Mary Kratz

Mary Kratz

Senior Advisor
Medical and Healthcare Informatics

Ms. Kratz is the Executive Vice President of the Interoperability Institute. She is a leader in the field of biomedical informatics, working at the intersection of interoperability, telemedicine, and business development.

Ms. Kratz is a former Senior Health Informatics Advisor to the United States Department of State, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program. She implemented health information systems in over 40 countries, primarily low and middle-income countries in sub- Saharan Africa.

She has assisted the World Health Organization, International Telecommunication Union, United States Agency for International Development, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health and the National Academies of Science Institute of Medicine in formulating and articulating policy, position, and response to current and emerging technologies and enabling interoperability across a variety of public and private organizational missions.

Ms. Kratz was Internet2’s initial Health Sciences Director, implementing the next generation Internet for academic organizations in the United States and globally, before taking a position with the U.S. Government.