Nicholas Genes

Bio

Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, and Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Dr. Genes graduated from Brown University, received his MD and PhD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and completed Emergency Medicine residency training, chief residency, and a fellowship in informatics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Genes currently leads development and analysis of data for the groundbreaking Asthma Health app, among the first to employ Apple's new ResearchKit platform. He serves on his hospital’s eHealth working group where he evaluates patient-facing health IT startups for pilot programs. Dr. Genes has been a leading figure in social media, pioneering its use for physicians as a professional tool as well as for emergency preparedness. He has spearheaded several novel initiatives and studies in EHR usability, and studied the impact of health information exchanges (HIE) among ED providers. He has written on the risks of EHR metadata, the benefits of clinical decision support, and ethics doctors googling patients, among other topics.