Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health AI
Leslie Lenert, MD, MS, FACMI, FACP is the founding director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health Artificial Intelligence (BMIHAI)at Rutgers Health.
He is graduate of the University of California, Riverside and the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. Trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine and in Clinical Pharmacology and in Medical Informatics at Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Lenert has held faculty posts at Stanford University, the University of California San Diego (UCSD), the University of Utah, the Medical University of South Carolina, and Rutgers Health. At UCSD, served as Director of the Health Services Research Unit at the San Diego VA Healthcare System and Associate Director (Health Informatics) at the Qualcomm Institute.
In 2007, Dr. Lenert became the founding Director of the National Center for Public Health Informatics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he led the agency’s efforts to meet public health information needs through improved linkages with the clinical care system.
At the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Dr. Lenert held various roles, including Associate Provost for Data Science and Informatics and Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine. At MUSC, he led efforts to integrate Translational Science with the Learning Health System through advanced data systems and optimize the Epic electronic health record system (EHR) using middleware. He also conducted NIH-funded work on improving screening for intimate partner violence in primary care using EHRs, data science for shared decision making, and mitigation of harm from opioid abuse through decision support.
At Rutgers, Dr. Lenert is leading a new Center, BMIHAI, focused on advancing health, science, and medical education through the application of artificial intelligence supported by informatics infrastructure. Dr. Lenert has published over 250 original articles and book chapters, is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians, and Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Married to Kate Lenert and the father of two grown children and two stepchildren, with four grandchildren, Dr. Lenert enjoys family time, sailing, hiking, and restoring homes.