MEMORANDUM


TO:      College of Medicine Faculty and Staff


FROM: Andrew T. Filak Jr., MD

             Senior Vice President for Health Affairs 

             Christian R. Holmes Professor and Dean

             College of Medicine


DATE:  August 31, 2022


RE:      Department of Biomedical Informatics

I am pleased to announce that Umberto Tachinardi, MD, will begin serving as Interim Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics on Thursday, Sept. 1.

 

Dr. Tachinardi came to Cincinnati on June 1 as Chief Health Digital Officer, Associate Dean for Health Informatics and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the College of Medicine and as Vice President and Chief Health Digital Officer for UC Health. Previously, Dr. Tachinardi was Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of the Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis and Assistant Dean for Clinical Informatics and Professor of Biostatistics at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Administration of the Department of Biomedical Informatics aligns very strongly with the digital information and strategy work that Dr. Tachinardi has been doing for the college and UC Health. Additionally, his many years of leadership experience and his international reputation in biomedical informatics makes him an ideal person to lead the department. His immediate plans include preparing a new mission statement for the department, exploring new collaborative efforts with other departments and programs and beginning the work to recruit new faculty.


I would like to sincerely thank Mario Medvedovic, PhD, who has served as Interim Chair of the department since February 2020. He has had a strong stabilizing influence on the department since assuming leadership responsibilities and I greatly appreciate his efforts and willingness to accept this role. Dr. Medvedovic will return to his activities as Professor in the Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences and as Director of the Center for Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Services.


Please join me in congratulating Dr. Tachinardi and expressing our gratitude to Dr. Medvedovic.

 


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