Britta Lassmann, MD
Co-Director and Co-Founder, BEACON; Research Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine
Britta Lassmann, MD is an infectious diseases physician and health technology innovator with expertise in overseeing the development of applications at the intersection of clinical care, public health, analytics and technology. She is experienced in different disease tracking methodologies, tools and technologies with an appreciation of the cross-cutting scientific areas that support informal disease surveillance and risk predictions including epidemiology, clinical care, mathematical modeling, analytics, and technology. Dr. Lassmann is a graduate of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester and her fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Yale University. Subsequently, she served as a faculty member in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles and was the Program Director at the International Society for Infectious Diseases. She is also the co-founder of Global Second Opinion, focused on combining AI and medical expert opinions for rapid online medical specialty expertise. She is American Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.