Malone Center affiliate Christopher G. Chute is among the 100 scholars newly elected to the National Academy of Medicine, announced this week during the NAM’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
An independent organization of leading professionals from multiple scientific fields including health, medicine, and the natural, social, and behavioral sciences, the NAM serves alongside the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering to provide objective advice for the nation and international scientific communities.
Membership in the NAM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Since the NAM’s founding in 1970, the work and recommendations of its members have shaped health research, practice, and policies that improve health and health outcomes worldwide. New members are elected by current members through a selective process that recognizes people who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health. The NAM currently has more than 2,400 members.
Christopher G. Chute is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics; he also has primary faculty appointments in the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing. He is the chief research information officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine, deputy director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Johns Hopkins, co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Data Trust’s research subcouncil, and head of the biomedical informatics and data science section in the Division of General Internal Medicine.
The NAM has recognized Chute for his work on how clinical data is represented to support data inferencing and discovery science in the learning health system, focusing on ontologies, classifications and real-world data. He chaired the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases’ 11 revision, which transformed the century-old system to support data science, and he co-leads many large-scale national repositories of electronic health record data to advance outcomes research. His work has led to many discoveries that have changed clinical practice. Chute joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2015.