Christopher Chute, M.D., Dr.Ph.H.

Christopher Chute, M.D., Dr.Ph.H. (EPID ’88), has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. He was recognized 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 ICD-11 Revision at the World Health Organization, which transformed the century-old system to support data science. He co-leads many large-scale national repositories of electronic health record data to advance outcomes research.  

Dr. Chute joined Mayo Clinic in 1988 and founded what became the Division of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Health Sciences Research, now Artificial Intelligence and Informatics. At Mayo, Dr. Chute led many large program grants including SHARPn, Beacon, and eMERGE, as well Core lead for CTSA and Pharmacogenomics. He retired from Mayo in 2014 and received the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni award in 2021. Currently Dr. Chute is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics, with primary faculty appointments in the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing.