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La Jolla, CA-based UC San Diego Health Sciences Appointed Christopher Longhurst as Chief Information Officer
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UC San Diego Health Sciences has long been known as a place where discoveries are made. Today, we are known as a place where discoveries are delivered. UC San Diego Health Sciences encompasses the School of Medicine, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and UC San Diego Health System, including UC San Diego Medical Center, in Hillcrest; and in La Jolla, Thornton Hospital, Moores Cancer Center, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center; and other centers, primary and specialty practices of the UC San Diego Medical Group faculty physicians. As a top-tier academic medical center, its role is to provide leadership in improving health through research, education and patient care. UC San Diego Health Sciences has long been at the forefront of “bench-to-bedside” research, transforming patient care through discovery and innovation leading to new drugs and technologies. It is carried out every day in the hundreds of clinical trials of promising new therapies offered through UC San Diego Health System, and in the drive of our researchers and clinician-scientists who are committed to having a significant impact on patient care. At UC San Diego Health Sciences, there are many discoveries on our horizon. Our commitment is to continue our quest to cure disease, seek better treatments and train the next generation of physicians and scientists.
About the Person
Christopher Longhurst will also oversee the creation of a comprehensive information strategy to meet future needs of the health system along with developing and implementing a common set of processes for creating standards, architectures and policies for information technologies across the university and with the UC system. He will work as part of the planning, governance, and oversight process for information technology on campus and within UC Health. Additionally, Dr. Longhurst will be a faculty member in the new Department of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Longhurst holds degrees from UC San Diego and UC Davis. At Stanford Children’s Health, he led strategic efforts to improve children’s health and provider workflow using information technology. He also founded and led the clinical informatics fellowship at Stanford. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications on how technology and data can improve patient care and outcomes and was elected as a fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics, among other distinctions. He is a board-certified pediatrician and clinical informaticist.
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