber, Principal of Avisos Partners, LLC, and former President & CEO of HIMSS
2017 - Dr. David Westfall Bates, Harvard University
2016 - Ivo D. Nelson, CEO and Chairman, Next Wave Health
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: 08/26/2024