Michael G. Kahn

Michael G. Kahn, MD, Phd is 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. He has been co-chair of the national NIH funded Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA) Informatics Key Function Committee, which represents the informatics core directors for all 62 CTSA grantees.

Dr. Kahn’s research interests include clinical data warehouses for both operational and retrospective research support, and translational research informatics for both T1 (bench to bedside) and T2 (bedside to community) translational settings. Most recently, his research interests have focused on data quality assessment in large-scale distributed national comparative effectiveness research networks. He participates in multiple national EHR-based research data sharing networks that employ a wide variety of data sharing technologies and approaches.

Dr. Kahn received undergraduate degrees in Biological Sciences and Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine; medical degree from the University of California, San Diego; and doctorate in Medical Information Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and a member of the inaugural class of diplomats with subspecialty certification in Clinical Informatics. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and an elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

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