The Rutgers Health Artificial Intelligence Virtual Seminar Series is designed to connect Rutgers faculty, staff, and students interested in AI training and research in health and medicine. The seminar series is co-sponsored by the NJMS Center for Data Science and IFH Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health AI.
This month’s seminar will be held on Thursday, December 11th, beginning with a virtual “meet and greet” at 5:30 pm, with the seminar starting at 6 pm.
BMIHAI: Year One and Beyond
Leslie Lenert, MD, MS, FACMI, FACP
Founding Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health Artificial Intelligence (BMIHAI)
Please register in advance to attend and for Zoom information: https://go.rutgers.edu/j07ruzju
Questions? Please reach out to Evan Johnson wj183@njms.rutgers.edu
Leslie Lenert, MD, MS, FACMI, FACP is the founding director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health Artificial Intelligence (BMIHAI) at Rutgers Health. In this talk, he will outline his vision for an AI-enabled Learning Health System for Rutgers—one built on “living laboratories” that bring together interdisciplinary teams around shared data and a unified technical platform.
Dr. Lenert is a graduate of UC Riverside and UCLA School of Medicine, and trained in Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern before completing fellowships in Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Informatics at Stanford. He has held faculty positions at Stanford, UC San Diego, the University of Utah, and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).
A national leader in public and population health informatics, Dr. Lenert served as the founding Director of the National Center for Public Health Informatics at the CDC, where he championed interoperability for public health systems. At MUSC, he served as Associate Provost for Data Science and Informatics and Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine, leading institutional initiatives integrating Translational Science with the Learning Health System. His work includes optimizing Epic for discovery, enabling large-scale genomic recruitment, and advancing NIH-funded research on intimate partner violence screening, shared decision making, and next-generation clinical decision support.
Dr. Lenert has authored over 250 publications, is a Fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians, and serves as an Associate Editor of JAMIA. He lives with his wife, Kate, and enjoys family time with their blended family, sailing, hiking, and restoring homes.