 Keith Batchelder is the founder and CEO of Genomic Healthcare Strategies, a company focused on the changes in healthcare resulting from advances in molecular medicine. GHS provides strategy and implementation services for companies looking to enter or grow in the new markets emerging as result of predictive diagnostics and preventive medicine. Dr. Batchelder is interested in the intersection of the scientific, business and societal promises and challenges raised by personalized medicine. His area of expertise is in the analysis of new markets, channels, partners, and the new science supporting the rapidly evolving practice of medicine and wellness.
During a career that has spanned medical research, clinical practice, and management in start-ups and large organizations, Dr. Batchelder has served as chief technical officer of WorldCare International Clinical Trials, where he used biomarkers as surrogate endpoints for successful FDA approvals; as CIO of Harvard Salud Integral, where he helped to raise funding and grow a start-up HMO in Mexico City; as a principal of AMICAS Corp, where he took a web-based radiology system from concept to a venture-funded and profitable software company; and at Massachusetts General Hospital for eight years, where he conducted research in drug discovery and published in peer reviewed journals.
Dr. Batchelder was educated at Middlebury College, the Hahnemann University School of Medicine, received postgraduate training in Medical Informatics at The Boston VA Hospital and completed a fellowship at the Food and Drug Administration.
Dr. Batchelder writes and speaks frequently on the topic of personalized medicine (e.g., (Nature Biotechnology, Scientific American conference on Targeted Medicine, Burrill & Co ) and has organized several well attended symposia including Personalized Medicine: Breaking Down Barriers and Getting Results in 2007.
Dr. Batchelder is one of the first ten volunteers to have their genomes sequenced and published in Harvard Genetics Professor George Church’s Personal Genome Project. |
