Julia Adler-Milstein

Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research. She is a leading researcher in health IT policy with a specific focus on electronic health records and interoperability. She has examined policies and organizational strategies that enable effective use of electronic health records and promote interoperability. She is also an expert in EHR audit log data and its application to studying clinician behavior. Her research identifies obstacles to progress and ways to overcome them and is used by researchers, health systems, and policymakers.

Julia has published over 100 influential papers, has testified before the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, has been named one of the top 10 influential women in health IT, and has won numerous awards, including the New Investigator Award from the American Medical Informatics Association and the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth. She has served on an array of influential committees and boards, including the NHS National Advisory Group on Health Information Technology, the Health Care Advisory Board for Politico, and the Interoperability Committee of the National Quality Forum. Her private sector experience includes advising numerous health IT companies and time as a consultant at Accenture.

Julia holds a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard and spent six years on the faculty at University of Michigan prior to joining the University of California San Francisco as a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the inaugural director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research.