Dr. George Hripcsak, MD, MS, is Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor at Columbia University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics. He is a board-certified internist with degrees in chemistry, medicine, and biostatistics. Dr. Hripcsak is interested in the clinical information stored in electronic health records and their use in improving health care. Using causal inference, nonlinear time series analysis, machine learning, and knowledge engineering, he is developing the methods necessary to produce reliable medical evidence from the data. Dr. Hripcsak leads the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) coordinating center; OHDSI is an international network with thousands of collaborators from 83 countries and health records on almost one billion unique patients. Dr. Hripcsak is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American College of Medical Informatics, and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and he was awarded the American College of Medical Informatics 2022 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence. He chaired the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics from 2007 to 2022. He has over 500 publications.