Dr. Ajay Dharod serves on the Advocate Health Medical Informatics leadership team and as faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. His qualifications have provided a range of expertise: developing EHR tools that facilitate research, enhanced workflow, population management, quality improvement, clinical decision support, principles of data safety, interoperability, and the challenges of conducting research from EHR-derived data. Highlights include: background in Electrical and Computer Engineering; a track-record of research, innovation and teaching excellence awards; creation, development and implementation of EHR-based applied informatics interventions and EHR-integrated digital health application through interprofessional enterprise-wide collaboration.

Dr. Dharod plays a central role in several extramurally funded grants and operational IT implementations. He created and directs a resident-focused educational informatics mentorship program. Dr. Dharod holds board certification in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics with maintenance of an active clinical practice in the inpatient and outpatient domains as a General Internal Medicine faculty physician. In his spare time, Dr. Dharod enjoys remaining physically and cognitively active through biking on local trails, tennis, wakeboarding, yoga practice, and chess.

Dr. Dharod’s career goal is to improve the health of patients, families and communities through the development, implementation, and effective evaluation of innovative applied clinical informatics interventions. He believes that the down-stream return on investment for educating future generations of clinicians, scholars and informaticists will have the most profound impact on healthcare and our society.