John Holmes, PhD

John H. Holmes, PhD, is a Professor of Medical Informatics in Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is the Associate Director of the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics and is Past-Chair of the Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Holmes has been recognized nationally and internationally for his work on developing and applying new artificial intelligence approaches to mining epidemiologic surveillance data, as well as his efforts at furthering educational initiatives in clinical research. Dr. Holmes’ research interests are focused on the intersection of medical informatics and clinical research, specifically evolutionary computation and machine learning approaches to knowledge discovery in clinical databases. His research interests also focus on deep electronic phenotyping, interoperable information systems infrastructures for epidemiologic surveillance, and their application to a broad array of clinical domains, including cardiology and pulmonary medicine. Dr. Holmes has been a principal or co-investigator on projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and various foundations. Dr. Holmes is engaged with the Botswana-UPenn Partnership, assisting in building informatics education and epidemiologic research capacity in Botswana. Dr. Holmes is an elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American College of Epidemiology (ACE), and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).