Full Name
Sean Mooney
Job Title
Director of the Center for Information Technology
Company
NIH
Speaker Bio
Dr. Sean Mooney, Ph.D., serves as the Director of the NIH Center for Information Technology and the NIH Associate Director for Information Technology, Cyberinfrastructure and Cybersecurity (AD ITCC). As the Director of CIT, he is responsible for providing leadership, vision, and direction for CIT. This includes overseeing an approximately $400 million portfolio that includes a world-renowned supercomputer that allows researchers to conduct large-scale data analyses; a state-of-the-art network that enables research across NIH and around the world; cloud-based services that give researchers a cost-effective way to access datasets and advanced computational tools and services; and the latest collaboration tools to promote flexibility and productivity. As the Associate Director for ITCC, Dr. Mooney oversees the NIH Office of the Chief Information Officer, which is responsible for NIH enterprise IT strategy, policy, architecture and oversight. Before joining CIT, Dr. Mooney served as a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. He also served as Chief Research Information Officer of UW Medicine, Interim Director for the UW Institute for Medical Data Science, Associate Director of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center, and Director of Informatics for the UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences. A Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, Dr. Mooney holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco, a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and was an American Cancer Society John Peter Hoffman Fellow in the Department of Genetics and Stanford Medical Informatics at Stanford University.
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