Board of Regents
Charge
Advise the Board of Regents, committees and councils on medical informatics and health information technology (HIT), including HIT education, adoption, incorporation in practice, and use to improve the quality, safety and affordability of patient care.
Composition (13)
Chair; Vice-Chair who is a Governor; 11 members, including one early career physician and one resident/fellow member. The Vice Chair position may be filled by a non-Governor based on the current committee composition and anticipated needs/skill sets of the committee.
Terms
Chair, Vice Chair, and members serve one-year terms renewable up to three times for a total of four years, unless extended by the Chair, Board of Regents. The early career physician and resident/fellow member positions are appointed according to the BOR-approved policy for council appointments.
2023-24 Members
Deepti Pandita, MBBS, FACP, FAMIA, Chair
Chief Health Information Officer
Hennepin Healthcare
Plymouth, MN
Specialty: Internal Medicine
panditad@hs.uci.edu
Parag H. Mehta, MD, MACP, Vice Chair
Assistant Professor Cornell Medicine
Senior Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine
Chief Medical Information Officer
New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Brooklyn, NY
Specialties: Internal Medicine, Hospitalist
drparagmehta@gmail.com
Jitendra Barmecha, MBBS, MD, MPH, FACP
Senior Vice President - Chief Information & Digital Strategy Officer
SBH Health System
Bronx, NY
Specialty: Internal Medicine
jbarmecha@sbhny.org
Elisa I. Choi, MD, FACP, FIDSA (Regent)
Chief of Internal Medicine
HVMA Somerville
Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases/HIV Medicine Specialist
Harvard Medical School Faculty
Somerville, MA
Specialty: Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases
elisamdfacp@gmail.com
Ellen J. Gelles, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine, Case School of Medicine
Director of Medical Informatics, Provider User Experience
MetroHealth
Shaker Heights, OH
Specialty: Internal Medicine
egelles@metrohealth.org
Ross W. Hilliard, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Brown University
Providence, RI
Specialties: Internal Medicine, Medical Informatics
ross_hilliard@brown.edu
Sharath Kharidi, MD
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Acute Care
Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
ChristianaCare
West Chester, PA
Specialty: Internal Medicine
sharath.kharidi@gmail.com
Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA
Associate Medical Director of Population Health
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Specialties: Internal Medicine, Primary Care
lrotenstein@bwh.harvard.edu
Matthew Sakumoto, MD
Virtual-First Primary Care and Informatics Physician Champion
Sutter Health West Bay Medical Group Clinical Intelligence Lead, Clear Step
San Francisco, CA
Specialties: Internal Medicine, Medical Informatics
matthew.sakumoto@ucsf.edu
Lipika Samal, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Specialty: Internal Medicine
lsamal@bwh.harvard.edu
John J. Whyte, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
WebMD
Great Falls, VA
Specialty: Internal Medicine
jwhyte@webmd.net
Isaure Hostetter, MD (CRFM)
San Jose, CA
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Isaure.hostetter@gmail.com
Megan D. Hiles, MD, FACP (CECP)
Clinical Assistant Professor, General & Hospital Medicine
The University of Kansas Medical School
Mission Hills, KS
Specialty: Internal Medicine
meganh1630@gmail.com
Staff Liaison: Nadia Daneshvar, ndaneshvar@acponline.org