Melissa Haendel is the Director of the Center for Data to Health (CD2H) at Oregon Health & Science University, and the Director of Translational Data Science at Oregon State University. Dr. Haendel also co-founded the Monarch Initiative, an international consortium focused on integration of genotype-phenotype data to improve rare disease diagnosis and mechanism discovery. With a focus over the past decade on open science and semantic engineering, Dr. Haendel’s vision is to weave together healthcare systems, basic science research, and patient generated data through development of data integration technologies and innovative data capture strategies.
