Jonathan H. Chen Honored at Lauds and Laurels Awards Ceremony
On October 10, 2024, the UC Irvine Alumni Association hosted the annual Lauds and Laurels Awards Ceremony and Dinner, honoring distinguished alumni who have made remarkable contributions to the university and the broader community.
Among the honorees this year was Jonathan H. Chen, who earned his Ph.D. from UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) in 2009 and his M.D. from UCI’s School of Medicine in 2011.
Chen is a physician-scientist with professional software development experience and graduate training in computer science. He continues to practice Internal Medicine for the concrete rewards of caring for real people and to inspire his research focused on mining clinical data sources to inform medical decision making.
Chen co-founded a company to translate his computer science graduate work into an expert system to solve organic chemistry problems, with applications from drug discovery to a practical education tool distributed to students across the world. To gain a first-hand perspective in tackling the greater societal problems in healthcare, he completed medical training in Internal Medicine and a VA Research Fellowship in Medical Informatics. He has published influential work in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, with research awards and recognition from the NIH Big Data 2 Knowledge initiative, National Library of Medicine, American Medical Informatics Association, Yearbook of Medical Informatics, and American College of Physicians, among others.
Chen’s group seeks to empower individuals with the collective experience of the many, combining human and artificial intelligence approaches to medicine that will deliver better care than what either can do alone.
