Christopher G. Chute was elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University faculty members Christopher G. Chute and Jeffrey D. Rothstein are among 100 scholars newly elected to the National Academy of Medicine, announced today during the NAM’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Christopher Chute is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics. He also has primary faculty appointments at the Johns Hopkins schools of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing. He is the chief research information officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine, deputy director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Johns Hopkins, co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Data Trust’s research subcouncil, and head of the biomedical informatics and data science section in the Division of General Internal Medicine.

The NAM has recognized Chute for his work on how clinical data is represented to support data inferencing and discovery science in the learning health system, focusing on ontologies, classifications and real-world data. He chaired the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases’ 11 revision, which transformed the century-old system to support data science, and he co-leads many large-scale national repositories of electronic health record data to advance outcomes research. His work has led to many discoveries that have changed clinical practice. Chute joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2015.