The Department of Pediatrics is pleased to announce the appointment of Zachary Grinspan, M.D., M.S. as Vice Chair of Health Data Science, effective March 1, 2024.
Dr. Grinspan is the Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Weill Cornell Medicine and the NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital at Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Grinspan is board certified in Pediatrics, Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology, and Epilepsy. He is also a Nanette Laitman Clinical Scholar at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Dr. Grinspan most recently served as the Interim Division Chief of Child Neurology where he worked to deliver high quality comprehensive patient- and family-centered care, to encourage the Division’s research activities and collaborative initiatives, and to provide a robust training environment for the next generation of clinicians and pediatrician-scientists.
In this new role, Dr. Grinspan will develop and execute a vision for health data science in the Department of Pediatrics, develop a health data science infrastructure and databases that support the data science needs of the Department and that can be used by the Department faculty, trainees, and staff to conduct innovative research as well as improve child healthcare quality and efficiency.
He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, and his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. He completed a residency in Pediatrics at the Mass General Hospital for Children in Boston, returning to New York to complete his residency in child neurology at Columbia University Medical Center and a fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Dr. Grinspan also completed a post-doctoral research program in quality of care and clinical informatics at Weill Cornell Medicine, funded through the National Institutes of Health Neurologic Science Academic Development Award (NIH NSADA). In addition to his Medical Degree, he holds a Masters of Science in Biostatistics.
A national leader in pediatric epilepsy research, he has more than 100 published research articles including collaborations with international experts across multiple disciplines (epilepsy, emergency medicine, critical care, health services research, informatics, biostatistics, machine learning, engineering, and economics). He leads several large multi-centered research projects supported including a CDC funded study of the epidemiology of rare epilepsies in New York City, a 25-center grant to build a national learning healthcare system for pediatric epilepsy, and an NIH study to study seizures in newborns.