Leo
Anthony Celi has practiced medicine in three continents, giving him broad
perspectives in healthcare delivery. As clinical
research director and principal research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for
Computational Physiology (LCP),
and as an attending physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC),
he brings together clinicians and data scientists to support research using data routinely collected in the process of care. His group built and maintains the public-access Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC) database, which
holds clinical data from over 60,000 stays in BIDMC intensive care units (ICU). It
is an unparalleled research resource; over 5000 investigators from more than 70
countries have free access to the clinical data under a data use agreement. In
2016, LCP partnered with Philips eICU Research Institute to host the eICU
database with more than 2 million ICU patients admitted across the United
States.
Leo
also founded and co-directs Sana, a cross-disciplinary organization based at the Institute for Medical Engineering
and Science at MIT, whose objective is to leverage information technology to
improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. He is one of the
course directors for HST.936 – global
health informatics to improve quality of care, and HST.953
– collaborative data science in medicine, both at MIT. He
is an editor of the textbook for each course, both released under an open
access license. The textbook “Secondary Analysis
of Electronic Health Records” came out in
October 2016 and was downloaded more the 100,000 times in the first year of
publication. The massive open online course HST.936x
“Global Health Informatics to Improve Quality of Care” was
launched under edX in February 2017. Finally, Leo has spoken in 25 countries
about the value of data in improving health outcomes.
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