Michael J. Becich

Dr. Becich is currently the Chairman of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Biomedical Informatics. He co-founded the Association for Pathology Informatics and was the inaugural course director of the Pathology Informatics Summit. He is Associate Vice-Chancellor for Informatics for the Health Sciences and co-directs the Center for Commercial Applications of Healthcare Data as part of the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance in partnership with UPMC Enterprises. Previously, he was a co-founder of Tissue Informatics and InterScope Technologies. He has been an innovator in bioinformatics, imaging and tissue banking informatics and data sharing. Dr. Becich is currently consultant to several academic health systems, cancer centers and biotech companies.