Speakers: Mark Hoffman, PhD
Mark Hoffman, PhD
Chief Research Information Officer
Children’s Mercy
Dr. Hoffman serves as the Chief Research Information officer for Children’s Mercy Hospital (CMH) and the Children’s Research Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and developed expertise in bioinformatics at DNAStar, where he implemented protein sequence analysis algorithms. He joined Cerner in 1997 as a software engineer and advanced to the role of Vice President for Genomics and Research. At Cerner he led pioneering initiatives to integrate genomic information into the Electronic Health Record and to perform local and national infectious disease surveillance. He provided technical, scientific and business leadership for the large 50M+ patient de-identified clinical data. In 2013 he joined the faculty at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) in the Departments of Biomedical and Health Informatics and Pediatrics. At UMKC he launched the Center for Health Insights and brought new informatics capabilities to the University. He joined CMH full time in 2016 as Chief Research Information Officer. He is a Primary Investigator on a collaborative NIH R01 with UMKC and the University of California Berkeley to use massive electronic health record data to investigate fungal disease epidemiology and also serves as co-lead of the Frontiers CTSA Informatics Core. Dr. Hoffman has delivered a TED talk on the “Envirome” and won the iThermometer category in the Google wearable devices in healthcare challenge in 2015. He is an inventor on 25 issued patents and was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2024.