Dr. Safran is a primary care physician who has helped transform healthcare through the creative use of communication and information technologies. In 2014 he was awarded the Morris F. Collen Award, the highest honor given by the American College of Medical Informatics to individuals whose personal commitment and dedication to biomedical informatics have made a lasting impression on healthcare and biomedicine.

He was the President and Chairman of the American Medical Informatics Association and Vice-President of the International Medical Informatics Association. He is an elected fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics.

Dr. Safran was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Medical Informatics for two decades and is a council member of the Health on the Net Foundation in Geneva Switzerland. He is Director of Intelligent Medical Objects; a terminology company that helps clinicians capture clinical intent.

Dr. Safran has been teaching and training physicians and nurses to use information and communication technology to transform healthcare for over three decades. He leads the Clinical Informatics track of the HMS Master’s program in Biomedical Informatics and directs the BIDMC fellowship in Clinical Informatics.