Director, Center for Comprehensive Informatics

Dr. Joel H. Saltz is Director of the Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Professor in the Departments of Pathology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University, Chief Medical Information Officer at Emory Healthcare, Adjunct Professor of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biomedical Informatics, and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar. Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Saltz was Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University (OSU) and Davis Endowed Chair of Cancer at OSU. He served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins Medical School, University of Maryland College Park and Yale University in departments of Pathology and Computer Science.   He received his MD and PhD (computer science) degrees at Duke University and is a board certified Clinical Pathologist trained at Johns Hopkins University.