Beth Britt, PhD

Director of Analytics, School of Medicine
University of Washington

Dr. Beth Britt is the Director of Analytics, reporting to both School of Medicine BIME Department and UW Medicine IT Services.  The Analytics group at UW Medicine is comprised of approximately 50 architects, analysts, developers and administrators managing a set of business intelligence solutions and warehouses.  Since joining UW Medicine in May of 2015, Dr. Britt has led and/or supported efforts to implement a new enterprise wide data governance model, create analytics intake and prioritization processes, deploy a new data access policy and training, prototype new self-service technologies, begin data management work and develop a three year analytics vision and roadmap.

Dr. Britt has over 18 years of experience in information technology, and has been in leadership roles for business and program management, strategic practice/consulting and data analytics. Most recently, she was the Director of Platform services at Intellectual Ventures, a private innovation investment firm, with responsibility for analytics and business intelligence. In prior roles, she led analytic efforts, created business intelligence and knowledge management practices, standardizing processes, data, taxonomies, and enterprise ontologies. She has built and managed multiple teams of data and business analysts responsible for day-to-day management of enterprise data and tools.

Dr. Britt holds a PhD in Computer Science from Washington State University, Beth holds a Certificate in Data Science from UW, Six Sigma Green Belt and is a Certified Data Management Professional. She has served on Advisory Councils at Microsoft, published in various journals/books and spoken at a variety of conferences.