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Biography

Dr. Taha Kass-Hout is Director of Machine Learning and Chief Medical Officer at Amazon Web Services, where he leads Health AI strategy and efforts, including, Amazon Comprehend Medical and Amazon HealthLake. Taha is also working with teams at Amazon responsible for developing the science, technology, and scale for COVID-19 lab testing. A physician executive and bio-statistician, Taha served two terms under President Obama, including the first Chief Health Informatics officer at the FDA. During this time as a public servant, he pioneered the use of emerging technologies and cloud (CDC’s electronic disease surveillance), and established widely accessible global data sharing platforms, the openFDA, that enabled researchers and the public to search and analyze adverse event data, and precisionFDA (part of the Presidential Precision Medicine initiative). During the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009-2010, Taha led CDC’s quick scale-up of monitoring hospital emergency department visits in coordination with state and local public health agencies. He holds a Doctor of Medicine and a Master of Science in Biostatistics from the University of Texas, and had his clinical training at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

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Employment (7)

Amazon: Seattle, WA, US

2017-05-01 to present | Chief Medical Officer, and Director of Machine Learning
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Trinity Health: Livonia, MI, US

2016-06-05 to 2017-04-30 | SVP, and Chief Analytics Officer
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US Food and Drug Administration: Silver Spring, MD, US

2013-03-10 to 2016-06-05 | Chief Health Informatics Officer
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Northrop Grumman Information Systems: McLean, VA, US

2002-04-01 to 2015-12-31 | Chief Scientist and Director, Advanced Concepts and Operations
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Atlanta, GA, US

2009-06-22 to 2013-03-09 | Director, Informatics Solutions and Operations
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InSTEDD (Google Founded): Palo Alto, CA, US

2006-01-01 to 2009-06-21
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Emory University School of Public Health: Atlanta, GA, US

2004-01 to 2008-08 | Assistant Professor (Biostatistics and Bioinformatics)
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Education and qualifications (4)

Harvard University John F Kennedy School of Government: Cambridge, MA, US

2010 to 2011 | Certificate in Government Executive, National Leadership
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University of Chicago Booth School of Business: Chicago, IL, US

2007 to 2007 | Certificate in Strategic Marketing Executive Program
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University of Texas School of Public Health: Houston, TX, US

1999-09 to 2001-08 | MS, Biostatistics (Biostatistics)
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University of Texas Medical School at Houston: Houston, TX, US

1993-09 to 1996-05 | MD (Medicine)
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Works (34)

The Biomedical Research Hub: A Federated Platform for Patient Research Data

2021-10-12 | Other
Contributors: Craig Barnes; Binam Bajracharya; Matthew Cannalte; Zakir Gowani; Will Haley; Taha Kass-Hout; Kyle Hernandez; Michael Ingram; Hara Prasad Juvvala; Gina Kuffel et al.
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Understanding Quality Paradigm Shifts in the Evolving Pharmaceutical Landscape: Perspectives from the USP Quality Advisory Group

The AAPS journal
2021-10-01 | Journal article
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Improving Early Sepsis Prediction with Multi Modal Learning

2021-07-23 | Preprint
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AWS CORD-19 Search: A Neural Search Engine for COVID-19 Literature

2020-07-17 | Preprint
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Improving Hospital Mortality Prediction with Medical Named Entities and Multimodal Learning

2018-11-29 | Preprint
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American Heart Association Precision Medicine Platform

Circulation
2018-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0009-7322
Contributors: Taha A. Kass-Hout; Laura M. Stevens; Jennifer L. Hall
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A research roadmap for next-generation sequencing informatics

Science Translational Medicine
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84964556719

Contributors: Altman, R.B.; Prabhu, S.; Sidow, A.; Zook, J.M.; Goldfeder, R.; Litwack, D.; Ashley, E.; Asimenos, G.; Bustamante, C.D.; Donigan, K. et al.
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Taha Kass-Hout via Scopus - Elsevier

Use of data mining at the food and drug administration

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84963717080

Contributors: Duggirala, H.J.; Tonning, J.M.; Smith, E.; Bright, R.A.; Baker, J.D.; Ball, R.; Bell, C.; Bright-Ponte, S.J.; Botsis, T.; Bouri, K. et al.
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Longer procedural times are independently associated with symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage in patients with large vessel occlusion stroke undergoing thrombectomy

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
2016-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Tareq Kass-Hout; Omar Kass-Hout; Chung-Huan Johnny Sun; Taha A Kass-Hout; Raul Nogueira; Rishi Gupta
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OpenFDA: an innovative platform providing access to a wealth of FDA’s publicly available data

J Am Med Inform Assoc
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Taha A Kass-Hout; Zhiheng Xu; Matthew Mohebbi; Hans Nelsen; Adam Baker; Jonathan Levine; Elaine Johanson; Roselie A Bright
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Signal detection using change point analysis in postmarket surveillance

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
2015-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Zhiheng Xu; Taha Kass-Hout; Colin Anderson-Smits; Gerry Gray
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Periprocedural Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Stent Retriever Era

Intervent Neurol
2015-03-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Tareq Kass-Hout; Omar Kass-Hout; Chung-Huan Sun; Taha Kass-Hout; Samir R. Belagaje; Aaron M. Anderson; Michael R. Frankel; Rishi Gupta; Raul G. Nogueira
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A Novel Approach to Diagnose Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome: A Case Series

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
2015-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Tareq Kass-Hout; Omar Kass-Hout; Chung-Huan J. Sun; Taha Kass-Hout; Pankajavalli Ramakrishnan; Fadi Nahab; Raul Nogueira; Rishi Gupta
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Erratum to: Digital Drug Safety Surveillance: Monitoring Pharmaceutical Products in Twitter

Drug Saf
2014-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Clark C. Freifeld; John S. Brownstein; Christopher M. Menone; Wenjie Bao; Ross Filice; Taha Kass-Hout; Nabarun Dasgupta
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Digital Drug Safety Surveillance: Monitoring Pharmaceutical Products in Twitter

Drug Saf
2014-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Clark C. Freifeld; John S. Brownstein; Christopher M. Menone; Wenjie Bao; Ross Filice; Taha Kass-Hout; Nabarun Dasgupta
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Clinical, angiographic and radiographic outcome differences among mechanical thrombectomy devices: initial experience of a large-volume center

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
2014-03 | Journal article
Contributors: T. Kass-Hout; O. Kass-Hout; C.-H. J. Sun; T. Kass-Hout; S. Belagaje; A. Anderson; M. Frankel; R. Gupta; R. Nogueira
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Enabling ESSENCE to Process and Export Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data

2013 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1947-2579
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Evaluation of ESSENCE in the Cloud Using Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data

2013 | Journal article
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Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011

2013 | Journal article
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Recommendations for Syndromic Surveillance Using Inpatient and Ambulatory EHR Data

2013 | Journal article
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Social media in public health

2013 | Journal article
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A Functional Public Health Surveillance System

2012 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0090-0036
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Information and decision support systems

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Self-reported fever and measured temperature in emergency department records used for syndromic surveillance

2012 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1067-5027
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Short Book Reviews

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Application of change point analysis to daily influenza-like illness emergency department visits.

2012 | Journal article
Contributors: Kass-Hout TA; Xu Z; McMurray P; Park S; Buckeridge DL; Brownstein JS; Finelli L; Groseclose SL
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A demonstration of meaningfully using the ISDS-recommended data elements

2011 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1752-8550
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A New Approach to Monitoring Dengue Activity

2011 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1935-2735
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Methods and Case Studies

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Participatory Epidemiology: Use of Mobile Phones for Community-Based Health Reporting

2010 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1549-1676
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NHIN, RHIOs, and Public Health

2007 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1078-4659
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A scoring system for ascertainment of incident stroke; the Risk Index Score (RISc)

Methods of Information in Medicine
2006 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-33645737798

Contributors: Kass-Hout, T.A.; Moyé, L.A.; Smith, M.A.; Morgenstern, L.B.
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Transportation barriers to accessing health care for urban children.

2006-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Yang S; Zarr RL; Kass-Hout TA; Kourosh A; Kelly NR
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Web-based Investigation of Multistate Salmonellosis Outbreak

2005 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1080-6040
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