Nathan Cobb, MD is the chief medical information officer for MedStar Institute for Innovation, serves as the medical director of the Information Innovation Lab, and leads MedStar Health’s cross-disciplinary Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Cobb started his career as a software engineer and has worked across industry and academia, including as co-founder of multiple digital health companies. His long-standing research interests are in the use of digital interventions to deliver population impact, e.g., measurable change across large populations at low cost. He has been the recipient of multiple NIH grants to study digital health, social networks, and behavior change with the results in publications from the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Cobb serves as an attending physician in Critical Care at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and an assistant professor and researcher at Georgetown University where he teaches data science. He earned his medical degree from Boston University and completed his medical residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowships at Mass General Brigham in Boston. He is board certified in Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Clinical Informatics.