Firas Wehbe, MD, PhD, FAMIA is a senior healthcare executive advisor at AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences. He supports healthcare provider organizations, including academic medical centers, looking to modernize their approach to patient care, advanced analytics, and health data repositories using the AWS cloud. He draws on his deep experience as a clinical and translational researcher leading multidisciplinary teams tackling specialized computationally intensive projects across multiple data modalities including genomics, pathology, and EHR data. He was Chief Research Information Officer at Northwestern Medicine and the Feinberg School of Medicine where he was responsible for integrating informatics operations and infrastructure spanning both the research and clinical enterprises. He trained as a physician and received his PhD from Vanderbilt University applying machine learning techniques for information retrieval in semantically complex molecular medicine domains.