Kai Zheng, PhD, FACMI Professor of Informatics and Emergency Medicine Chief Research Information Officer, Office of Data and Information Technology Director of Biomedical Informatics, Institute for Clinical and Translational Science Director, Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program University of California, Irvine 6095 Donald Bren Hall Irvine, CA 92697-3440 Phone: (949) 824-6920 Email: kai.zheng@uci.edu Biography Kai Zheng, PhD, FACMI, is Professor of Informatics and Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He also serves as Chief Research Information Officer of the Office of Data and Information Technology, Director of Biomedical Informatics of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, and Director of the Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program. Prior to joining UCI, he was Associate Professor in Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health and Associate Professor in Information in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He was Director of University of Michigan's Health Informatics Program preparing students for careers that will harness the power of information to enhance health and transform individual health and healthcare. Zheng's research draws upon techniques from the fields of information systems and human–computer interaction to study the use of information, communication, and decision technologies in patient care delivery and management. His recent work has focused on topics such as interaction design, workflow and sociotechnical integration, diffusion and evaluation of health IT, and use of computational methods to augment the value of unstructured free-text health data. Zheng received his PhD degree in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. He was the recipient of the 2011 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) New Investigator Award that recognizes early informatics contributions and significant scholarly achievements. He was elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI) in 2018. From 2019 to 2021, he served as Chair of AMIA's Clinical Information Systems Working Group.