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Michael J. Pencina, PhD

Duke Health, chief data scientist

Michael J. Pencina, PhD, is Duke Health’s chief data scientist and serves as vice dean for data science, director of Duke AI Health, and professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Pencina is an internationally recognized authority in the evaluation of AI algorithms. Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics acknowledges Dr. Pencina as one of the world’s “highly cited researchers” in clinical medicine and social sciences, with over 400 publications cited 135,000 times.