BIFOLD Colloquium 10/2025

Leveraging Medical Data Sciences for Digital Transformation – A Systems Approach

Abstract: will be provided later

BIO: Felix Balzer studied medicine and computer science, including study periods in Paris and at Weill Cornell University in New York. After earning his doctoral degree in medicine (Dr. med.) in Medical Informatics at the University of Freiburg, he began his residency at Charité in 2009 and completed his habilitation (venia legendi) in Experimental Anesthesiology in 2015. One year later, he received the “Medical Informatics” certificate awarded by GMDS/GI/BVMI. In 2017, he became board-certified in anesthesiology and also completed a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Department of Computer Science at Humboldt University of Berlin.

In 2018, he was appointed to the endowed professorship for E-Health and Shared Decision Allocation at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). In January 2021, he became full professor of Medical Data Science and director of the Institute of Medical Informatics at Charité. As Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO), he holds clinical-technical responsibility for the digitalization of patient care, the implementation of a new EMR system, and the use of routine clinical data at Charité.

From September 2024 to January 2025, he served as interim Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Charité. Since February 2025, Prof. Balzer has been Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Digitalization.