Episodes

  • Discover the pivotal role of informatics in public health as experts Dr. Irene Ruberto, Guillermo Adame and podcast co-host Dr. Sanah Ali walk us thru the steps in the disease surveillance process: (1) Infectious Disease Reporting (2) Case Investigation (3) Data Analysis and (4) Data Dissemination. Learn more at https://www.azdhs.gov/

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

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  • In this episode of ACIF Meets Industry, Dr. Stefano Leitner interviews Dr. Jeffrey Krauss, the Chief Medical Officer at Hinge Health.

    About Dr. Krauss:
    Before attending medical school at the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Krauss worked as a product manager for eight years, most notably at eBay, focusing on strategy, innovation, and product research. After medical school, he completed residency training in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Stanford University. Upon completing his residency, he became a medical advisor for a venture capital fund, where he was introduced to Hinge Health, a digital health company focused on musculoskeletal care and virtual physical therapy. He has served as the Chief Medical Officer of Hinge Health since 2018.

    LinkedIn: Dr. Jeffrey Krauss

    2022-2023 ACIF GoLive Committee:
    Sanah Ali, MD (HonorHealth, Arizona)
    Anwar Jebran, MD (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Stefano Leitner, MD, MPH (University of California, San Francisco)
    Scott Ogan, MD (University of California, San Diego)

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

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  • In this episode of ACIF Meets Industry, Dr. Stefano Leitner interviews Dr. Carolyn Jasik, the Chief Medical Officer of Omada Health.

    Dr. Jasik is a board-certified Clinical Informatics physician with experience in both the clinical management of diabetes along with creating digital health solutions for health behavior change. At Omada Health she supports the clinical and research teams to create and test the next generation of diabetes and obesity programming via digital therapeutics. Before joining Omada she worked at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where she directed the implementation of the Epic electronic health record, integrated digital health programming into clinical practice, and conducted clinical trials on health technology. She completed her undergraduate degree in public policy at Princeton University, MD at the University of Chicago, and her research training at UCSF. Dr. Jasik continues to practice primary care at UCSF where she is an Associate Professor of Medicine.

    LinkedIn: Dr. Carolyn Jasik
    Omada Health Resource Center

    2022-2023 ACIF GoLive Committee:
    Sanah Ali, MD (HonorHealth, Arizona)
    Anwar Jebran, MD (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Stefano Leitner, MD, MPH (University of California, San Francisco)
    Scott Ogan, MD (University of California, San Diego)

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode of the Program Director's Corner, Drs. Sanah Ali and Scott Ogan interview Dr. Craig Norquist, the HonorHealth Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program Director.

    2022-2023 ACIF GoLive Committee:
    Sanah Ali, MD (HonorHealth, Arizona)
    Anwar Jebran, MD (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Stefano Leitner, MD, MPH (University of California, San Francisco)
    Scott Ogan, MD (University of California, San Diego)

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode, podcast co-host Dr. Scott Ogan chats with Dr. Marlene Millen on the early days of Clinical informatics to becoming CMIO. Dr. Millen is an Internal Medicine trained Clinical Informaticist at UC San Diego Health. Dr. Millen completed medical school at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and then completed her Internal Medicine residency training at UC San Diego School of Medicine. She currently serves as Chief Medical Information Officer at UC San Diego Health and practices clinically as a Primary Care Internist, and is a Clinical Professor of Medicine. Several of her topics of interest and publications include patient-physician communication, EHR usability, and primary care.

    Discussion topics include:

    Evolution of Clinical Informatics Usability Change management Time management

    2022-2023 ACIF GoLive Committee:
    Sanah Ali, MD (HonorHealth, Arizona)
    Anwar Jebran, MD (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Stefano Leitner, MD, MPH (University of California, San Francisco)
    Scott Ogan, MD (University of California, San Diego)

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode, podcast co-hosts Dr. Sanah Ali and Dr. Anwar Jebran chat with Dr. Russell Leftwich, MD about semantic interoperability. Dr. Leftwich is Senior Clinical Advisor, Interoperability for InterSystems Corporation, a Massachusetts-based globally-utilized vendor of software systems and technology for high-performance database management, rapid application development, integration and healthcare information systems. He has held leadership roles with AMIA, ONC, HL7, FHIR, is former CMIO of Tennessee's Office of E-Health Initiatives, and has a background in engineering and programming. He is also adjunct faculty of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University and Vanderbilt University. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. Our discussion topics include:

    InterSystems productsEHR data storage & types of data exchangeClinical Information ModelsConsolidated Clinical Document Architecture (CCDA)Mapping to interfaces & maintenance of interface engines

    2022-2023 ACIF GoLive Committee:
    Sanah Ali, MD (HonorHealth, Arizona)
    Anwar Jebran, MD (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Stefano Leitner, MD, MPH (University of California, San Francisco)
    Scott Ogan, MD (University of California, San Diego)

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode, podcast co-host Dr. Sanah Ali chats with Dr. Joseph Kannry, MD and Reva Singh, JD to demystify the arena of national advocacy in medical informatics. Dr. Kannry is 2018-2022 chair of AMIA's Public Policy Committee. He works in the Mt. Sinai Health System as Lead Technical Informaticist, EMR Clinical Transformation Group and Internal Medicine faculty physician. Reva Singh is AMIA's Vice President of Public Policy. Our juicy discussion topics include:

    AMIA's policy principles & position statements: https://amia.org/public-policyWashington Download: biweekly newsletterResponses to regulatory RFIs (Request for Information)Most recently, CMS initiative to create a National Provider DirectoryKey federal institutions and Congressional committees with jurisdiction over healthcareStrengthening the Informatics workforceNeed for more accurate patient-provider attributionONC Interoperability Standards & USCDILimitations: State HIE participation cannot be mandated by the federal governmentChallenges to CDS (clinical decision support) interoperability2022 Inflation Reduction Act


    2022-2023 ACIF GoLive Committee:
    Sanah Ali, MD (HonorHealth, Arizona)
    Anwar Jebran, MD (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Stefano Leitner, MD, MPH (University of California, San Francisco)
    Scott Ogan, MD (University of California, San Diego)

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode, podcast co-host Dr. Stefano Leitner (University of California, San Francisco) chats with Dr. Mark Zhang about his journey to the field, practical clinical informatics experience within an academic medical center, and the American Medical Extended Reality Association (AMXRA). Dr. Zhang is a Palliative Care Physician and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Medical Director of the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub, and Associate Program Director of the Partners Clinical Informatics and Innovation Fellowship. Dr. Zhang was also one of the founding members of ACIF.

    2022-2023 ACIF GoLive Committee:
    Sanah Ali, MD (HonorHealth, Arizona)
    Anwar Jebran, MD (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Stefano Leitner, MD, MPH (University of California, San Francisco)
    Scott Ogan, MD (University of California, San Diego)

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode, podcast co-hosts Mackenzie Hofford (2nd year CI fellow, Washington University in St. Louis) and Jayson Marwaha (NLM Informatics fellow, Harvard Medical School)chat with Dr. William Gordon about virtual care and the evolving post-COVID-19 health data ecosystem, with a focus on information security and data accessibility. Dr. Gordon is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, and has written extensively on cybersecurity, data accessibility, and virtual care programs.

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode, podcast co-hosts Mackenzie Hofford (2nd year CI fellow, Washington University in St. Louis), Ed Kalpas (2nd year CI fellow, HonorHealth), and Jayson Marwaha (informatics postdoc, Harvard Medical School) chat with Dr. Karandeep Singh about responsible development, implementation, and evaluation of machine learning models in the context of his recent work examining the Epic Sepsis Model. Dr. Singh is an Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Internal Medicine, Urology, and Information at the University of Michigan, and is a widely-recognized leader in bringing machine learning models to the bedside.Links to Dr. Singh's recent work:- JAMA Internal Medicine paper on the Epic Sepsis Model: https://bit.ly/3pgP6Yd- R/Medicine Conference Keynote Speech (Aug 2021): https://youtu.be/l71wLKUr26E

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode, podcast co-hosts Mackenzie Hofford (2nd year CI fellow, Washington University in St. Louis), Ed Kalpas (2nd year CI fellow, HonorHealth), and Jayson Marwaha (informatics postdoc, Harvard Medical School) chat with Dr. Joseph Kvedar about telemedicine, hospital-at-home, trends in AI and digital medicine research, and more. Dr. Kvedar is a Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, a widely-recognized leader in telemedicine, and the Editor-in-Chief of Nature Digital Medicine, a Nature Partner Journal.

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode, podcast co-hosts Mackenzie Hofford (2nd year CI fellow, Washington University in St. Louis), Ed Kalpas (2nd year CI fellow, HonorHealth), and Jayson Marwaha (informatics postdoc, Harvard Medical School) chat with Dr. Adam Wright about clinical decision support (CDS): design considerations, how to make it better, how AI will affect it, and more. Dr. Wright is a widely recognized leader in the field of CDS, a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and the Director of the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center.

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode of Go Live, Dr. Jane Kim (Chief Consultant for Preventive Medicine, National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, VA) and Dr. Kathryn Cillessen (CHIO, VA North Texas) join the show to discuss the role that informatics is playing in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines at the VA. They chat with Meera Subash (2nd year CI Fellow, UCSF), Colin Purmal (1st year CI Fellow, UCSF), Nathan Yung (1st year CI Fellow, UCSD), and Jayson Marwaha (Informatics research fellow, Harvard Medical School) about challenges and opportunities in using informatics to aid vaccine distribution to VA patients and beyond.

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • In this episode, Bryan McConomy (2nd year CI Fellow, Regenstrief Institute) and Victor Garcia (2nd year CI Fellow, Stony Brook University) talk to Dennis Leber the CISO from The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and we are joined by Meera Subash (2nd year CI fellow, UC San Francisco) for a discussion on the why and how of cybersecurity in healthcare. It is important for Informaticians to have knowledge of the risks that ransomware pose to the operations of a health system and how to be a proactive partner in cybersecurity.Show Notes: Center for Internet Security https://www.cisecurity.org/Dennis Leber LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennisleber/

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • What do physicians and hackers have in common? More than you would think.Nathan Yung (1st year CI fellow, UC San Diego), Ammar Mandvi (1st year CI fellow, UC San Diego) and Meera Subash (2nd year CI fellow, UC San Francisco) discuss the role physicians and healthcare providers can play in preventing cybersecurity attacks and increasing awareness in their home institutions. Interview: Meera Subash and Nathan Yung talk with Christian Dameff, MD, MS (Medical Director of Cybersecurity at UC San Diego and Emergency Medicine Physician) and discuss why cybersecurity awareness is a critical patient safety issue in healthcare and how clinicians can equip themselves with the knowledge and skills to prevent attacks in an increasingly digital world.

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • Jessica Ruff (2nd year CI fellow, MetroHealth), Victor Garcia (2nd year CI fellow, Stony Brook), Bryan McConomy (2nd year CI Fellow, Regenstrief Institute) and Gene Lucas (2nd year CI Fellow, NYP-Columbia) talk about life during the pandemic, how their institutions have responded to the crisis and somehow even talk about vacuums. Interview: Bryan McConomy talks with Brian Dixon, PhD (Regenstrief Institute), Drew Richardson and Beck Learn (Indiana Health Information Exchange) discuss how the information exchange helped to bridge the gap between public health and public health systems in Indiana. (Note: this interview was recorded in April 2020)

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • Hosts: Jennifer Lee, Sam YangProducers: Jenifer LeeGuest Interview: Jeff Hoffman, MD CMIO of Nationwide Children’s HospitalTopics: Customization of EHR, coding, SQL, data structure, how to say “no”

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • Hosts: Eric Puster, Jennifer Lee, Keith MorseProducers: Jennifer LeeGuest Interview: Emily Webber, MD, CMIO of Riley Children’s HospitalTopics: Communication with patients using technology, information blocking, sharing data with patients

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • S2E1: "The Long Version of Lucky Man"Hosts: Chase Parsons, Jennifer Lee, Keith MorseProducers: Chase Parsons, Joshua HerigonGuest Interview: Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of Jefferson Health

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif

  • Episode 15: “Fresh out of Fellowship.”Host: Chase ParsonsCo-hosts: Jake Lancaster, Ben Orwoll, Chethan SarabuTopics: OpenNotes, Life After Fellowship, Tribute to Warner Slack MDGuest Interview: Tom Delbanco, MD, Co-Creator of OpenNotes

    Click here for more information about the AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF)!

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acifellows/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACIFellows
    Website: https://amia.org/communities/amia-clinical-informatics-fellows-acif