Dr. Kimmel is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Decision Systems Group of Harvard Medical School and a Fellow in Medical Informatics at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

A graduate of Brown University (B.A. in physics), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.S. in computer science) and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine (M.D.), Dr. Kimmel is currently pursuing the MBA degree at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Before attending MIT, he served as a Visiting Fellow at the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Kimmel, a Company Managing Director, has numerous patents and publications to his name..