Christian Reich
Chief Scientific Officer at RS Scientific Consulting
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Reich is a Chief Scientific Officer and seasoned informatics leader with 11+ years in translational bioinformatics and over two decades of experience across academia, industry, and public-private initiatives. He currently leads science at Nemesis Health while serving as Professor of Practice at Northeastern and Principal Investigator for the OHDSI collaborative, reflecting a rare blend of operational leadership and community-driven open science. His career spans senior roles at IQVIA, AstraZeneca, and Millennium, where he built real-world evidence platforms and discovery informatics systems grounded in the OMOP Common Data Model. He advises and consults through RS Scientific Consulting, bringing hands-on expertise in sequence analysis, clinical informatics, and health IT to both startups and large organizations. Known for navigating complex regulatory-scientific interfaces (OMOP/PhRMA–FDA work) and translating heterogeneous clinical data into actionable insights, he combines an MD background with deep technical fluency. Based in Boston, he balances academic mentorship with pragmatic product development, often advancing reproducible open research in real-world data.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MD Medicine, MD Medicine at Medizinische Universität LübeckBsc Medicine, Bsc Medicine at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
English, German, Russian
Github Skills (81)
standardized10
build-process10
in-progress10
sports-data10
data-model9
atlas9
health9
r-package9
romaji9
replication9
sketchup8
prediction8
mappings8
webapi8
clinical-trials8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OHDSI/Vocabulary-v4.5
Aug 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
OHDSI/Vocab-download
Oct 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 months
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