Dennis Ausiello, MD is the Director of the Center for Assessment  Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH), a program he founded as a  joint effort between Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts  Institute of Technology (MIT) physicians, scientists and engineers to  provide real-time measurement and analysis of the human phenotype in  wellness and disease.

He previously served as Chief of Medicine at Mass General from 1996 until his retirement in 2013. In this role, he  led one of the strongest departments of medicine in the country. He is a nationally recognized leader in academic medicine, having been elected  to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science (1999)  and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003). He has written for many publications, including the New York Times and the Wall Street  Journal, on various health subjects including human genetics, clinical  trials, and the relationship between the academy and industry.

As  an internationally recognized scientist, with specific expertise in  epithelial and membrane biology, ion and water channel regulation and  signal transduction, Dr. Ausiello has served as a council member of the  National Institute of Diabetes, the Digestive and Kidney Diseases  Advisory Council and the National Advisory Council on Aging.

He  served on the Board of Directors of the Broad Institute, an independent  partnership of Harvard and MIT faculty working in human genetics, as  well as the board of directors of the nonprofit organization,  Research!America, the leading advocate group for investment in  biomedical research in the United States.