Michael Lauer

Lauer spent 14 years at Cleveland Clinic as professor of medicine, epidemiology, and biostatistics. During his tenure at the Clinic, he led a federally funded clinical epidemiology program that applied big data from large-scale electronic health platforms to questions regarding the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. From 2007 to 2015 he served as a division director at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), where promoted efforts to leverage big data infrastructure to enable high-efficiency population and clinical research and efforts to adopt a research funding culture that reflected data-driven policy.^[1]

Lauer was the deputy director for extramural research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).^[1]

Lauer won an Arthur S. Flemming Award for exceptional federal service in recognition of his efforts to grow a culture of learning and accountability.^[1]