Blackford Middleton

Greater Nashville Area, MA United States

Member - Health Informatics Accreditation Council at CAHIIM

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

Blackford Middleton currently is Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Previously, he was a Professor of Biomedical Informatics, and/or of Medicine, at Stanford, Harvard, and Vanderbilt Universities. Dr. Middleton’s work is focused on clinical informatics – the applied science surrounding the design, implementation, and evaluation of clinical information systems in complex environments. From 2013-2014, he was Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Chief Informatics Officer (CIO) at Vanderbilt. During this time he implemented a comprehensive organizational and process redesign to better achieve world-class soft