We are pleased to announce the establishment of a new Division of Data Driven and Digital Medicine within the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Led by Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, the Division’s mission is to create a data science and digital health hub to catalyze translational research.
Recognizing that so much of what we do is driven by data, we are establishing this division as a critical step toward integrating data science and digital tools into clinical practice. Creating a hub within the Department of Medicine that promotes data science and digital health resources will augment and empower translational research and clinical care. Another priority for this new Division will be exposing medical students, residents, and fellows to the world of data science and digital health. The division will collaborate with many Icahn Mount Sinai entities, including the Mount Sinai Clinical Intelligence Center, the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, the Clinical Data Science team, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, the Scientific Computing and Data Science team, and others.
Dr. Nadkarni has demonstrated his passion for and skill with data-driven science, most recently as co-director of the Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Center. Along with Alexander Charney, MD, and a transdisciplinary group of collaborators, Dr. Nadkarni led data-driven efforts to understand and address COVID-19, which led to clinical trials that have had an impact on clinical care.
Dr. Nadkarni’s scientific interests beyond COVID-19 are reflected in his role as Principal Investigator on several projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and his authorship of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. Additionally, he is a named inventor on multiple patents. In 2018, Dr. Nadkarni was a scientific cofounder of RenalytixAI, an artificial intelligence-enabled in vitro diagnostics company that collaborates with Mount Sinai in seeking to improve chronic kidney disease detection, management, and treatment.
By creating the Division of Data Driven and Digital Medicine, the Department of Medicine now has one of the first data science and digital health divisions of Medicine in the country, putting us at the forefront of an emerging field. We are extremely proud that we are breaking new ground by its establishment.
Please congratulate Dr. Nadkarni on his leadership role in this initiative.
Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System
David C. Thomas, MD, MHPE, Acting Chair, Department of Medicine, Vice Chair of Education, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System