Firas Wehbe
Senior Healthcare Executive Advisor at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolFiras Wehbe is a senior healthcare executive advisor and clinician-scientist with 12 years of experience bridging biomedical informatics, machine learning, and operational leadership across academic medical centers and industry. Holding an MD and a PhD in Biomedical Informatics, he has built and sustained large multimodal biomedical data platforms, led Centers for AI, and scaled informatics programs from research prototypes to enterprise-grade clinical and research solutions. He moves fluidly between hands-on data science and strategic leadership, having served as Chief Research Informatics Officer at Northwestern, physician-leader roles at Kaiser Permanente, and now advising healthcare at AWS while running his consultancy. Known for assembling cross-disciplinary teams, he delivers pragmatic ML and informatics interventions that align tightly with business priorities and clinical workflows. Less obvious: his background in chemistry and rigorous information retrieval research gives him a unique ability to connect foundational scientific reasoning with practical AI deployments that improve care and discovery.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lebanese Baccalaureate Mathematics, Lebanese Baccalaureate Mathematics at International CollegePhD Biomedical Informatics, PhD Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt UniversityMD Medicine, MD Medicine at American University of Beirut
Arabic, English, French
Github Skills (21)
redcap10
r-package9
r8
python7
artifacts4
single-sign-on3
biopython2
relational2
machine-learning1
cloud-infrastructure1
nitro1
pytorch1
sandbox1
cloud-computing1
data-science1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firaswehbe/data-programming-resources
Dec 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:96 commits in 8 months
firaswehbe/eutilsutils
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
utils for eutils (based on BioPython)
Contributions:75 commits, 12 PRs, 68 pushes in 8 years
biopython
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