Speakers
KeyNote Speaker: A National Perspective: Healthcare in the Technology Age (Keynote Address) Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH |
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Dr. Chute received his undergraduate and medical training at Brown University, internal medicine residency at Dartmouth, and doctoral training in Epidemiology at Harvard. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Epidemiology, and the American College of Medical Informatics. He became founding Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo in 1988, stepping down after 20 years in that role. He is now Professor of Medical Informatics, and is PI on a large portfolio of research including the HHS/Office of the National Coordinator SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects) on Secondary EHR Data Use, the LexGrid projects, Mayo’s CTSA Informatics, Mayo’s Cancer Center Informatics including caBIG, and several NIH grants including one of the eMERGE centers from NGHRI, which focus upon genome wide association studies against shared phenotypes derived from electronic medical records. |
| Dr. Chute serves as Vice Chair of the Mayo Clinic Data Governance for Health Information Technology Standards, and on Mayo’s enterprise IT Oversight Committee. He is presently Chair, ISO Health Informatics Technical Committee (ISO TC215) and Chairs the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 Revision. He also serves on strategic advisory panels to NCRR and NHGRI within NIH, and the Health Information Technology Standards Committee for the Office of the National Coordinator in the US DHHS. Recently held positions include Chair of the Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics study section at NIH, Chair of the Board of the HL7/FDA/NCI/CDISC BRIDG project, on the Board of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), ANSI Health Information Standards Technology Panel (HITSP) Board member, Chair of the US delegation to ISO TC215 for Health Informatics, Convener of Healthcare Concept Representation WG3 within the (TC215), Co-chair of the HL7 Vocabulary Committee, Chair of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) WG6 on Medical Concept Representation, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Board member, and multiple other NIH biomedical informatics study sections as chair or member. |
