Alexander Turchin, MS, MD

Alexander Turchin is Director of Informatics Research at the Division of Endocrinology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focus is on studying advanced methods of real-world evidence data analytics, including natural language processing, causal inference and predictive modeling, and applying these methods to investigations of outcomes and treatment of patients with chronic cardiometabolic conditions. Dr. Turchin’s research group makes open-source natural language processing platform Canary (http://canary.bwh.harvard.edu/). Dr. Turchin is the Medical Lead for the Know Diabetes by Heart Initiative at the American Diabetes Association and a member of the Methods and Data Council at AcademyHealth. Dr. Turchin is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics; his research has led to over 130 papers and book chapters and has been funded by PCORI, AHRQ, NIH and private foundations.