Eileen Koski

Biography

Eileen Koski is a Program Director for Health Data & Insights at IBM Thomas. J. Watson Research Center. She studied Biology and Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, receiving her M.Phil. degree in 1993. Prior to joining IBM she was with Columbia University (1978-1995), Quest Diagnostics (1995-2009), Medco/Express Scripts (2009-2013) and Northwell Health (2013-2015). Ms. Koski has worked in medical informatics throughout her career and has been responsible for a broad array of data-related initiatives spanning academic and commercial settings, including population health analytics; data mining; health data visualization and graphical laboratory report design; biosurveillance and pandemic preparedness; clinical trials; enterprise data governance programs; and representing the interests of both the laboratory industry and academic medical centers in numerous government initiatives, task forces, committees and panels as a recognized subject matter expert.Ms. Koski is currently Chair-Elect of the AMIA Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Working Group. Eileen Koski is a Program Director for Health Data & Insights at IBM Thomas. J. Watson Research Center. She studied Biology and Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, receiving her M.Phil. degree in 1993. Prior to joining IBM she was with Columbia University (1978-1995), Quest Diagnostics (1995-2009), Medco/Express Scripts (2009-2013) and Northwell Health (2013-2015). Ms. Koski has worked in medical informatics throughout her career and has been responsible for a broad array of data-related initiatives spanning academic and commercial settings, including population health analytics; data mining; health data visualization and graphical laboratory report design; biosurveillance and pandemic preparedness; clinical trials; enterprise data governance programs; and representing the interests of both the laboratory industry and academic medical centers in numerous government initiatives, task forces, committees and panels as a recognized subject matter expert.Ms. Koski is currently Chair-Elect of the AMIA Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Working Group.

Research Interest

Main research interests involve healthcare analytics; population health; data mining; data visualization and graphical representation of healthcare data; public health, particularly biosurveillance; and HIT standards.