In his role with Tufts CTSI, Joseph J. Frassica, MD, provides overall leadership for the Tufts CTSI Informatics team and program operations. He leads our current team of Informatics Co-Directors, Will Harvey, Clark Evans, and Andrew Williams, specific to their roles within the CTSI. Dr. Frassica is working to further develop and implement the strategic vision for Tufts CTSI Informatics efforts and strengthen our collaboration with the Tufts research community, with MIT, and with other partners.
Dr. Frassica continues to serve as Professor of the Practice in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, a longtime Tufts CTSI partner. He is also a member of the teaching and research staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital (Pediatric Critical Care) and serves as Pediatric Editor for the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine.
Dr. Frassica has served in multiple academic and industrial leadership roles. Most recently, Joe served as the Head of Philips Research for the Americas as well as Chief Medical Officer for Philips – North America. Prior to this appointment, Dr Frassica served as Chief Technology Officer, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Medical Officer for Philips Connected Care and Healthcare Informatics Division. In these roles, Dr Frassica contributed significant clinical and technical insights to guide the advancement of highly distributed patient monitoring, alarm management and therapeutic devices including patient ventilators and defibrillators. At Philips research, Dr Frassica and his Cambridge Lab team focused on the use of large-scale, high-resolution data to develop AI/ML-based predictive models, Clinical Decision Support, imaging analytics, interventional guidance and bacterial genomics.
Dr. Frassica has also served in multiple leadership roles in academic medicine including: Chief Medical Officer at Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida; Chief Medical Information Officer and Executive Medical Director of Aero-Medical Transport for Miami’s Jackson Health System; and Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Pediatrics and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine; Chief of Pediatric Critical Care at UMASS/Memorial Medical Center and Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at University of Massachusetts Medical School; Attending Pediatric Intensivist at Massachusetts General Hospital; Attending Anesthesiologist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Chief of Anesthesia at Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Frassica received his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Massachusetts/Boston, his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Case Western Reserve University and his Medical Degree from the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Frassica completed residencies in Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the Boston Medical Center (Boston City Hospital)/Boston University and completed a Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.