Russell Leftwich, MD, FAMIA

Russell Leftwich, MD is Senior Clinical Advisor for Interoperability, InterSystems Corporation, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, and Adjunct faculty School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University. He is founder of the HL7 Learning Health Systems Workgroup and a Co-chair of the HL7 Clinical Interoperability Council WG. He serves on the HL7 Technical Steering Committee. He has been an organizer of the HL7 FHIR Clinician Connectathon series, Clinicians on FHIR and has been one of the trio responsible for exporting this activity as an educational workshop to over 50 national and international conferences and university programs. Prior to his current position he served as CMIO for the state of Tennessee Office of eHealth. His background also includes two decades in internal medicine practice as Clinical Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Leftwich is board certified in Internal Medicine, Allergy/Immunology, and Clinical Informatics. He is a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, and the American College of Chest Physicians.