David Fenstermacher, PhD

Expertise: medical image analysis, MRI, image reconstruction, motion analysis, ultrasound

Dr. Fenstermacher is currently the Chief Research Information Officer for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Director of Biomedical Informatics for the Center for Clinical and Translational Research, the Chief Research Information Officer for the Massey Cancer Center and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics. Previously he was the Founding Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Moffitt Cancer Center (MCC) and Chief Bioinformatics Officer for M2Gen. He has established and directed multiple informatics research programs for more than sixteen years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and The Moffitt Cancer Center. During his tenure in biomedical informatics, Dr. Fenstermacher has designed and directed the implementation of several bioinformatics and biomedical informatics distributed computing systems to support basic, translational and clinical research, including multiple institution research projects. He has also designed data management systems for more specialized projects including integrating patient-level clinical data, genomics (genome-wide association studies, massively parallel sequencing, array-based technologies) and other ‘omics data to support studies focused on cancer and other human diseases. Data management systems designed by Dr. Fenstermacher have included: collection and integration of subject clinical data; data quality methodologies, development of web-based forms for input, storage and retrieval of clinical and research data, customized data representations, data governance and data sharing using data warehouses and Grid technologies. Current work focuses on developing informatics resources that span the informatics continuum of Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics and Clinical/Medical Informatics specifically for precision medicine and health outcomes research.