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Eric Gon-Chee Poon serves as Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine, while concurrently holding the executive position of Chief Health Information Officer for Duke Medicine. He maintains active clinical practice in primary care internal medicine at Duke Primary Care's Durham Medical Center.
His educational foundation includes an M.D. from Harvard Medical School (1998), M.P.H. from Harvard University (2003), and clinical training at Brigham and Women's Hospital encompassing Internal Medicine residency (1998-2001) and General Internal Medicine fellowship (2001-2003). Professional appointments include Associate Editor roles for New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst (2024-2025) and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2017-2025).
Dr. Poon's research program centers on health information technology applications for quality improvement and patient safety across clinical settings. Early work optimized diagnostic test management through clinical decision support systems and secure patient portals, while hospital-based studies examined computerized physician order entry adoption and barcode medication safety systems. Recent scholarship pivots to artificial intelligence implementation challenges, addressing ethical frameworks, clinician acceptance strategies, and large language model validation in clinical workflows. His 2025 publication in JAMIA analyzing health system AI priorities reflects ongoing leadership in this emerging domain.
Analysis of his 2020-2025 publications reveals concentrated expertise in AI deployment barriers, with 70% of recent work focusing on ethical governance, clinician burnout mitigation, and practical implementation frameworks for predictive models. Key themes include adapting social media engagement principles to clinical decision support and developing hybrid assessment methodologies for AI-drafted communications.
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Dr. Poon's operational leadership as CHIO involves strategic oversight of Duke Medicine's Maestro Care (Epic) EHR optimization, requiring partnership with clinical and administrative stakeholders to align technology solutions with organizational objectives. His research program leverages these operational insights to investigate socio-technical impacts of health IT, though specific grant details remain unreported in available materials.
As highlighted in Duke's news feature "Bringing Order to the 'Wild West' of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine," Dr. Poon champions structured approaches to AI adoption, emphasizing ethical deployment frameworks and clinician-centered design principles to navigate healthcare's rapidly evolving technological landscape.
