Christopher G. Chute, M.D., Dr. P.H.

Christopher Chute, M.D., established the Division of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo Clinic, overseeing a program of applied research and development focusing upon clinical nd genomic data sources, management, standardization, and interpretation. He was division chair for 20 years, and is currently section head for medical informatics.

His research focus is in the domain of biomedical terminology and ontology, with a long-standing emphasis upon scalable terminology services that can be used across biology and medicine. This work has extended into high-throughput disease phenotyping methods using electronic health records.

Dr. Chute is principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on a broad portfolio of federal grants, including the NHGRI funded eMERGE on high-throughput clinical phenotyping, NIGMS funded Ontology Network Resource (PHONT) within the Pharmacogenomics Research Network, ONC funded SHARP grant on Secondary Data Use , the NCI funded LexEVS for Enterprise Vocabulary Services, the NCI funded National Vocabulary Knowledge Center, the NCRR funded Biomedical Informatics Core within Mayo Clinic's CTSA, the NHGRI funded National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) and the ONC funded Beacon grant on community health information exchange.

To make informatics principles truly applicable across the coalescing communities of biological research and medical practice, a strong engagement must be made with standards for biohealth data interchange and interoperability. A partial list of academic standards and NIH review activities Dr. Chute has undertaken includes:

Dr. Chute is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and is an elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Epidemiology, and the American College of Medical Informatics.