Art Sedrakyan is a tenured professor at Weill Cornell Medicine and directs the Institute for Health Technologies and Interventions. He co-directs Center-Program of Intelligent Image Guided interventions (CI3) at Cornell/New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Sedrakyan is the initiator of over 15 major national and international coordinated big data research networks in collaboration with HHS. He is a trained Cardio-Thoracic surgeon and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University with Ph.D in Health Policy and Management. He was a senior adviser at FDA and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He is current ranking member and was previously the Vice-Chair of Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC).
He is serving as a specialist advisor for Australian Therapeutic Good Administration (TGA), Expert for European Commission Horizon 2020 funding and Japanese Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). He co-Leads the Medical Device Epidemiology Network’s (MDEpiNet) and established Australian, European and Japanese chapters. He is the Vice-Chair of the international IDEAL surgery and interventional care initiative with focus on devices.
Since May 2019 he is serving as a founding Co-Editor-In-Chief of ‘BMJ Surgery, Interventions & Health Technologies’ (BMJ-SIT). He has published over 350 manuscripts and received over $30M in funding in the past 10 years as a principal investigator.
