Lea Davis, PhD

Lea K. Davis, PhD is a Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Genetics and Genomics. She is the Scientific Director of the Sinai Million Health Discoveries Program (SMHDP), one of the largest such sequencing projects of its kind. The SMHDP aims to integrate health and research data at Mount Sinai to promote discoveries that will directly benefit our patient population. Dr. Davis’s research spans many domains of medicine and psychiatry from neurodevelopmental disorders to womens’ health and employs a population level approach to investigate the genetic basis of a wide range of complex health conditions, diseases, and common traits. Her lab’s research integrates genetics, clinical informatics, and social determinants of health to study health outcomes captured in real world clinical data found in the electronic health record. In addition to her work on complex trait genomics, Dr. Davis has a long-standing commitment to furthering social justice through science, research ethics, genomic privacy, and responsible data sharing.