Professor of Clinical Pediatrics | Executive Director, Institute for Healthcare Informatics | VP and CMIO, Kaleida Health | CMIO, UBMD, University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

I am a physician scientist and executive who oversees healthcare data strategy, including population health management and data analytics, for the largest healthcare organizations in Western New York. I have more than 20 years of experience in medical management, medical staff leadership, electronic health records, medical informatics and big data research.

I serve as VP and Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) of Kaleida Health, the Executive Director of the University at Buffalo (UB) Institute for Healthcare Informatics (IHI), and CMIO of UBMD, the faculty practice of UB physicians. I am also President of the Kaleida Health Medical/Dental Staff and am a Certified Medical Staff Leader.

As VP and CMIO of Kaleida Health, the largest healthcare system in Western New York with over 2000 providers and greater than $2B in revenue, I provide strategic direction for the integration strategy for all forms of healthcare data, including electronic health records (EHRs), population health management tools and financial datasets. I am charged with determining the optimum methods for collecting and analyzing data to support value-based care. Kaleida’s primary technology vendor is Cerner. Kaleida is a HIMSS Stage 6 awardee. In my role of CMIO for UBMD, which is part of a close partnership between UB and Kaleida Health, I have operational responsibility for the UBMD EHR (Allscripts Touchworks) for over 500 UB physicians, residents and students.

I also direct the IHI, which is the healthcare data research facility at UB. The IHI supports big data healthcare research at UB and its partners by providing a secure computing environment, data science and security consulting, and extensive healthcare datasets. The IHI opened in 2012 with funding through portions of $25 million in NYS HEAL grants. The IHI is located in the heart of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and provides a secure data center with a state-of-the-art data repository infrastructure (>1M patient records). The IHI is a principal component of the $50 million NYS Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics (BIG). It also supports the UB CTSA award by providing data serves such as i2b2 and TrinetX. The IHI is part of the ACT network. I serve as Co-Director, Recruitment of Research Participants on the CTSA.

My particular academic interest is ethical issues in informatics. I am a long-time member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), past chair of the AMIA Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Working Group and past chair of the AMIA Ethics Committee.

I have served the Kaleida Health Medical Staff for many years and was elected President in 2016. I have worked to improve and streamline Medical Staff processes, including helping to implement our Peer Review Committee. I am currently focusing on the areas of physician leadership, professionalism and burnout.

I am a Board-certified Pediatrician and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics whose clinical career was focused on children in inner-city Buffalo, New York.

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Bio posted October 2020

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