CLINICAL INFORMATICS FELLOWSHIP FACULTY
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CLINICAL INFORMATICS FELLOWSHIP FACULTY
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has more board certified physicians in Clinical Informatics than any other institution. Our faculty members are representative of all operational areas including practicing clinicians, research principal investigators, and institutional leaders. LEADERSHIP 3 Anthony Luberti, MD 3 Mark Diltz, EdD, MBA 3 FACULTY 4 L. Charles Bailey, MD, PhD 4 Christopher Bonafide, MD, MSCE 4 Sansanee Craig, MD, 5 Bimal Desai, MD, MBI 5 Alexander Fiks, MD, MSCE 6 Robert Grundmeier, MD 6 Eli Lourie, MD 7 Brooke Luo, MD 7 Amrom Obstfeld, MD, PhD 8 Michael Padula, MD, MBI 8 Eric Shelov, MD 9 Joseph Zorc, MD, MSCE 9 AFFILIATE FACULTY 10 Daria Ferro, MD 10 Dean Karavite, MS 10 Naveen Muthu, MD 11 Marc Tobias, MD 11
Anthony Luberti, MD
Medical Director, Informatics Education
Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Clinical Informatics Program Director
Dr. Luberti leads the Department of Biomedical a popular annual all-day healthcare informatics
and Health Informatics (DBhi) Education pro- symposium, curriculum-focused informatics
gram as its medical director and is the program initiatives, and collaborations with informatics
director for CHOP’s Clinical Informatics Fel- programs throughout the Philadelphia area and
lowship program. He serves in a variety of other beyond. Dr. Luberti received his MD from the Uni-
roles at CHOP, including medical director of both versity of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine and
CHOP’s nurse call center and EpicCare’s ambu- completed his pediatric residency at St. Christo-
latory electronic medical record program for the pher’s Hospital and fellowship in Faculty Devel-
CHOP Care Network. Dr. Luberti is also active in opment at Thomas Jefferson University. He also
the practice of pediatric medicine at the Hospital’s holds a master’s degree in Information Science
primary care centers by serving as the attending and is board-certified in clinical informatics. He is
physician and preceptor for pediatric medical res- also an adjunct professor for Temple University’s
idents. In his tenure with DBHi, he has established health informatics post-graduate program.
a robust array of seminar and colloquial series,
Mark Diltz, EdD, MBA
Coordinator, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Principal, Informatics Education
Mark Diltz manages the daily operation of DBHi’s In addition, Dr. Diltz has promoted informatics
Education program by executing on its long-term education strategic initiatives to colleagues
strategy. In his tenure with DBHi, Mark manages within CHOP’s information services and clinical
the operations of the Clinical Informatics informatics domains. Mark received his EdD from
Fellowship program at CHOP. He also supervised Widener University and holds master’s degrees in
the formation of DBHi’s informatics certificate business administration from LaSalle University
program, organized and recruited speakers for and managerial science from Marywood
seminars, colloquia, journal clubs, and symposia, University. He is an adjunct professor for Temple
and forged strong relationships with other University’s health informatics post-graduate
education-focused informatics organizations. program.
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L. Charles Bailey, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Data Acquisition Rotation - Course Director
Dr. Bailey is a member of the divisions of clinical implications of information gathered
Oncology, Hematology and DBHi. His clinical from different sources, and to provide support to
focus is on leukemia and lymphoma. He also clinicians to use this information more effectively.
works on improving the quality of supportive He sits on the CHOP’s Clinical Decision Support
care for children with cancer and serves as part committee, and the Division of Oncology’s
of the steering committee for the division’s chemotherapy safety and quality improvement
Leukemia/Lymphoma Group. Dr. Bailey’s committees. He received his MD from the
research centers on the development of learning University of Pennsylvania and is board certified
health systems including the creation of methods in hematology and clinical informatics.
to share data across hospitals, to recognize the
Christopher Bonafide, MD, MSCE
Core Faculty,
Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness
Clinical Research Informatics Rotation –
Course Director
Dr. Bonafide is an academic hospitalist in the solutions to the problem of alarm fatigue. He
Division of General Pediatrics and member of made important contributions in the area of
DBHi. In addition to his appointment as assistant rapid response systems and physiologic monitor
professor of Pediatrics at the University of alarm fatigue, and he developed an international
Pennsylvania, he serves as a core faculty member reputation as an expert in hospital patient safety
with CHOP’s Center for Pediatric Clinical research. Dr. Bonafide received his MD from the
Effectiveness. Dr. Bonafide’s research focuses Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
on discovering the best methods to identify and MSCE from the University of Pennsylvania.
and respond to deteriorating patients in the He is board-certified in pediatrics and clinical
hospital, including the establishment of effective informatics.
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Sansanee Craig, MD
Clinical Instructor, Digital Health Equity
Dr. Craig comes to Children’s Hospital of health disparities, and global health, especially
Philadelphia from Johns Hopkins Hospital medical education in Southeast Asia. She
Bayview where she was on staff as an attending earned a bachelor’s degree from the University
physician and pediatric hospitalist since of Rochester and her medical degree in Israel
completing her residency in pediatrics from at Ben Gurion University, a four-year medical
the University of Minnesota in 2015. A quality school program with a longitudinal curriculum in
improvement project as a senior resident sparked global health where she was an advocate for Thai
her interest in clinical informatics and health migrant workers. Dr. Craig’s informatics focus is
systems sciences. Dr. Craig holds dual US/Thai in the areas of quality improvement and global
citizenship and is passionate about pediatric health.
hospital medicine, clinical informatics, reducing
Bimal Desai, MD, MBI
Chief Medical Information Officer
Clinical Informatics Leadership Rotation –
Course Director
Dr. Desai is Chief Medical Informatics Officer at privacy officers fulfill the promise of patient
CHOP and director of the healthcare software privacy monitoring. Dr. Desai holds appointments
development group. He currently oversees a on the faculties of both the Perelman School
multi-year project to implement and optimize of Medicine and the Institute for Biomedical
components of a comprehensive electronic health Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania.
record and is also involved in numerous clinical He received his MD from Washington University
informatics initiatives. He is a member of the in St. Louis and completed his MS with Oregon
Department of Pediatrics and DBHi. He also co- Health and Science University. He is board
founded Haystack Informatics to help hospital certified in pediatrics and clinical informatics.
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Alexander Fiks, MD, MSCE
Associate Director,
Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness
Associate Director,
Pediatric Research Consortium
Informatics Capstone Project – Course Director
Dr. Fiks is a primary care pediatrician and broadly. With the American Academy of Pediatrics
an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Pediatric Research in Office Settings Network,
Perelman School of Medicine at the University which he directs, Dr. Fiks has been involved in
of Pennsylvania and CHOP. Board certified in building the Collaborative Electronic Reporting
clinical informatics, his research aims to improve for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER2),
outcomes for ambulatory pediatric patients an electronic health record database designed
through practice-based research with a focus to support pharmacoepidemiologic and other
on improving health and healthcare decision- comparative effectiveness studies that currently
making through health information technology. includes >1.2 million US children from across
To achieve these goals, much of Dr. Fiks’ research multiple health systems. He is also the Co-Medical
focused on fostering shared decision making Director for the Pediatric Research Consortium
between clinicians and families, especially in the (PeRC), CHOP’s practice-based research network,
setting of behavioral health conditions. He is also Associate Director of CHOP’s Center for Pediatric
especially interested in how electronic health Clinical Effectiveness (CPCE), a founding member
record data may best be used to improve primary of DBHi, and faculty in PolicyLab. He actively
care, medication use, and child health more mentors multiple faculty and academic fellows.
Robert Grundmeier, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Director and Section Chief of Clinical Informatics
Clinical Decision Support Rotation –
Course Director
Dr. Grundmeier joined CHOP in 1997 as a resident secondary use in clinical and genomics research
after receiving his MD from the University of and provides consultation, data reporting, and
Pennsylvania. He currently practices medicine honest broker services to researchers who need
in the South Philadelphia primary care office to extract data from the electronic health record.
and, since 2006, has served as DBHi’s clinical Dr. Grundmeier is also a founding member of
informatics director. Dr. Grundmeier’s informatics the Pediatric Research Consortium (PeRC), a
work focuses on the expansion of the electronic DBHi-led group that facilitates electronic health
health record interface to deliver interventions and record-mediated research within CHOP’s dozens
decision support directly to healthcare providers of primary care practices across the region. He also
within the clinical setting. He is board certified in holds a bachelor’s in aeronautical and astronautical
clinical informatics and is considered a national engineering from the Massachusetts Institute
expert in the repurposing of clinical data for of Technology.
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Eli Lourie, MD
EHR Clinical Champion for Specialty Care,
Quality Improvement and Meaningful Use
Clinical Informatics Ambulatory Rotation –
Course Director
Dr. Lourie is a clinical informaticist and an improving the quality of healthcare through
attending pediatrician for Children’s Hospital’s practice-based metrics at the enterprise level. Dr.
South Philadelphia primary care practice, and Lourie earned his MD from Case Western Reserve
is an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics University, he and holds a bachelor’s degree from
at the University of Pennsylvania School Of Tufts University and a master’s in biomedical
Medicine. His informatics interests lie in the informatics from the Oregon Health Sciences
two key areas of clinical decision support and University.
Brooke Luo, MD
Clinical Instructor, Health IT Patient Safety
Dr. Luo discovered clinical informatics through an leader of the New Epic Resident Development
elective during her internship at CHOP. Clinical (NERD) Squad. She is co-author of a paper about
informatics served as the perfect bridge between informatics education during residency that
her interests in problem-solving, technology, and appeared in Applied Clinical Informatics. She
medicine. During her pediatric residency, she completed her medical training at University of
created clickable inpatient discharge instructions Oklahoma College of Medicine and undergraduate
for common admission diagnoses and hosted a work in biomedical engineering at Duke
resident Hackathon to facilitate identifying and University. Her informatics interests are in the
solving workflow problems. Dr. Luo was also a areas of clinical decision support and innovation.
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Amrom Obstfeld, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine
Dr. Obstfeld became a member of DBHi in 2016. MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology Columbia University and his PhD in Physiology
and Laboratory Medicine at the University of from Columbia University. He completed his post-
Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine doctoral training and residency in the Department
and the Assistant Director of Hematology and of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the
Coagulation Laboratories at the Children’s Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Hospital of Philadelphia. Amrom received his
Michael Padula, MD, MBI
Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics
Clinical Informatics Champion for Neonatology
HIE/Clinical Standards Rotation –
Course Director
Dr. Padula is medical director of Informatics for he is co-chair of the of Health Level Seven (HL7)
the Division of Neonatology at CHOP, and an Child Health Work Group, contributing to
associate professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the interoperability standards for Electronic Health
Perelman School of Medicine at the University Record Functional Profiles and Clinical Document
of Pennsylvania. He is actively involved in the Architecture used in quality reporting and health
education and training of medical students, information exchange. Regionally, Dr. Padula
residents and fellows. His clinical interests include serves on the Technical Standards Committee
prediction and detection of neonatal infections, of the HealthShare Exchange of Southeastern
neonatal resuscitation, and neurodevelopmental Pennsylvania (HSX of SE PA), a collaborative
outcome. He is also a clinical informaticist with initiative supporting the development of a Health
interests in standards and interoperability, data Information Exchange among the acute care
modeling, and clinical decision support. Dr. hospitals and healthcare plans of the Greater
Padula serves on the executive committee of Philadelphia region. He earned his undergraduate
the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium degree from the Princeton University and
(CHNC), which focuses on improving outcomes his medical degree from Jefferson Medical
for infants receiving care at tertiary Neonatal College and also holds a master’s in biomedical
ICUs, and created the Children’s Hospitals informatics from Oregon Health & Science
Neonatal Database (CHND) in conjunction with University. He is board certified in pediatrics and
the Children’s Hospital Association. Additionally, neonatal-perinatal medicine.
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Eric Shelov, MD
Electronic Health Record Medical Director for
Inpatient Care
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer
Clinical Informatics Inpatient Rotation –
Course Director
As CHOP’s Associate Chief Health Informatics hospitalist and dedicates his time to both teaching
Officer, Dr. Shelov focuses on optimizing the and non-teaching services. He received his
electronic health record, developing clinical bachelor’s from Yale University, MD from Albert
decision support for quality improvement Einstein College of Medicine, and completed
initiatives, and promoting electronic health record his master’s in in biomedical informatics from
development that is in-line with emerging best Oregon Health and Science University in 2016. Dr.
practices. Within DBHi, he is a faculty member Shelov completed his residency at CHOP in 2009
in the Clinical Informatics fellowship program. and is board certified in pediatrics and clinical
He is also the medical director for the Inpatient informatics.
Electronic Health Record. Dr. Shelov is a pediatric
Joseph Zorc, MD, MSCE
Professor, Pediatrics
Endowed Chair in Informatics
Clinical Informatics Champion for Emergency
Medicine
Clinical Informatics Acute/ED Rotation –
Course Director
Dr. Zorc is an attending physician in the fellowship. In addition to a master’s degree in
Emergency Department, Director of Emergency epidemiology, he has formal training in quality
Information Systems, holder of the Mark Fishman improvement, and his interests lie at the
Endowed Chair in Genomics and Computational intersection of clinical research, informatics. and
Science at CHOP, and a professor of Pediatrics quality improvement, with a particular focus on
at the University of Pennsylvania. He is board acute care. Dr. Zorc completed his undergraduate
certified in clinical informatics and has over 20 degree from Harvard University and earned his
years of experience implementing information MD from Columbia. Both his pediatrics residency
systems at CHOP, and a more recent passion for and fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine
training future informatics leaders as a faculty were at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
member for the DBHi Clinical Informatics
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Daria Ferro, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Instructor, Informatics Quality Improvement
Dr. Ferro served as chief pediatric resident at and is board certified in pediatrics. Dr. Ferro has a
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children prior to bachelor’s from Barnard College in neuroscience
joining DBHi at CHOP as a clinical informatics and behavior and an MD from SUNY Downstate
fellow in 2016. While chief resident, she was College of Medicine. Dr. Ferro is currently
an inaugural member of the hospital’s medical an assistant professor in Pediatrics with the
informatics committee and helped to develop Perelman School of Medicine at the University
the resident informatics committee. She also of Pennsylvania and a DBHi faculty member. Her
served as a member of the institution’s Center clinical informatics interests include utilizing
for Quality, Operational Excellence, and Patient clinical data to optimize the quality and safety of
Safety. She completed her pediatrics residency patient care.
training at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
Dean Karavite, MS
Principal Human Computer Interaction Specialist
Instructor, Human Factors Engineering
Dean Karavite joined CHOP in 2008 after health record. Through his participation on
working in several healthcare informatics these projects and based on his knowledge of
environments at Temple University, IBM, and both clinical and research workflows, he hopes
University of Michigan Hospital. He joined DBHi to improve outcomes, electronic health record
in 2010 to aid in the development of healthcare functionality, and clinician and patient interface
information technology solutions, including usability. He earned a master’s in human
clinical decision support and shared decision- computer interaction from the University of
making tools mediated through CHOP’s electronic Michigan School of Information.
10Naveen Muthu, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Instructor, Cognitive Informatics
Dr. Muthu joined DBHi in 2015 as a clinical making. He completed his fellowship at CHOP in
informatics fellow. He was Doris Duke Clinical clinical informatics in June 2017. Along with co-
Research Fellow at the University of Iowa and fellow Dr. Marc Tobias, Dr. Muthu won multiple
a member of the House Staff Quality Control national awards, including being one of four
at Georgetown University Hospital. Naveen winners in a Provider User Experience Challenge
completed his undergraduate degree in biology at hosted by the Department of Health and Human
Harvard University. He attended medical school Services. Dr. Muthu is a pediatric hospitalist at
at the University of Missouri before going on to CHOP and clinical instructor in pediatrics at
complete residency in internal medicine and University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of
pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital. Medicine. His professional focus in in the area of
Dr. Muthu’s informatics interests revolve cognitive informatics and utility of sociotechnical
around optimizing risk assessment and risk models in explaining health information
communication to improve medical decision technology outcomes.
Marc Tobias, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Instructor, Informatics Innovation
Dr. Tobias completed his undergraduate degree the Phrase Health platform, including being one
in economics at the University of California, of four winners in a Provider User Experience
Berkeley. He attended medical school at the Challenge hosted by the Department of Health
State University of New York Downstate before and Human Services. Following his fellowship,
continuing his training in emergency medicine he founded a governance and analytics software
at Cooper University Hospital. He completed company around the Phrase Health platform
a clinical informatics fellowship at CHOP and participates in clinical decision support
where he focused on electronic health record research. Additionally, Dr. Tobias continues to
interoperability and clinical decision support. engage clinically as an adjunct assistant professor
Along with his colleague, Dr. Naveen Muthu, he of Emergency Medicine at the University of
won multiple national awards for his work on Pennsylvania.
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