The Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School has named Bill Geary to its advisory council. Geary joins a group of distinguished individuals and thought leaders charged with advising department chair Isaac Kohane as he scales up the research and education activities at Harvard Medical School’s newest academic department.

The Department of Biomedical Informatics was established in 2015 to propel a radical transformation in scientific discovery, clinical medicine and population health by harnessing the power of computation to generate new insights. The department seeks to develop the methods, tools and infrastructure required for a new generation of research investigators and health care providers to move biomedicine forward by taking full advantage of existing and emerging data resources.

Geary is a general partner and cofounder of Flare Capital Partners, a healthcare technology and digital health venture capital firm. Prior to that, Geary was with North Bridge Venture Partners since inception, a partner at Hambro International Equity Partners, and the chief financial officer of MathSoft, a science and engineering applications software start-up.

Geary holds an undergraduate degree from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and served as chair of the university’s Board of Trustees. Geary is a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions Board of Trustees. He was previously appointed by the Massachusetts governor to the oversight council of the Center for Health Information and Analysis. Additionally, Geary represents Flare Capital Partners on the Boards of Directors and is an investor in numerous healthcare technology and digital health companies.

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Harvard Medical School has more than 11,000 faculty working in 10 academic departments located at the School’s Boston campus or in hospital-based clinical departments at 15 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Hebrew SeniorLife, Joslin Diabetes Center, Judge Baker Children’s Center, Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, Mount Auburn Hospital, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network and VA Boston Healthcare System.