Dr. Turchin is Director of Informatics Research at the Division of Endocrinology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Clinical Informatics at Baim Institute for Clinical Research. Dr. Turchin is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Medical Informatics). His research focuses on analysis of electronic medical record data; he uses advanced informatics technologies including natural language processing to study quality of care and outcomes in chronic endocrine diseases. Dr. Turchin is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and has published over 80 papers and book chapters; his research has been funded by AHRQ, NIH and private foundations.