Dean for Precision Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Eric Schadt, Ph.D., is founder and CEO of Sema4, a health information company that is creating practical tools to help patients, clinicians, and researchers better diagnose, treat, and prevent disease. Dr. Schadt also serves as Dean for Precision Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He was previously Founding Director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences. Dr. Schadt is an expert on constructing predictive models of disease that link molecular biology to physiology to enable clinical medicine. Over the past 20 years, he has built groups and companies (Merck, Rosetta, Sage Bionetworks, Pacific Biosciences, Icahn Institute, and now Sema4) to elucidate the complexity of human diseases. He has published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals, and contributed to a number of discoveries relating to the genetic basis of common human diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and Alzheimer’s disease.