Lara Jehi Laboratory

Lara Jehi, MD, MHCDS

Staff
Chief Research Information Officer
Director, Center for Computational Life Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Location: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

Research

Biography

Dr. Jehi is professor of neurology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and an epilepsy specialist at Cleveland Clinic since 2006. She is Director of the Outcomes Research program for epilepsy, the Chief Research Information Officer for Cleveland Clinic, and the Executive Program lead for the Discovery Accelerator focused on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and data science education.​

She is currently spearheading multi-institutional National Institutes of Health funded grants focused on data science. She has led teams that developed the first nomograms for individualized outcome prediction after epilepsy surgery, and advanced mechanistic understanding of outcomes. Her work was featured by Lancet Neurology in the Top 5 Innovations of 2015, and in the “Notables​in Healthcare” Award by Crain’s Business in 2021. Her data-driven algorithms for clinical care decision-making are being used, studied and expanded worldwide. Dr. Jehi holds several research leadership roles at Cleveland Clinic. As co-director of Network Capacity for the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland, her team facilitates multi-center clinical trials through streamlined recruitment efforts, using the electronic health record. She is the principal investigator of Cleveland Clinic’s Biorepository, a role leveraging information technology, enterprise analytics and regulatory support to efficiently scale up and incorporate biobanking efforts within clinical workflow. She is a vice-chair of Cleveland Clinic’s Institutional Review Board.​

She chairs several key commissions in the International League Against Epilepsy and the American Epilepsy Society. She has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, 12 book chapters and is a regular reviewer for NIH study sections, and an invited speaker to international meetings on the topics of epilepsy surgery, outcome prediction, and data science.​

Dr. Jehi received her medical degree from American University of Beirut. She completed her residency in neurology and fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at Cleveland Clinic, and holds a Master’s degree in Health Care Delivery Science from Dartmouth College.​

Education & Professional Highlights