Co Director of Duke Forge, and Assistant Dean for Biomedical Informatics. First faculty recruit to a new initiative and new Division at Duke in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics. Principal Investigator on a NIH-funded project under the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) RFAs. Faculty lead for informatics on the Google Life Sciences-funded Baseline Study. Leading a Duke University School of Medicine-wide initiative for a Data Service for biomedical researchers. Leading projects on applied machine learning, user interfaces, and visualization of surgical outcomes (Clinical & Analytic Learning Platform for Surgical Outcomes, CALYPSO) and a chronic kidney disease "early warning" system.