Clair Kronk, PhD

Clair Kronk is a biomedical informatician and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Medical Informatics at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is the creator of the Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation (GSSO) ontology, a controlled vocabulary with over 14,000 terms. She also has served on the HL7 Gender Harmony Project, was a member of the SNOMED CT Sex and Gender Clinical Project Group, and has consulted with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DICOM, Canada Health Infoway, the National Academy of Sciences, and Queensland Health on sex- and gender-related data representation standards. She is also a Board Member for the Homosaurus vocabulary and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Kronk’s current studies focus on representations of gender and sex diversities in electronic health records (EHRs), and how these representations, and the linguistic constructs behind them, impact patient care and research.