John D. Halamka, M.D., M.S., is president of the Mayo Clinic Platform,a digital initiative that brings together solution developers, data partners and healthcare service providers to transform healthcare. Mayo ClinicPlatform tools and solutions reached 45 million people in 2023. Dr. Halamka is an emergency medicine physician, medical informatics expert and has been developing and implementing health care information strategy and policy for more than 40 years. Previously, he was executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center for Beth Israel Lahey Health, chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Halamka has written 15 books and hundreds of articles. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020. He and his wife run Unity Farm Sanctuary in Sherborn, Massachusetts, dedicated to the lifetime care of ill, disabled, senior, orphaned and surrendered farm animals.
