Dr. Chute is founding PI of the eMERGE project at Mayo Clinic, which has pioneered techniques for high-throughput phenotyping from the EMR. He was also PI of the SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects) on Secondary Data Use, and Co-PI on the SE MN Beacon Community for HIT (Health Information Technology) standards-based data exchange, both awards from HHS/ONC. Additionally, Dr. Chute is involved in national and international efforts to define clinical phenotypes and their associated HIT (Health Information Technology) standards. These roles include most pertinently Chair of the ICD (International Classification of Disease) Revision process at WHO for ICD-11 with an emphasis on scientific consensus of clinical phenotype. Related efforts include Chair of the ISO Technical Committee on Health Informatics (TC215), service on, the HL7 Advisory Council and an initial member of the US HIT Standards Committee at HHS/ONC appointed by Secretary Sebelius. Scientifically, Dr. Chute is PI of the Pharmacogenomics Research Network phenotyping vocabulary resource, and is co-PI on the NIH National Center for Biomedical Computing effort within the National Center for Biomedical Ontology.
Education
- MD, Brown University 1982
- AB, Brown University 1977
- MPH, Harvard University 1982
- DrPH, Harvard University 1990
Honors and Awards
1980 CIBA Award for Outstanding Community Service, Brown University Program in Medicine
1980 Arnold Fellowship for Research Travel Abroad, Brown University
1981 Charles H. Smith Fellowship, Harvard University
1998 Homer Warner Award (AMIA Annual Symposium) Most Outstanding Contrib. [Senior co-author]
2002 President’s Award, American Medical Informatics Association
2015 President Elect, American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)
