Harlan Krumholz is a cardiologist and the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine and the founder and Director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). He is a leading outcomes researcher and has published >1500 scientific articles, has an h-index >220, and is one of the most highly cited medical researchers. Dr. Krumholz pioneered strategies to measure and improve healthcare quality, outcomes, and health equity; promote open science and transform research processes; support patient empowerment; and apply digital technologies and computational approaches to accelerate progress in clinical care and research. He is a Distinguished Scientist of the American Heart Association and a member of the National Academy of Medicine, served as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and was a founding Governor of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and was the Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale. Dr. Krumholz co-founded the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project, Hugo Health (patient-centric platform to enable a consumer-mediated health information exchange), Refactor Health, (healthcare AI-augmented data insight company), and medRxiv (non-profit preprint server for the medical and health sciences). He was awarded the Chinese Government’s Friendship Award for building transformative research platforms in China, their highest award for foreign experts. He was also named by the Chinese Cardiology Society as one of the few foreign cardiologists who have contributed the most to cardiovascular health in China. He was the founding Editor of Circulation: Quality of Care and Outcomes. He is the co-editor of the NEJM Group’s Journal Watch for Cardiology. He grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and graduated from Yale College, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently collaborating with Professor Akiko Iwasaki and her team to study long COVID, vaccine injury and associated illnesses.
