Joseph L Kannry

Joseph L Kannry, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and holds a dual appointment in IT and Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System. He serves as Lead Technical Informaticist for the EMR Clinical Transformation Group, overseeing enterprise-wide EHR implementations and Clinical Decision Support systems. His work integrates informatics into operational healthcare settings, focusing on usability, mobile health, and genomic integration.

Education: MD from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Residencies in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center.

Research: Specializes in Medical Informatics, including Electronic Medical Records, Clinical Decision Support, and usability evaluation. His research addresses challenges like provider-patient matching, mobile computing in healthcare, and genomic data integration into EHRs.

Awards: Includes the 2013 AMIA Service Award, 2012 Davies Award (HIMSS), and recognition for best paper (2004 Medinfo Congress).

Leadership: Chair of AMIA's Clinical Information System Working Group (2011–2014), contributor to AMIA's Usability Task Force, and member of multiple national committees (e.g., HIMSS, NYS ACP HIT).

Grants: Co-PI of a $1.5M AHRQ grant on Clinical Prediction Rules and investigator on the eMerge2 genomic integration project.