Leadership
Members of the AI at VP&S Leadership team stand together during the kickoff event on Feb. 24, 2025. Photo by Rudy Diaz/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Noémie Elhadad, PhD
- Director of the AI at VP&S Initiative
- Research Workgroup Lead
- Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Timothy James Crimmins, MD
- Clinical Workgroup Lead
- Chief Medical Information Officer
Lauren Richter, MD, MA
- Training and Education Workgroup Lead
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics
Anhphan Ly
- Training and Education Workgroup Lead
- Senior Director, Center for Education, Research, Evaluation (CERE)
Todd A. Bates, PhD, MSEd, MA
- Training and Education Workgroup Lead
- Senior Director, Medical Education & Learning at CERE (Center for Education Research and Evaluation)
- Assistant Clinical Professor of Education Assessment (in Medicine)
Olajide A. Williams, MD, MS
- Community Workgroup Lead
- Professor and Chief of Staff of the Department of Neurology
- Vice Dean for Community Health, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Xuhai “Orson” Xu, PhD
- Community Workgroup Lead
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
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Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD
- Oversight and Governance Workgroup Lead
- Chief of the Division of Ethics and Professor of Medical Humanities of Ethics
Research Focuses: ethics, governance and policy of AI, genomics, precision medicine research
Wil McKoy
- Business Processes Workgroup Lead
- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Namita Azad, MS, MPH
- Business Processes Workgroup Lead
- Senior Director, Organizational Development-Transformation
