Assistant Professor
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr. Kanjilal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and the Associate Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also an infectious diseases physician at the BWH and the course director of HST 040, Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis, at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Kanjilal's research interests focus on applying machine learning algorithms to observational and experimental data to improve the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases. Specific areas of work include the development of decision support tools built over machine learning prediction models that assist healthcare providers in a variety of tasks such as antibiotic treatments and diagnostic testing strategies. For this work, Dr. Kanjilal collaborates with scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
