Aaron Black is the chief data officer at the Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI). ITMI was established in 2011 to provide precision medicine as part of Inova’s vision of being a destination health care provider in the greater Virginia and Washington, D.C. area. Previously, Aaron was the informatics manager and leader for the Biospecimen Core Resource at Nationwide Children’s Hospital for the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Genome Atlas project. He was co-architect for the flexible data model to store and access data from studies for more than 30 cancer subtypes and clinical data from biobanks and academic institutions across five continents.
Aaron has been a keynote speaker and national and international conferences for Science, Healthcare and Information Technology including TEDx Tysons, NIH, Amazon ReInvent, Precision Medicine World Conference, Tableau, Cloudera, ASHG, HIMSS and an invited speaker at the National Research Council’s Standing Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space (CBPSS). He currently advises Industry and Academia in Health Informatics, Data Science and Executive Data Leadership. In 2017, he was awarded Chief Technology Officer of the Year by the Washington Business Journal.
Aaron graduated from Miami University with degrees in accounting and management information systems, and studied international business at Miami’s Luxembourg campus. Aaron is a certified Project Management Professional and ScrumMaster, and has dozen of technical certifications from Microsoft and the Information Technology Infrastructure Library.