Robert Jenders

Robert A. Jenders, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, FHL7®, FAMIA, is professor of medicine and senior associate director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles as well as professor of medicine and co-director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Charles Drew University. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Marquette University; completed his MD degree and did his medical residency at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison; earned a master’s degree in computer science at Northeastern University; and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board-certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics. Outside of his home institutions, Dr. Jenders has served since 1998 as co‐chair of the clinical decision support work group of Health Level Seven International. He chairs the Health Information Technology Research study section of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He is a co‐author of Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide, with successive editions named Book of the Year by HIMSS in 2005 and 2012. He has been a member of the scientific program committees of the major scientific meetings of biomedical informatics in the U.S., particularly AMIA. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computers in Healthcare. He serves as a reviewer for major journals in the discipline of biomedical informatics, and he has published in numerous journals and conference proceedings.