Nawar Shara

Dr. Nawar Shara is the Chief of Research Data Science for the MedStar Health Research Institute, and co-director of the Center for Biostatistics Informatics and Data Science. She is an associate professor of medicine at Georgetown Medical School, and is a founding co-director of the AI Co-Lab, a new collaboration between MedStar Health and Georgetown University, studying artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare research and education. She earned her undergraduate degree in economics from Damascus University, Syria, and her Masters’ and PhD in applied statistics at American University in Washington DC. She has been at Georgetown for over 20 years.