Dr. Christopher W. Bartlett is a Principle Investigator at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute of Nationwide Children's Hospital, with an additional role as a Professor of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University. With a strong emphasis on informatics approaches, Dr. Bartlett's research program, supported by the National Institutes of Health funding, is dedicated to investigating the complex interplay of biomedical informatics approaches--including machine learning and artificial intelligence--with advances in research combining electronic health record information to improve the translation of clinical science to patient care. His clinical subject expertise includes neurodevelopmental topics such as prematurity/neonatology, precision medicine dosing, autism, language impairment, and adolescent psychiatry.

Throughout Dr. Bartlett’s career, he has dedicated his time to the development of innovative statistical methods to enhance our understanding of childhood development, from pre-term birth to young adulthood. Specializing in the design and application of data analytic paradigms, his work significantly contributes to elucidating the complex interplay between environmental factors and childhood intrinsic characteristics.

His lab uses a blend of clinical data, genetics, and hypothesis-driven informatics to address specific scientific questions. Alongside more traditional research, he conducts studies leveraging big data approaches, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, on both large structured datasets and unstructured data such as images. Much of his work focuses on extracting information from complex sources of raw data that contain data not missing randomly.