Julie Anne Jacko, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Professor Julie Anne Jacko is the Dean of Innovation & Engagement for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Interim Director of the Usher Institute, and Chaired Professor of Health Informatics and Data Science at the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is a leader, innovator, scholar and entrepreneur. Dr. Jacko has a career lifetime total exceeding $30 million in externally funded research as either PI or Co-PI. She has over 15,850 total citations. With an h-index of 54 overall, her 180+ publications have appeared in preeminent scientific journals, including Nature, Gynecologic Oncology, Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, and Retina. She is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor awarded to early-stage research investigators by the U.S. government. Numerous awards since have positioned her at the forefront of her field.Passionately committed to addressing historic health inequities for communities of color, marginalized populations, and low-resourced communities, Dr. Jacko is a 2023 recipient of a $1M grant awarded by the Health Foundation of South Florida to lead the PATHWell Collaborative, a public-private partnership focused on achieving health equity for Florida's most disadvantaged communities. She also served as the Principal Investigator/Project Director on a Florida Blue Foundation grant focused on preventing opioid and substance abuse by South Florida's vulnerable youth, through education, research, and community health interventions. Formerly, as the Founding Director of the Institute for Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota (UMN), she established a new model of interdisciplinary collaboration that culminated in, among other achievements, the receipt of a $5.15 million award from the ONC to create the University Partnership for Health Informatics, the first public-private institutional partnership in the Upper Midwest delivering multiple graduate degree programs in the field of health informatics. An expert consultant in the manufacturing, healthcare and IT sectors, Dr. Jacko often serves as a strategist for organizations seeking to improve productivity, profitability, and impact. She has an innate passion for entrepreneurial endeavors. In 2015, she was recognized as a top entrepreneur in Miami, Florida for having created “one of the city’s most prolific businesses.”

Listed skills include Human Computer Interaction, Research, Informatics, User Centered Design, and 41 others.