Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS

Dr. Taha Kass-Hout is GE HealthCares Global Chief Science & Technology Officer, pioneering AI in medical imaging and diagnostics. Educated at Harvard and UTHealth, his distinguished career includes leadership roles at Amazon/AWS and the FDA, driving digital transformation in healthcare. People who have worked with him describe him as brilliant, creative, and passionate.

He has a keen interest in design, drawing parallels between mid-century modern architectures human-centered engineering and the need to build healthcare systems that prioritize people over data. He also founded Humanitarian Tracker, a nonprofit that empowers citizens using technology to support humanitarian causes.

As the first-ever Chief Health Informatics Officer at the U. S. FDA, he founded the openFDA and precisionFDA initiatives to modernize medicine through data transparency.