Chief Research Info Officer Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics Harvard Medical School

PhD University of Chicago 1989

MD University of Chicago 1991

biomedical research; data warehouses; electronic health records; forms and records control; informatics; information storage and retrieval; medical record linkage; medical records systems computerized; natural language processing; patient privacy; software

Shawn N. Murphy, MD, PhD, is the Chief Research Information Officer at Partners HealthCare and a Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He completed a fellowship in Medical Informatics at the Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory of Computer Science, where he currently serves as an Associate Director.

Dr. Murphy developed the Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR) for Partners HealthCare, a large data warehouse with 7 million patients and 3 billion rows of clinical data, serving as a central clinical data registry that brings clinical information to the fingertips of over 4,000 active researchers. Dr. Murphy is also the chief architect of the NIH Sponsored Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2), an open source project that integrates data from the hospital medical record and the bioinformatics community into a common software platform, with over 200 operating installations at hospitals worldwide.