Christopher G. Chute, DrPH, MD, MPH
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- English
Gender
MaleJohns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Christopher G. Chute
Professional Titles
- Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics
- Chief Research Information Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Deputy Director, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
- Co-Chair, Research Subcouncil of Johns Hopkins Data Trust
Primary Academic Title
Professor of Medicine
Background
Dr. Chute is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics, Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing at Johns Hopkins University, and Chief Research Information Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. He is also Deputy Director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Classifications, Terminologies and Standards. He received his undergraduate and medical training at Brown University, internal medicine residency at Dartmouth, and doctoral training in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Harvard. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Epidemiology, HL7, the American Medical Informatics Association, and the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), as well as a Founding Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics; he was president of ACMI 2017-18. He became a distinguished Fellow of ACMI in 2022. He is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians and the National Academy of Medicine. He received the highest distinction in biomedical informatics, the Morris Collen Award of Excellence from ACMI in 2025.
His career has focused on how we can represent clinical information to support analyses and inferencing, including comparative effectiveness analyses, decision support, best evidence discovery, and translational research. He has had a deep interest in the semantic consistency of health data, harmonized information models, and ontology. His current research focuses on how we classify dysfunctional phenotypes (disease) and the harmonization and rendering of real-world clinical data including electronic health records to support a learning health system. He became founding Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo Clinic in 1988, retiring from Mayo in 2014, where he remains an emeritus Professor of Biomedical Informatics. He is presently a PI on a spectrum of high-profile informatics grants from NIH spanning translational science including co-lead on the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). He has been active on many HIT standards efforts and chaired ISO Technical Committee 215 on Health Informatics and chaired the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Disease Revision (ICD-11).
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Research Interests
Medical concept representation; electronic health records; Real World Evidence; observational research
Google Scholar - Publications
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PubMed - Publications
Honors
- Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence, American College of Medical Informatics 2025
- William W. Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association 2024
- HHS Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service (with N3C) 2023
- Distinguished Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics 2022
- FedHealthIT Innovation Award (with N3C) 2022
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Mayo Clinic, 2021
- President Elect, President, Past President, American College of Medical Informatics, 2015-2021
- President's Award, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2002
- Homer Warner Award (joint), American Medical Informatics Association, 1998
- Charles H. Smith Fellowship, Harvard University, 1981
- CIBA Award for Outstanding Community Service, Brown University Program in Medicine, 1981
- Arnold Fellowship for Research Travel Abroad, Brown University, 1980
Memberships
- Fellow, American College of Physicians 1987
- Fellow, American College of Epidemiology 1988
- Elected Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics 1995
- Elected Fellow, HL7 (Health Level 7) 2017
- Inaugural Elected Fellow, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics 2017
- Inaugural Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association 2018
- Elected Member, Association of American Physicians 2022
- Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine, of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2024
Professional Activities
- Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Classifications, Terminologies and Standards
- Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- International Classification of Disease (ICD), World Health Organization, Co-Chair, Medical Scientific Advisory Committee, 2016-
- ISO Technical Committee on Health Informatics, Chair, 2010-2015
- World Health Organization, Chair, ICD-11 Revision Steering Group, 2007-2016
Expertise
Education
- Harvard University, DrPH, 1985
- Harvard University, M.P.H., 1982
- Brown University, M.D., 1982
- Brown University, A.B., 1977