James Diao is an internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Berkowitz Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics.
His research applies computational and statistical tools across clinical epidemiology, machine learning, and image analysis, with first-author articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Nature Communications. Previously, James developed algorithms for molecular predictions from cancer pathology images at PathAI and investigated watch-based measures of cardiovascular fitness at Apple.
James earned his MD from the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, where he was a PD Soros Fellow, Forbes Under 30 Honoree, and the 22nd person to graduate summa cum laude from Harvard Medical School. He also graduated from the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar in Science Policy and from Yale College with degrees in Statistics & Data Science and Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry.
Following his medical and scientific training, James hopes to lead a research laboratory dedicated to the development and evaluation of clinical algorithms.