Lucila Ohno-Machado
Lucila Ohno-Machado is a biomedical engineer and the chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and associate dean for informatics and technology at UC San Diego.
She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the National Academy of Medicine.

Career 
Machado earned an MD from the University of São Paulo School of Medicine in Brazil in 1987, where she had been educated since 1982. She also has a Masters of Health Administration from Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Brazil, where she studied from 1989 to 1991. From 1990 to 1991, she was the director of Medical Informatics for the University of São Paulo's radiology department. 

She was a research fellow in medicine at Stanford University from 1991 to 1996, where she earned a PhD in medical information sciences and computer science.

After this, she was a professor in the Department of Radiology and the Division of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard-MIT. She directed the Harvard-MIT-Tufts-Boston University training program in biomedical informatics and was the associate director of the Department of Radiology's Decision Systems Group at Brigham & Women's Hospital.
In 2009, she founded the Department of Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego.

She has been the editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association since 2011. She also sits on several review committees for the National Institutes of Health.

Personal life 
Machado grew up in Brazil. She is married and has three sons.

Awards 
 James A. Shannon Director's Award, National Institute of Health
 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research, Brigham & Women's Hospital
 Elected to the American College of Medical Informatics
 2002 - Elected to the American Medical Informatics Association
 2010 - Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation
 2018 - Elected to the National Academy of Medicine