Michael J. Pencina

Michael J. Pencina is Duke Health’s chief data scientist and serves as vice dean for data science, director of Duke AI Health, and professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Duke University School of Medicine. His work bridges fields of data science, health care, and AI, and contributes to Duke’s national leadership in trustworthy health AI. Dr. Pencina partners with leaders to develop data science strategies for Duke Health that span and connect academic research and clinical care. He co-founded and co-leads the national Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), a multi-stakeholder effort whose mission is to develop “guidelines and guardrails” to drive high-quality health care by promoting adoption of credible, fair and transparent health AI systems. He serves in a leadership capacity for the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN), a new organization Duke co-founded with leading health care and technology organizations to develop tools and technologies that increase the safety, quality, and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence for patient care and research. Dr. Pencina is an internationally recognized authority in the evaluation of AI algorithms. Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics acknowledges him as one of the world’s “highly cited researchers” in clinical medicine and social sciences, with over 400 publications cited 120,000 times.