Paul Bleicher, MD, PhD, is CEO of OptumLabs, a collaborative research and innovation center. Previously, he was CMO for Humedica, a next-generation clinical informatics company. He founded Phase Forward, which helped bring clinical trials from paper to the web. Dr. Bleicher holds a BS from Rensselaer, and an MD and PhD from University of Rochester. He began his career as a physician/investigator and assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School