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
One-year, renewable up to three times for a total of four years, unless additional time is approved by the Chair, BOR.
2022-23 Members
Deepti Pandita, MBBS, FACP, FAMIA, Chair
Chief Health Information Officer
Hennepin Healthcare
Plymouth, MN
Specialty: Internal Medicine
deepti.pandita@hcmed.org
Parag H. Mehta, MD, MACP, Vice Chair (Governor)
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
Elisa I. Choi, MD, FACP, FIDSA (Chair, Board of Governors)
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
Yul D. Ejnes, MD, MACP
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Scituate, RI
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Yul_Ejnes@brown.edu
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
Rebecca B. Hemphill, MD, FACP (Governor)
Chief Medical Information Officer,
MaineHealth
Falmouth, ME
Specialty: Internal Medicine
hemphr@mmc.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
Matthew Sakumoto, MD
Virtual-First Primary Care and Informatics Physician Champion, Sutter Health West Bay Medical Group Clinical Intelligence Lead,
ClearStep
San Francisco, CA
Specialties: Internal Medicine, Medical Informatics
matthew.sakumoto@ucsf.edu
Lisa Rotenstein, MD
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
Lipika Samal, MD
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
Joshua Boster, MD (CRFM)
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellow, Brooke Army Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services
University of Health Sciences
Fort Sam, Houston, TX 78234
josh.boster@gmail.com
Luis W. Dominguez, MD, MPH (CECP)
Course Director, Patients Populations & Systems, GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Innovative Practice and Clinical Informatics, Lead, GW Immediate and Primary Care
Washington, D.C.
L.W.Dominguez@gmail.com
Staff Liaison: Nadia Daneshvar, ndaneshvar@acponline.org