Mei-Sing Ong, PhD

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Mei-Sing Ong
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Boston, MA
Mei-Sing Ong, PhD

Mei-Sing Ong, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. As a scientist working at the intersection of informatics and medicine, Dr. Ong’s research harnesses longitudinal clinical data to improve diagnosis and optimal treatment of chronic diseases, with a focus on advancing evidence-based care for pediatric chronic diseases. Her research introduces computational methodologies to the study of chronic diseases that are often misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed, including the application of machine learning methods to identify underdiagnosed diseases and to investigate patterns of diagnostic failures. Dr. Ong was a NAM scholar in diagnostic excellence in 2021.