Marylyn Ritchie, PhD

Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD is the Vice Dean of Artificial Intelligence and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Ritchie is also the Edward Rose, MD and Elizabeth Kirk Rose, MD Professor of Genetics, the Director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, the Director of the Division of Informatics in DBEI, the Co-Director of the Penn Medicine BioBank, and the Vice President of Research Informatics in the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Dr. Ritchie is an expert in translational bioinformatics, with a focus on developing, applying, and disseminating algorithms, methods, and tools integrating electronic health records (EHR) with genomics. Dr. Ritchie has over 20 years of experience in translational bioinformatics and has authored over 400 publications. Dr. Ritchie was appointed as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) in 2020. Dr. Ritchie was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.