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Christopher
G.
Chute
, MD, DrPH, MPH, AB

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Professor
Christopher Chute

Departmental Affiliations

School of Nursing
Primary
School of Medicine
Primary

Christopher Chute, MD, DrPH, seeks to harmonize observational and protocol-based biomedical data in support of data science and knowledge discovery at scale.

Contact Info

2024 E. Monument Street, Suite 1-202
Baltimore
Maryland
21205
US        

Research Interests

Informatics, Ontology; Medical Concept Representation; Real-world data

Experiences & Accomplishments
Education
DrPH
Harvard University
1990
MD
Brown University
1982
MPH
Harvard University
1982
AB
Brown University
1977
Overview

Dr. Chute is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics, Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing at Johns Hopkins University, and Chief Research Information Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, he is currently president of ACMI. His career has focused on how we can represent clinical information to support analyses and inferencing, including comparative effectiveness analyses, decision support, best evidence discovery, and translational research. He has had a deep interest in semantic consistency, harmonized information models, and ontology. His current research focuses on translating basic science information to clinical practice, and how we classify dysfunctional phenotypes (disease). He became founding Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo in 1988, retiring from Mayo in 2014, where he remains an emeritus Professor of Biomedical Informatics. He is presently PI of the NCATS Translator TransMed grant, coPI of the CTSA Program Data to Health (CD2H), and Deputy Director of the CTSA program at Johns Hopkins. He has been PI on a large portfolio of research including the HHS/Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects) on Secondary EHR Data Use, the ONC Beacon Community (Co-PI), the LexGrid projects, Mayo’s CTSA Informatics, 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. He has been active on many HIT standards efforts and chaired the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 Revision.

Honors & Awards

1980       CIBA Award for Outstanding Community Service, Brown University Program in Medicine
1980       Arnold Fellowship for Research Travel Abroad, Brown University
1981       Charles H. Smith Fellowship, Harvard University
1987       Fellow, American College of Epidemiology
1988       Fellow, American College of Physicians
1995       Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics
1998       Homer Warner Award (AMIA Annual Symposium) Most Outstanding Contrib. [Senior co-author]
2002       President’s Award, American Medical Informatics Association
2015       President Elect, American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)
2015       Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
2017       Fellow, Health Level 7 (HL7)
2017       Inaugural Fellow, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics

2019      Microsoft Innovation Award: Transform the Care Continuum and Reimagine Health [co-recipient]

2021      Distinguished Alumni Award, Mayo Clinic

2022      Elected Member, Association of American Physicians 

 2022     FedHealthIT Innovation Award (with N3C)

 2022     Distinguished Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics

2023      DataWorks! Challenge Grand Prize: Democratizing Access to Clinical Data; NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (with N3C)

2023     HHS Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service (with N3C)

2024     William W. Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

2024     Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine

 

Select Publications
Projects
International Classification of Disease Revision (ICD11)