The Johns Hopkins Individualized Health Initiative (Hopkins inHealth) aims to develop and implement novel methods and tools to intelligently use information to individualize wellness, early disease detection, and more effective and affordable treatment. It is a University-wide, collaborative venture that is both visionary and pragmatic. The initiative builds on dramatic advances over recent years in biological research, in new technologies that afford an increasingly detailed view of disease, and in computational and data sciences.

ICM is delighted that three members of our core faculty have been recruited to participate in the initiative and help advance its goals. Dr. Raimond Winslow, Raj and Neera Singh Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Director for the Institute for Computational Medicine is a member of the Hopkins inHealth Steering Committee, which will meet monthly to guide progress made by the Hopkins inHealth team, investigators, pilot projects, and cores. ICM faculty members Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Dr. Suchi Saria, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department in the Whiting School of Engineering and in Health Policy and Management in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, have also been called upon by the inHealth initiative for their respective expertise in the field of “individualized medicine”.