John D. Halamka, M.D., M.S.
President, Mayo Clinic Platform
John D. Halamka, M.D., M.S., president of the Mayo Clinic Platform,
brings together solution developers, data partners and healthcare
service providers to transform healthcare. Trained in emergency
medicine and medical informatics, Dr. Halamka has been developing
and implementing healthcare information strategy and policy for more
than 25 years.
Prior to his appointment at Mayo Clinic, he was chief information
officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he served
governments, academia and industry worldwide. As the International
Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr.
Halamka helped the George W. Bush administration, the Obama
administration and governments around the world plan their
healthcare information strategies.
Dr. Halamka completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford
University, earned his medical degree at the University of California,
San Francisco, and pursued graduate work in bioengineering at the
University of California, Berkeley. He completed his residency at
Harbor — UCLA Medical Center in the Department of Emergency
Medicine. He continues to practice emergency medicine and is
Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Michael D. Brennan, M.D.,
President’s Strategic Initiative Professor at Mayo Clinic College of
Medicine and Science.
Dr. Halamka has written 15 books and hundreds of articles. He was
elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020. He and his
wife run Unity Farm Sanctuary in Sherborn, Massachusetts, dedicated
to the lifetime care of ill, disabled, senior, orphaned and surrendered
farm animals.
