Christopher G. Chute

Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH, MPH, serves as Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University with joint appointments in the School of Medicine (Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Health Sciences Informatics), Bloomberg School of Public Health (Department of Health Policy and Management), and School of Nursing (Division of Health Informatics). He concurrently holds the position of Chief Health Research Information Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Chute obtained his medical degree from Brown University, completed internal medicine residency at Dartmouth, and earned a doctorate in Epidemiology from Harvard University. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.

His research focuses on biomedical terminologies, health information technology standards, big data analytics in healthcare, and electronic medical record systems. He leads major initiatives including the World Health Organization's ICD-11 revision as Chair of the Revision Steering Group. His work bridges clinical informatics, public health surveillance, and computational approaches to healthcare data.

Analysis of recent publications reveals concentrated research in pandemic informatics, particularly leveraging large-scale EHR data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). Key themes include: long COVID characterization, health disparities in rural populations, AI/ML applications for clinical prediction, antiviral treatment outcomes, and data standardization methodologies.

Scientific Awards and Honors

• Elected to National Academy of Medicine (2024)
• Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (2015)
• President, American College of Medical Informatics (2015-2020)
• Inaugural Fellow, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (2017)
• HL7 Fellow (2017)
• AMIA President's Award (2002)
• IBM Faculty Award (2005)
• Homer Warner Award for Most Outstanding Contribution (1998)

Dr. Chute directs substantial research programs including NIH-funded projects on EHR data reuse, Beacon Community initiatives, LexGrid terminology infrastructure, and clinical-translational informatics. As Chief Research Information Officer, he oversees enterprise data governance and research computing infrastructure at Johns Hopkins Medicine.