The Clinical and Health Informatics (CHI) graduate programs based within the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) are pleased to announce a new faculty director, Anoop Mayampurath, PhD.
As of July 1, Dr. Mayampurath will focus on six strategic priorities to ensure the program’s continued quality and growth: curriculum and academic quality, assessment and academic standards, faculty and academic engagement, external and professional engagement, student experience, and admissions and program visibility.
An assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Dr. Mayampurath is also affiliated with the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine and the Section of Applied Clinical Informatics within the Department of Medicine.
He is an innovator in using data to improve healthcare. Together with his colleagues Dr. Matthew Churpek and Dr. Majid Afshar, he leads the university’s ICU Data Science Lab. The lab develops models to predict outcomes in patients using electronic health record data and machine learning.
Presently, Dr. Mayampurath is a principal investigator on an R01 award from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that focuses on developing a novel, accurate, interpretable, and user-friendly clinical decision support tool for the early detection of pediatric cardiopulmonary deterioration.
Additionally, he was recently awarded an NIH Office of Data Science Strategy OTA grant with co-PI Dr. Afshar to build equitable, stakeholder-driven, multimodal artificial intelligence models to predict patient outcomes among those with substance misuse.
In his role with ICTR’s programs, Dr. Mayampurath will collaborate with CHI Program Director Jack Champeau and CHI Program Manager Rachel Sauer, both of whom have been with the program since its inception in 2020.
About the CHI programs
The CHI graduate programs offer flexible, online options for learners, who can earn a Master of Science degree or a capstone certificate. Students apply their knowledge to advance health care, link technology with human creativity, and turn data into high-impact solutions that drive lasting change.
Notable for their multidisciplinary approach, the programs are built around the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Core Competencies. To date, the CHI programs have produced 48 M.S. graduates. About 25 learners enroll per year.
Dr. Mayampurath assumes the leadership role previously held by Heidi Twedt, MD, who retains her other roles with the UW–Madison School of Medicine & Public Health and UW Health.
Dr. Twedt served as CHI director for five years, since her arrival at UW–Madison as the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for UW Health. She aligned program curriculum with AMIA competencies and helped shepherd the program through a successful five-year review. ICTR thanks Dr. Twedt for her leadership.