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R.P. Channing Rodgers, MD

R.P. Channing Rodgers is currently a professor at UCSF with a focus on informatics research and training.

Previously, he was a clinical officer at the FDA in the office of Orphan Product Development, where he leveraged informatics to identify overlooked therapies for rare diseases, created a network-based course for small clinical trials, and reviewed grant and orphan drug applications.

Dr. Rodgers joined the FDA from the NIH, where he had the distinction of being the first physician to actively develop biomedical applications for the Web. At the NIH, he was the founding chair of the National Science Foundation’s Web Consortium, and he co-created the first large catalogued image archive for the Web and devised and directed an Internet-based multimedia course: “The Science of Small Clinical Trials.”

Dr. Rodgers received training at Harvard College and the University of Utah College of Medicine. He received postdoctoral training at the University of London, NCI’s Laboratory of Theoretical Biology, and the International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology (Brussels). He completed training in Clinical Pathology within the Department of Laboratory Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Rodgers has published extensively and was formerly the editor-in-chief of the journal Computers in Biology and Medicine.



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