Jason Johnson

Jason Johnson is Chief Data and Analytics Officer and SVP of Informatics and Analytics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where he has served for 9 years.  Jason’s department at DFCI includes research informatics, AI operations and services, business intelligence/analytics, scientific computing, and software engineering.  Prior to joining Dana-Farber, Jason was Head of R&D at PatientsLikeMe, a patient-focused research company in Cambridge, MA. He came to that position after 16 years in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries in various leadership roles in computational sciences, informatics, IT, and genomics. Jason has undergraduate degrees in philosophy and physics from Stanford University, a master’s degree in physics from the University of Cambridge (UK), and a PhD in biophysics from Harvard University