Srinivasan Suresh, MD, MBA, FAAP
Srinivasan Suresh, MD, MBA, FAAP, is the Director of the Division of Health Informatics in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is a Professor of Pediatrics and is also faculty in the Division of Emergency Medicine. Additionally, he serves as the Chief Information Officer, Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and Vice President at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Suresh is a physician executive with a business degree, and experience and achievements as a senior leader in two large children’s hospitals in the areas of clinical care, information science, medical education, business development, and corporate strategy. As the CMIO at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, he leads multi-disciplinary teams in the application of advanced business intelligence to measurably improve health care for children. As a pediatric researcher, he is focused on implementing robust clinical decision support tools to improve quality outcomes and control costs. He has presented and published extensively in the fields of medical education, childhood emergencies, quality and patient safety, health information technology, machine learning, and predictive analytics. His scholarly work spans epidemiology, diagnostic techniques, therapeutic tools, clinical pathways, and value-based care. Lately, he is focused on applications that integrate artificial intelligence into hospital operations, especially in the care of children.
Dr. Suresh is a TEDx speaker and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of “50 hospital and health system CMIOs to know”. In 2023, he was awarded the ‘Healthcare Changemaker Award’ (Senior Executive Category) by the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He serves as the Chair of the Council on Clinical Information Technology (COCIT) for the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Pediatric Innovation. He is a past chair of the Medical Informatics Special Interest Group of the Academic Pediatric Association, and of the HIMSS Physician Committee.
Dr. Suresh received his medical degree from the University of Madras, India. He completed his pediatric residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, and earned an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Type of financial relationship:There are no financial relationships to disclose.Date added:08/19/2024Date updated:08/19/2024