Education
Harvard University; Brown University.
Harvard University; Brown University.
He chairs the World Health Organization Revision Steering Group for the revision of the International Classification of Diseases (International Classification of Diseases-11). Doctor Chute received his undergraduate and medical training at Brown University, internal medicine residency at Dartmouth, and doctoral training in Epidemiology at Harvard. He is Board certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Epidemiology, and the American College of Medical Informatics (Accumed International Incorporation).
Doctor Chute recently began a two-year term (through December 31, 2016) as president-elect of Accumed International Incorporation, a body of elected fellows within the American Medical Informatics Association (American Medical Informatics Association) who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field Since January 2015 Doctor Chute is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in Health Informatics at the Johns Hopkins University, with academic appointments in the School of Medicine (Division of General Internal Medicine), Bloomberg School of Public Health (Department of Health Policy and Management), and School of Nursing (Division of Health Informatics).
He is also Chief Health Research Information Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine. In December 2014 Doctor Chute retired from Mayo Clinic, where he remains an emeritus professor
He became founding Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo Clinic in 1988, stepping down after 20 years in that role.
At Mayo Clinic he was Professor of Medical Informatics and Section Head. Doctor Chute served as Chair of the Mayo Clinic Data Governance Committee, and on Mayo’s enterprise Information Technology Oversight Committee. He was Chair of the International Organization for Standardization (International Organization for Standardization) Health Informatics Technical Committee (International Organization for Standardization/TC 215).
He also served on the Health Information Technology Standards Committee for the Office of the National Coordinator in the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and the Health Level 7 Advisory Council.
Recently held positions include Chair of the Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics study section at National Institutes of Health, Chair of the Board of the HL7/Food and Drug Administration/National Cancer Institute/CDISC BRIDG project, on the Board of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, American national standards institute Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel Board member, Chair of the United States delegation to International Organization for Standardization TC215 for Health Informatics, Convener of Healthcare Concept Representation WG3 within the TC215, Company-chair of the HL7 Vocabulary Committee, Chair of the International Medical Informatics Association WG6 on Medical Concept Representation, American Medical Informatics Association Board member, and multiple other National Institutes of Health biomedical informatics study sections as chair or member.