Sheri Tejedor is Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at Emory University School of Medicine. She also serves as a Medical Informatics Advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she advises the Surveillance Branch on informatics and quality measurement at the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, focusing on electronic quality measures for public health use.
A practicing internist/hospitalist for 20 years, Sheri is an informatics and analytics IT leader with operational experience in complex health systems. She served as Chief Research Information Officer at Emory University School of Medicine and Medical Director of Analytics and Emory Healthcare’s Clinical Data Warehouse.
Sheri was the first hospitalist/clinical informaticist voting member of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), the federal advisory committee that sets the national guidelines for infection prevention. She lectures nationally and has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications on healthcare-acquired infections, over-use of invasive devices and clinical informatics for public reporting.
Bruce Douglas is Program Director for the Healthcare Data and Analytics Association (HDAA), a professional group with 4,500 members representing nearly 1,000 organizations across North America and beyond. He has been active in HDAA for more than a decade, serving on the board, including a three-year term as board President.
Bruce retired in February 2021 after 22 years at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was Director of Data Analytics and Integration. For much of that time, he was the lead designer for Emory’s Clinical Data Warehouse, a platform integrating both clinical and financial information.
He has nearly 40 years of experience in IT in a variety of roles, from resource and project management to data modeling, ETL (extract, transform and load) design, business intelligence architecture and end-user training.
Prior to his time at Emory, Bruce was a software developer with BellSouth, where he helped design a financial data warehouse and the company’s activity-based costing application. He also spent two years as a journalist with United Press International.
During Sheri and Bruce’s Healthcare Analytics 101 talk, attendees will learn about traditional data sources and then where leading-edge organizations are going, tools for managing unstructured data, data governance and issues both in equity and ethics of healthcare data, and the good and bad of data visualization.
