Doug B. Fridsma, MD, PhD, FACMI

Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of AMIA, and former Chief Science Officer for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). 

Currently, Dr. Fridsma is the CMIO and co-founder of Health Universe, an innovation platform aimed at increasing provider-driven innovation in a secure, compliant way. 

In prior roles, Dr. Fridsma was the president and CEO of AMIA (the American Medical Informatics Association), where he led the effort to define the field of clinical and health informatics through a systematic review of the skills knowledge, and competencies for informatics professionals. This work, published in JAMIA, was used to update the clinical informatics medical board specialty, the accreditation standards for clinical fellowships, and the development of a new certification for nurses and other non-board eligible health informatics professionals. 

Dr. Fridsma served as the Chief Science Officer for ONC during the Obama administration, with key responsibilities for the portfolio of technical resources needed to support the meaningful use program and health information technology for the United States. While at ONC, he accelerated the development of standards through the standards and interoperability framework, a novel crowd-sourced approach to government engagement. He was the ONC champion of the JASON report that now serves as the foundation for API-based information exchange across the Health IT industry and was the key ONC liaison to workforce development, the innovation community, and international HIT collaborations.

Dr. Fridsma has held academic appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and Mayo Clinic, and had a part-time clinical practice at the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. He has served as a board member of SNOMED International, HL7, and the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) where he was instrumental in developing standards for real-world evidence that bridge clinical care and clinical research. He currently serves as the chairman of the board of directors for the Center for New Data, a non-profit organization he helped to found that is dedicated to using novel forms of data to support public policy and social good. 

He is a graduate of the University of Michigan LSA Inteflex program and the University of Michigan Medical School (1990) and completed a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University (2003).