David Margulies, Md

Biography

David Margulies is a physician executive and entrepreneur with career-long interests in computational biology and the neurosciences. In his 35-year career, David founded or co-founded six successful technology-based health system and health services companies and has served in senior executive or director roles for multiple public and private companies. He created the first clinical computing programs at both Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital, serving as BCH’s first Chief Information Officer in 1986-90. From BCH, David went to Cerner Corporation as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, also serving as a Director of Cerner. He co-founded CareInsite, now WebMD, serving in director and senior executive roles. In 2000, David co-founded Correlagen Diagnostics where he was CEO and Chairman. LabCorp acquired Correlagen in 2011 to be its National Center of Excellence for DNA Diagnostics. David was co-founder of Generation Health, subsequently acquired by CVS/Caremark. In 2011, he returned to Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is VP of Strategy and has been central to BCH’s strategy in genomic medicine. He co-founded and serves as Executive Chairman of Claritas Genomics, a for-profit affiliate of BCH. David is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Medical School, and board certified in Internal Medicine. He holds an appointment as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Bioinformatics and at BCH in the Division of Genetics. 

Research Interest

He is interested in drug discovery, proprietary stem cell and optogenetic technologies.