Public Biography
Dr. Peter Winkelstein is a physician executive with extensive experience in medical management, medical informatics ñ including big data and data science ? financial analysis and computer modeling. He serves as the Executive Director of the University at Buffalo (UB) Institute for Healthcare Informatics (IHI), Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) of UBMD, the faculty practice of UB physicians, and as VP and CMIO of Kaleida Health, the largest health care provider in Western New York. The IHI supports big data healthcare research at UB and its partners by providing a secure computing environment, data science and security consulting, and extensive healthcare datasets. The IHI opened in 2012 with funding through portions of $25 million in NYS HEAL grants. The IHI is located in the heart of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and provides a secure data center with a state-of-the-art data repository infrastructure (>1M patient records). The IHI is a principal component of the $50 million NYS Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics (BIG). In his role of CMIO for UBMD, Dr. Winkelstein has operational responsibility for the electronic health record (EHR) for over 500 UB physicians. As VP and CMIO of Kaleida Health, an integrated health system with over 1200 hospital beds, he oversees the Clinical Informatics group and serves as the business owner for the systemís EHR. In addition, he is President of the Kaleida Health Medical/Dental Staff and is a Certified Medical Staff Leader. His particular academic interest is ethical issues in informatics. Dr. Winkelstein is a long-time member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), past chair of the AMIA Ethical, Legal and Social issues Working Group and chair of the AMIA Ethics Committee. He is a Board-certified Pediatrician who continues to practice in inner-city Buffalo, New York.