Jonathan H. Chen

Physician Data Scientist

Stanford, California, United States

About

Jonathan H. Chen MD, PhD leads a research group to empower individuals with the collective experience of the many, combining human and artificial intelligence approaches to deliver better care than either alone. Dr. Chen continues to practice medicine for the concrete rewards of caring for real people and to inspire this research focused on discovering and distributing the latent knowledge embedded in clinical data. Before his medical training, Chen co-founded a company to translate his Computer Science graduate work into an expert system for organic chemistry, with applications from drug discovery to an education tool for students around the world. His expertise is regularly featured in popular press outlets with over 100 publications in leading clinical and informatics venues and awards from the NIH, National Library of Medicine, American Medical Informatics Association, International Brotherhood of Magicians and more. In the face of ever escalating complexity in medicine, informatics solutions are the only credible approach to systematically address challenges in healthcare. Tapping into real-world clinical data like electronic medical records with machine learning and data analytics will reveal the community's latent knowledge in a reproducible form. By delivering this back to clinicians, patients, and healthcare systems as clinical decision support, he aims to uniquely close the loop on a continuously learning health system. My schedule is pandemonium and won't have the space for non-specific meeting requests. You could join our academic colloquia sessions if you would like to engage with a community for open discussion. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CyDIuldEBfY2PBgB6MP2Z26LLtcEBLObrC8-TxNdtls/edit

Experience

  • Stanford University School of Medicine (1 yr 6 mos)
    • Associate Professor
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Director for Medical Education in Artificial Intelligence
      Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Associate Professor
      Jul 2025 - Jul 2025 · 1 mo

  • Assistant Professor at Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
    Nov 2017 - Jul 2025 · 7 yrs 9 mos

  • Instructor, Department of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine
    Nov 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Fellow, Medical Informatics at Veteran Affairs / Stanford University
    Jul 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Internal Medicine Resident at Stanford University Medical Center
    2011 - 2014 · 3 yrs