Blackford Middleton, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., is Corporate Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development, and Chairman of the Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL) at Partners HealthCare System, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Middleton studied molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received a medical degree from the State University of New York Buffalo, and trained in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center. He received a Masters of Public Health degree from Yale, and completed a General Medicine Fellowship at Stanford University, where he received a Masters of Science degree in Health Services Research, focusing on medical informatics.

As Corporate Director for Partners Clinical Informatics Research & Development, he helps to direct enterprise clinical systems strategy and clinical product management, and he conducts clinical informatics research with both intramural and extramural support. He is Chairman of CITL at Partners, and leads its research in value-based technology assessment. Dr. Middleton serves on the Boards of Directors of the Catholic Health Initiatives, the Markle Foundation Steering Committee, and is past Chairman of the eHealthcare Information Management & Systems Society (HIMSS), and the Computer-based Patient Record Institute (CPRI).