JOINLeslie McIntosh
Dr. Leslie McIntosh, PhD, MPH is the founder and CEO who is an internationally known consultant, speaker, and researcher passionate about mentoring the next generation of data scientists.
She is active in the Research Data Alliance, grew the St. Louis Machine Learning and Data Science Meetup to over 1500 participants, and was a fellow with a San Francisco based VC firm.
Dr. McIntosh has a focus of assessing and improving the full research cycle (data collection, management, sharing, discoverability) and making the research process reproducible. She holds a Masters and PhD in Public Health with concentrations in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from Saint Louis University.
Dr. Leslie McIntosh currently serves in two positions. She is the inaugural Executive Director for the Research Data Alliance – US (RDA-US), which is part of a global organization developing recommendations for data sharing and interoperability. She is also the founder and CEO of Ripeta, LLC, a company formed to improve scientific research reproducibility.
Before transitioning as the CEO of Ripeta, she spent 10 years at Washington University in St. Louis (WU) as the Director of Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) serving the WU Center for Translational and Siteman Cancer Center. In that capacity, she led a dynamic team of 25 individuals (one-half of whom identify as women) and a multi-million dollar annual budget facilitating biomedical informatics services including the software and service development to assess and improve the full biomedical research cycle.
Dr. McIntosh has experience leading diverse teams to develop and deliver meaningful data to improve scientific decisions. She is an accomplished data scientist and an internationally known consultant, speaker, and trainer who is passionate about mentoring the next generation.