Bio Richard Platt, MD, MSc, is professor and chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine, and executive director of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He has extensive experience in developing systems and capabilities for using routinely collected electronic health information to support public health surveillance, medical product safety assessments, comparative effectiveness and outcomes research, and quality improvement programs. He also has led health system-based intervention studies. Dr. Platt led the development of the FDA’s Sentinel program, which performs post-marketing safety surveillance using the electronic health data from over 125 million people. He leads the NIH Pragmatic Clinical Trials Collaboratory's Distributed Research Network, and he co-leads a CDC Prevention Epicenter. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine's Leadership Consortium: Collaboration for a Value and Science Driven Learning Health System.