Tim Clark

Tim Clark, PhD, is a researcher in biomedical informatics with over 24 years of experience in the field. He is Director of Informatics at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease; Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School; directs the MGH Biomedical Informatics Core; and co-directs the Data and Statistics Core at the Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center.

Dr. Clark is also a Founding Editorial Board member of the journal Briefings in Bioinformatics, and an Advisory Board member for the journal F1000 Research.

Before coming to Harvard, Tim was Vice President of Informatics at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, where his team built one of the first integrated bio- and chemi-informatics software platforms in the pharmaceutical industry. He began his career in life science informatics at the NCBI/NIH, where he led the database development team for NCBI GenBank.

Tim's core research group is based in the Neurology Research Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where it works in the areas of neuroinformatics, semantic web, and social computing.

Dr. Clark’s academic training is in Computer Science. He earned his M.S. at Johns Hopkins University; and his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester (UK) under Professor Carole Goble, with a dissertation on the sociotechnical architecture and computational semantics of biomedical communications.

Research Interests

alzheimer's disease; bioinformatics; biological ontologies; biomedical ontologies; computational biology; computational molecular biology; data mining; database management systems; databases; distributed databases; information dissemination; information storage and retrieval; internet; memory disorders

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) The University of Manchester
• Master of Science - MS The Johns Hopkins University

Companies

• Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and Data Science University of Virginia (2019)
• Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences University of Virginia (2018)
• Associate Professor University of Virginia (2018)
• Director, Biomedical Informatics Core Massachusetts General Hospital (2013)
• Director of Informatics MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (2004)
• Director of Informatics / Assistant Professor of Neurology MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease / Harvard Medical School (2004)
• Assistant Professor of Neurlogy Harvard Medical School (2013 — 2018)
• Assistant Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School (2013 — 2018)
• Founding Director of Research Programs Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University (2006 — 2007)