Joel Saltz Appointed as Emory Healthcare’s Chief Medical Information Officer

In a previous note, I reported Fred Sanfilippo's departure from Ohio State (see: Fred Sanfilippo, Noted Pathologist, Moves to Emory). Joel Saltz, a leader in pathology informatics, is now making a similar move to Atlanta (see: Bioinformatics Pioneer Will Lead New Initiatives at Emory University). He currently serves as professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, Davis Endowed Chair of Cancer at OSU, and a senior fellow of the Ohio Supercomputer Center. Below is an excerpt from the article:

Joel H. Saltz, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the fields of high-performance computing and biomedical informatics, will join Emory University’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center in September as director of the Center for Comprehensive Informatics and as Emory Healthcare’s Chief Medical Information Officer. The announcement was made by Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD, Emory executive vice president for health affairs, CEO of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and chairman of Emory Healthcare....As chief medical information officer for Emory Healthcare, Saltz will direct strategic planning and implementation of the comprehensive Emory Medical Information Enterprise. He will guide recruitment, research and resource allocation for informatics programs across academic departments. Additionally, he will lead the further development of Emory’s external partnerships in bioinformatics, including those with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Morehouse School of Medicine, the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Georgia Research Alliance and the Georgia Cancer Coalition.