Featured Physician Executive: Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD

This week's featured physician executive is Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD. He is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Health Sciences Division, Elsevier.

A practicing physician, Jonathan boasts a wealth of experience in the scientific and technical fields. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard, and a board-certified attending physician in emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), where he has practiced since 1983.

A recognised leader in his field, Jonathan serves on a number of industry and government leadership councils. He is co-chair of the panel responsible for the HHS-sponsored Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support and is a board member of the eHealth Initiative, a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and of HIMSS, and a member of the American Health Information Community Quality Workgroup. He has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers, books, and editorials in the field of medical informatics and healthcare information systems.

Jonathan has also helped to found Healthvision, Inc., an internet healthcare company producing innovative, web-based, clinical information systems and patient/community information sites for large healthcare organisations. He served Healthvision as chief medical officer, responsible for strategic product vision across clinical and patient product areas.