Katie Zhu is the Global Director of Real-World Evidence at Boston Scientific, where she leads collaborations with Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Quality, R&D, Health Economics and Market Access teams across therapeutic franchises. Her work focuses on leveraging real-world data (RWD) to generate actionable insights that inform clinical development, regulatory strategy, and healthcare value demonstration.
In addition to her clinical training, Katie holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University, supported by a U.S. National Library of Medicine fellowship. She also serves as an adjunct faculty in Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine.
Katie has held leadership roles across academia, industry, and government, applying RWD to advance biomedical innovation and inform strategic decision-making. She was the Inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Biomedical Data Science at Yale University and served on the External Advisory Board for the Center for Advanced Technology at Columbia University. Her prior positions include Physician Scientist Lead at the Center for Computational Health at IBM T.J. Watson Research Headquarters, Chief Medical Information Officer at Kforce Government Solutions, Associate Medical Director at Pfizer, and Clinical Project Manager at Philips. She also contributed to program organization and operations for the NIH Bridge2AI Consortium, Federal eHealth Exchange through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Digital Healthcare Research Program at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Katie is the recipient of multiple industry awards and co-author of 13 granted patents. Her editorial contributions include co-editing the Springer book Personal Health Informatics and the Elsevier book Digital Health, both of which explore the evolving role of RWD in personalized and digital care.
She currently chairs the International Medical Informatics Association’s Organizational and Social Issues in Healthcare Working Group and has served as Co-Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Global Health Informatics Working Group and Vice President of Membership for the Consumer and Pervasive Health Informatics Working Group. Katie has been elected to the fellowship of the American College of Medical Informatics, the American Medical Informatics Association, and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.
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