Leo Anthony Celi

Dr. Leo Anthony Celi is an internist, an intensivist, and an infectious disease specialist, who has practiced medicine in 3 continents, giving him broad perspectives in healthcare delivery. In addition, he pursued a master’s degree in biomedical informatics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a master’s degree in public health at Harvard University. As clinical research director and principal research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology (LCP), and as a practicing intensive care unit (ICU) physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Leo brings together clinicians and data scientists to support research using data routinely collected in the process of care. His group built and maintains the publicly-available Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC) database and the Philips-MIT eICU Collaborative Research Database, with more than 12,000 users from around the world. MIMIC-III has been cited more than 500 times since 2016. In addition, Leo is one of the course directors for HST.936 – global health informatics to improve quality of care, and HST.953 – collaborative data science in medicine, both at MIT. He is an editor of the textbook for each course, both released under an open access license. "Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records" has been downloaded close to 500,000 times, and has been translated to Mandarin and Spanish. Finally, Leo has spoken in more than 30 countries across 6 continents about the value of data science in improving health outcomes.

Specialties:

• Critical Care Medicine
• Infectious Diseases
• Internal Medicine
• Clinical Informatics
• Global Health Delivery
• Quality and Safety
• Outcome Studies
• Mobile Health Technology
• Clinical Data Mining
• Health Information Systems