Dr. Jon D. Duke

Biography

Dr. Jon Duke is a practicing physician and Director of Health Analytics and Informatics at Georgia Tech. Dr. Duke graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He completed a National Library of Medicine fellowship in Medical Informatics and holds a master's in Human-Computer Interaction. He is also a former Fulbright Scholar to Japan and is fluent in Japanese. During the past 5 years, Dr. Jon Duke has directed over $21 million in real-world data research for industry and government sponsors. His ongoing focus is advancing techniques for identifying patients of interest from health care data (structured, unstructured, and patient-generated) with applications spanning research, quality, and clinical domains. He oversaw the Merck-Regenstrief Partnership in Healthcare Innovation and helped found OHDSI, an open-source international health data analytics collaborative with data on over 650 million patients in 14 countries. He has been awarded over $15 million in grants and contracts from sources including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and pharmaceutical and health IT industry partners. Dr. Duke's research has resulted in numerous academic publications and been featured in a variety of popular media such as the New York Times, Consumer Reports, and National Public Radio. In addition to dozens of peer-reviewed publications, his work has been featured in the lay media including the New York Times, NPR, Consumer Reports, Slate, and MSNBC. As an invited speaker nationally and internationally, Dr. Duke has sought to expand on strategies for capturing better health care data, streamlining insights for stakeholders, and delivering effective data-based interventions.

Research Interest

Health care