
Paul G. Nagy, PhD
Highlights
Languages
- English
Gender
MaleJohns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Paul G. Nagy
Professional Titles
- Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center
- Director of Education, Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Graduate Training Programs
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Medicine
Background
Paul Nagy, PhD, FSIIM is Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Radiology with appointments in the Department of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering, and Health Policy Management Department in the School of Public Health. He received his BS from Carnegie Mellon University and PhD at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
He is the Director of Education for graduate training program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science in the School of Medicine, with over 70 graduate students, including doctoral program support from an NLM T15 award. He teaches 6 courses on data science, working with EHR and Medical Imaging data.
He leads the JH Observational Health and Data Science Informatics (OHDSI) research group at Johns Hopkins, where we have standardized the JHM Epic EHR of 3+ million patients into the OMOP common data model. This group has led or participated in 15 multi-institutional observational research studies and has been awarded 35 million in grants and contracts since 2021 from the FDA, NIH, NSF, and the CDC. Dr. Nagy is currently the Co-PI on the 14 M/7 year NIH Maternal Health Centers of Excellence and the 8 M/ 4 year CDC Pregnant Patient Surveillance program. In 2022, he received the OHDSI Titan Award for his contributions to the field of observational research.
He currently serves as the chair of the American Medical Informatics Association Academic Forum, which represents degree grant informatics programs. He is a past chair of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine and the American Board of Imaging Informatics as well as the past president of the College of SIIM Fellows. He is the author of over 145 papers and over 300 presentations in the field of informatics and implementation science.
Centers and Institutes
Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
- New Limerick-based cancer research hub ‘uses data to save lives’, Irish Independent (January 18, 2025)
Research Interests
Biomedical Informatics
Medical Imaging Informatics
Observational Research
Educational Informatics
Lab Website
Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center (TIC) - Lab Website
- The TIC works with interdisciplinary teams to bring digital health products to life in clinical settings at Johns Hopkins Health System. TIC offers design, development, business, and project management partnership to solve clinical problems that span the range of medical specialties and practice settings. Through community-based events and programs, the TIC also works to train the next wave of digital health innovators and builds start-up teams with the tools to launch commercial products improving patient care at Johns Hopkins and across the industry.
Google Scholar - Publications
Pure - Research Profile
Courses & Syllabi
- Introduction to Precision Medicine, School of Medicine, 250.771, 9/1/23 - 10/20/23
- Clinical Data Analysis with Python, School of Medicine, 250.77, 10/20/23 - 12/20/23
- Database Querying in Healthcare, School of Medicine, 250.957, 10/20/23 - 12/20/23
- Implementing Interoperability Standards in Medicine (FHIR), School of Medicine, 250.778, 1/20/23 - 3/20/23
- Observational Research with the OMOP Common Data Model, School of Medicine, 250.782, 1/20/23 - 3/20/23
Honors
- 2022 OHDSI Titan Award, Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI), 10/20/22
- Inducted, College of Fellows for the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine, 1/1/12
Professional Activities
Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine, Chair
Expertise
Education
- Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Ph.D., 2000
- Carnegie Mellon University, B.S., 1991