Kamran

Kamran Badizadegan, MD

Kamran joined Kid Risk in 2019 after a 25-year career in academic pathology, most recently as Professor and Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Kamran's current research is focused on analytical tools and computational methods in healthcare, including diagnostic medicine and public health.

Education



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (1988)

Harvard Medical School

Doctor of Medicine (1993)

Clinical Board Certifications

Anatomic Pathology; Pediatric Pathology; Clinical Informatics

Career Highlights



Kid Risk, Inc.

Vice President (2019-present)

Integrated analytical modeling primarily to support decision making and economic analyses within the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the US Centers for Disease Control and Eradication.

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Professor and Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (2016-19)

Structural reorganization and expansion of subspecialty clinical practice; Development of multiple quality improvement and personnel development programs; Expansion of multiple diagnostic services, including startup of Diagnostic Immunology; and Medical directorship of Nationwide Children's Laboratory Services and the Institute for Genomic Medicine Clinical Laboratory, collectively producing >3 million billable tests per year.

Nemours Children's Hospital

Professor and Founding Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (2011-16)

Founding member of the medical staff (new hospital development); startup of subspecialty hospital laboratory providing services in anatomic pathology and laboratory medicine; recipient of physician excellence award in quality.

Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Multiple positions through Associate Professor at Harvard and Principal Research Scientist at MIT (1997-2011)

Subspecialty clinical practice with increasing clinical and leadership responsibility at Children's Hospital Boston and Massachusetts General Hospital; Core Faculty member and course director at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; Member of The Academy at Harvard Medical School (for leadership in teaching); Principal Research Scientist and Associate Director at the MIT Spectroscopy Laboratory with research focused on biomedical optics and quantitative diagnostics.