Michael Kahn, M.D., Ph.D.

Member, Board of External Advisors of CHIBI
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Denver Co-Director of the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) Biomedical Informatics core director for the CCTSI Director of Clinical Informatics in the Department of Quality & Patient Safety at The Children’s Hospital

Dr. Kahn is Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver, Co-Director of the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI), Biomedical Informatics core director for the CCTSI and Director of Clinical Informatics in the Department of Quality & Patient Safety at The Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kahn holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine, School of Public Health, College of Nursing and Graduate School at the University of Colorado.

Dr. Kahn’s research interests include real-time clinical decision support linked to clinical outcomes monitoring, clinical data warehouses for both operational and retrospective research support, integration of electronic medical records with prospective research, and translational research informatics for both T1 (bench to bedside) and T2 (bedside to community) translational settings.

Prior to his current positions, Dr. Kahn was faculty in the Departments of Medicine, Computer Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Director of Advanced Clinical Systems at BJC Health Systems, and was in the commercial clinical trials software industry before returning to academics.

Dr. Kahn has been a member of the board of directors of the American Medical Informatics Association, the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Library of Medicine and the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and the International Journal of Medical Informatics. He is a member of the American College of Medical Informatics.

Dr. Kahn received a BS in Biological Sciences, a BA in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine and M.D. degree from the University of California, San Diego. He received training in internal medicine at St. Mary's Medical Center, an affiliate program of the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Kahn received a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco.

E-mail: Kahn.Michael@tchden.org