Jennifer Hall
Full Name
Dr. Jennifer Hall
Credentials
PhD
Job Title
Chief, Data Science
Company
American Heart Association
Speaker Bio
Dr. Hall serves as the Chief of Data Science at the American Heart Association (AHA) and holds an adjunct Professorship in the Dept of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Under her leadership the AHA established the AHA Precision Medicine Platform, which provides researchers with a web portal providing access to data and workspaces equipped with analysis tools. At the intersection of health, technology and science, Dr. Hall leads a highly diversified team of experts in data science, health research, metrics and evaluation, health technology and products. These powerful factors come together to drive new evolutions in science through the Association’s Precision Medicine Platform, a cloud-based technology solution that empowers the global medical research community to accelerate breakthroughs in cardiovascular and brain diseases. Dr. Hall also leads the Research Goes Red initiative, which calls on women throughout the U.S. to contribute to health research. Dr. Hall oversees a diversified research grant portfolio focused on funding impactful and groundbreaking areas of health research. Since 2013, the Institute has invested more than $35 million in 95 grant awardees ranging from collaborative teams of geneticists and engineers to data scientists and imaging experts.