Clinical Informatics Lecture Series

Trials and Tribulations of Data Conversion: Case Studies from an Enterprise EHR transition

Jonathan Hron, MD 

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Dr. Hron attended medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. He continued on as a Chief Resident at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he began practicing Clinical Informatics. As a faculty member he has devoted his career to improving systems of care through the implementation of information technology, including electronic health records, HIPAA compliant text communication systems, telehealth and artificial intelligence. He is a staunch advocate for data driven decision making in clinical informatics as well as the secondary use of clinical data for research and quality improvement. In 2015 he co-founded the Boston Children’s Hospital Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program, one of the first ACGME approved pediatric Clinical Informatics training programs in the country. Clinically, Dr. Hron cares for hospitalized patients on the general pediatrics and complex care services at Boston Children's.

Dana A. Schinasi, MD, MSHI

Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

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Dana Aronson Schinasi, MD MSHI is an attending physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.  She is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer and Medical Director of Digital Health at Lurie Children's Hospital. In these roles, she is responsible for leading the clinical, quality, education, research, and advocacy initiatives at the intersection of clinical care and technology, to eliminate inefficiencies, optimize safety and quality of care delivery, and enhance user experience. She works collaboratively with Information Management leadership to oversee strategy, policy development, organization, education, and direction for all institutional digital health activities. Dr. Schinasi has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and given many national and international presentations on digital health topics.  

Dr. Schinasi received her undergraduate degrees in Economics and Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where she went on to obtain her Medical Degree. She completed a residency in Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, during which time she completed a certificate program in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. While on faculty, she completed the Executive Fellowship in Innovation Health Leadership at the Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Most recently, she completed a master’s in Health Informatics at Northwestern University, with a Health Administration Informatics specialization. 

Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP

Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy

National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (Acting)

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Micky Tripathi is the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and Acting Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he leads the formulation of HHS technology and data strategy and coordinates technology policies, standards, programs, and investments.

Dr. Tripathi has over 20 years of experience across the health IT landscape. Prior to joining the federal government he served as Chief Alliance Officer for Arcadia, a health care data and software company focused on population health management and value-based care, the project manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR, and a board member of HL7, the Sequoia Project, the CommonWell Health Alliance, and the CARIN Alliance.

Dr. Tripathi served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company. He was also the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a statewide HIE partnered with the Regenstrief Institute, an Executive Advisor to investment firm LRVHealth, and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

He holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a Presidential Management Fellow and a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal.

Pediatric Cancer Data Commons

Samuel Volchenboum, MD, PhD

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Dr. Volchenboum is a professor of pediatrics and the associate chief research informatics officer for the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the Associate Dean of Masters Programs, and he designed and launched the UChicago Master’s in Biomedical Informatics. His clinical specialty is pediatric hematology / oncology, caring for kids with cancer and blood diseases. His research group includes the University of Chicago’s Data for the Common Good (D4CG), dedicated to building communities, platforms, and ecosystems that maximize the potential of data to drive discovery and improve human health. D4CG’s flagship project, the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons is dedicated to liberating and democratizing international data for pediatric malignancies. He is the director of the Informatics Core for the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), and he is director of the UChicago Clinical Informatics fellowship program. 

Liquid AI: Precision Hematology Diagnostics

Gregory Goldgof, MD, PhD, MS

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Dr. Gregory Goldgof, MD, PhD, MS, is an Assistant Member at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine. At MSK, he serves as the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Hematopathology within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Board-certified in Clinical Informatics and Clinical Pathology, Dr. Goldgof holds advanced degrees in Computer Science, Bioengineering, Biomedical Sciences, and Biology. His research focuses on developing AI-driven tools to enhance diagnostic precision and predict outcomes in hematology and oncology.

Dr. Gregory Goldgof's research leverages artificial intelligence to advance precision diagnostics in hematology, with a focus on liquid-based specimens such as peripheral blood smears and bone marrow aspirates. His lab develops AI-driven tools and is advancing towards their clinical validation and deployment, integrating diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers to improve patient care and outcomes.

A Tale of Two Epic Go Lives

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Terrance Lee, MD, MPH	Chase Parsons, DO, MBI
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer,  Beth Israel Lahey Health	Chief Medical Information Officer Boston Children's Hospital

Incorporating Simulation and Human Factors into an Enterprise EHR Transition

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Jonathan Hron, MD, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer of Boston Children's Hospital, and members of the Boston Children's Hospital Immersive Design Systems Team

Nirav Shah, MD, MPH

Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, AI and Innovation

Director of Investigational Innovation at Endeavor Health

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Nirav Shah, MD, MPH is a practicing infectious disease physician who also serves as the Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, AI and Innovation and the Director of Investigational Innovation at Endeavor Health, a 9 hospital integrated health system in the metropolitan Chicagoland area. He drives the strategic development and responsible implementation of AI and digital solutions, ensuring their effective integration into clinical practice and contributing to scholarly advancement. He also runs a clinical trials group with a focus on infectious diseases and early stage AI/digital solutions. He has received internal and external grants and has reviewed grant proposals for national funding agencies. He is an experienced speaker at national conferences and has published widely in reputable journals including NEJM, JAMA, JAMIA and CID. He is an assistant clinical professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and is committed to mentoring the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD

Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics & Digital Transformation (DoC-IT)

Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

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Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics & Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) at UCSF.

Dr. Adler-Milstein is a leading researcher in health IT policy, with a specific focus on electronic health records and interoperability. She has examined policies and organizational strategies that enable effective use of electronic health records and promote interoperability. She is also an expert in EHR audit log data and its application to studying clinician behavior. Her research – used by researchers, health systems, and policymakers – identifies obstacles to progress and ways to overcome them. 

She has published over 250 influential papers, testified before the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, been named one of the top 10 influential women in health IT, and won numerous awards, including the New Investigator Award from the American Medical Informatics Association and the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth. She has served on an array of influential committees and boards, including the NHS National Advisory Group on Health Information Technology, the Health Care Advisory Board for Politico, and the Interoperability Committee of the National Quality Forum. 

Dr. Adler-Milstein holds a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard and spent six years on the faculty at University of Michigan prior to joining UCSF as a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the inaugural director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research in 2017. She became the inaugural Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation in 2023.

Adam Yan, MD, MBI, FRCPC, FAAP

Oncology Informatics Lead,

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), University of Toronto

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Adam completed his pediatric residency and pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), followed by a clinical informatics fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital and a Masters of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Adam currently practices as a pediatric oncologist specializing in the care of children with leukemia and lymphoma at SickKids. In addition, Adam is one of the first and only fellowship trained clinical informatacists in Canada. Adam is the Vice-Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's new committee to develop formalized certification in Clinical Informatics. His informatics interests include data analytics, patient engagement, and clinical decision support. 

Fostering a data-driven culture through data literacy and governance

Hojjat Salmasian, MD, MPH, PhD

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Dr Hojjat Salmasian is Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He is a Primary Care Physician by background, an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, and an elected Fellow of American Medical Informatics Association. He oversees the data and analytics strategy at CHOP and supervises the teams that lead data and analytics services, data platforms, data governance, and advanced analytics and data science. He also chairs the AI Governance Committee at CHOP. Dr Salmasian is a health IT safety researcher with more than 70 scientific publications.

Clinical Decision Support: An Improvement Science and Human Factors-Based Approach

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Swaminathan Kandaswamy, PhD	Julia Yarahuan, MD
Assistant Professor Director of Human Factors in Information System Design Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics	Medical Director of Clinical Decision Support Operations Pediatric Hospitalist Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. Swaminathan Kandaswamy is Assistant Professor and Director of Human Factors in Information System Design at Emory University Department of Pediatrics. His goal is to achieve better patient outcomes, improved experience for patients and clinicians, reduced costs, and healthcare sustainability through the widespread adoption of human factors methods to the design of health information technology and clinical workflow. 

Dr. Julie Yarahuan is the Medical Director of Clinical Decision Support Operations and a pediatric hospitalist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Emory School of Medicine. Her work focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of clinical decision support and other technology solutions to improve healthcare quality, access, and safety for pediatric patients.

Two EHR medication safety issues in the wild: The vendor perspective on antecedents and responses

Ethan D. Gershon, MD

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Developing, marketing, implementing, and supporting a nationally- or globally-deployed commercial EHR requires a vendor to be a large organization with its own needs, constraints, processes, and viewpoints. When a hospital using their EHR raises a potential medication safety issue with electronic prescribing, the vendor’s perspective on antecedents to the issue and responses to it will necessarily be different from the hospital’s as a result of the vendor’s own processes and viewpoints.  This presentation explores two real-world medication issues and how the vendor views both the hospital’s behavior and its own.

Ethan D. Gershon, MD is a physician informaticist with over 20 years of full-time experience in clinical informatics.  During that time, Dr. Gershon has worked for both health IT vendors and healthcare providers.  He has held numerous roles including product manager, physician executive, chief medical informatics officer, executive director, and clinical safety officer.  Much of his career has focused on serving healthcare providers outside the United States, including 8 years living and working abroad.  Dr. Gershon received his M.D. from New York University and his B.A. from Harvard University.

Climate Health Informatics

Chethan Sarabu, MD, FAMIA, FAAP

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Chethan Sarabu, MD, FAMIA, FAAP, trained in landscape architecture, pediatrics, and clinical informatics, builds anastomoses across these fields to design healthier environments and systems. He is the inaugural Director of Clinical Innovation for the Health Tech Hub at Cornell Tech. Over the past six years, he has been a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford Medicine and has worked in the health tech industry as Head of Product, Director of Clinical Informatics, and Medical Director at doc.ai and later Sharecare. He collaborates with the OpenNotes Lab as an AI & Informatics Strategist and serves as a board member of The Light Collective. Across these roles, he has designed and implemented a wide array of innovations, including patient portals, EHR transformation, virtual clinical trials, AI-driven digital biomarkers, documentation, and health information policy initiatives, all through a lens of health equity and patient transparency.

He co-founded CHILL, the Climate Health Innovation & Learning Lab, to connect the dots between climate, health, and the tech innovation community. As a shaper of the emergent field of climate health informatics, he has given multiple presentations on the topic at grand rounds and informatics symposia and is the Vice-Chair of the AMIA Climate, Health, and Informatics Working Group. 

Machine Translation

Joss Moorkens, PhD

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Joss Moorkens is an Associate Professor at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies in Dublin City University (DCU), Science Lead at the ADAPT Centre, a member of DCU’s Institute of Ethics and Centre for Translation and Textual Studies, and board member at the European Masters in Translation Network. He has published over 60 articles, chapters and papers on the topics of translation technology interaction and evaluation, translator precarity, and translation ethics. He is General Coeditor of the journal Translation Spaces, coeditor of a number of books and journal special issues, and coauthor of the textbooks Translation Tools and Technologies (Routledge 2023) and Automating Translation (Routledge 2025).