Russ Cucina, MD, MS
VP, Chief Health Info Officer
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Chancellor/EVC/FAS
Dr Cucina is the Chief Health Information Officer and Vice President for Genetic and Genomic Services for the UCSF Health System, and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine.
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In addition to his clinical practice, he is responsible for UCSF Health’s analytics, software, and information infrastructure to advance the missions of UCSF and its partners, and the executive leadership of UCSF Health's genetics and genomics laboratories, patient and provider services, information technologies, and strategic partnerships.
Awards
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- Distinguished Paper Award (senior author), American Medical Informatics Association, 2010
- The AMDIS Award for excellence in applied clinical informatics, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, 2010
- Health Care Leadership Fellow, The California Health Care Foundation, 2008
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
- MS Biomedical Informatics Stanford University 2004
- Board Certification Internal Medicine Stanford University 2001
- MD Medicine University of California, Davis, School of Medicine 1998
- AB with Honor and High Distinction Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley 1994
Websites
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- @@RussCucina on Twitter (twitter.com)
- SlideShare (slideshare.net)
- UCSF Health Informatics (healthinformatics.ucsf.edu)
Publications (15)
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Mitral Valve InsufficiencyEnterocolitis, PseudomembranousHypoglycemic AgentsElectronic Health RecordsTelemetryUnified Medical Language SystemCross InfectionUnnecessary ProceduresInformation Storage and RetrievalMedical Records Systems, ComputerizedRadiology Information SystemsInsulinPulmonary EdemaMedical Order Entry SystemsNatural Language Processing
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Using Spatial and Temporal Mapping to Identify Nosocomial Disease Transmission of Clostridium difficile.
JAMA internal medicine 2017 Murray SG, Yim JWL, Croci R, Rajkomar A, Schmajuk G, Khanna R, Cucina RJ -
Automating Measurement of Trainee Work Hours.
Journal of hospital medicine 2021 Soleimani H, Adler-Milstein J, Cucina RJ, Murray SG -
Randomized Controlled Trials of Electronic Health Record Interventions: Design, Conduct, and Reporting Considerations.
Annals of internal medicine 2020 Pletcher MJ, Flaherman V, Najafi N, Patel S, Rushakoff RJ, Hoffman A, Robinson A, Cucina RJ, McCulloch CE, Gonzales R, Auerbach A -
Effectiveness of a Best Practice Alert to Reduce Telemetry Orders-Reply.
JAMA internal medicine 2019 Najafi N, Cucina R, Khanna R -
Assessment of a Targeted Electronic Health Record Intervention to Reduce Telemetry Duration: A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA internal medicine 2019 Najafi N, Cucina R, Pierre B, Khanna R
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An analysis of the usability of inpatient insulin ordering in three computerized provider order entry systems.
Journal of diabetes science and technology 2011 Neinstein A, Cucina R -
Mitral regurgitation and pulmonary edema.
Journal of general internal medicine 2011 Shah AD, Foster E, Cucina RJ -
Addressing the business of discharge: building a case for an electronic discharge summary.
Journal of hospital medicine 2010 Mourad M, Cucina R, Ramanathan R, Vidyarthi AR -
Ontology mapping and data discovery for the translational investigator.
Summit on translational bioinformatics 2010 Wynden R, Weiner MG, Sim I, Gabriel D, Casale M, Carini S, Hastings S, Ervin D, Tu S, Gennari JH, Anderson N, Mobed K, Lakshminarayanan P, Massary M, Cucina RJ -
Design and implementation of an inpatient physician documentation system using off-the-shelf components.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2007 Cucina RJ, Bokser SJ, Carter JT, McLaren KM, Blum MS -
UCare navigator: A dynamic guide to the hybrid electronic and paper medical record in transition.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2007 Bokser SJ, Cucina RJ, Love JS, Blum MS -
SynopSIS: integrating physician sign-out with the electronic medical record.
Journal of hospital medicine 2007 Sarkar U, Carter JT, Omachi TA, Vidyarthi AR, Cucina R, Bokser S, van Eaton E, Blum M -
Improved identification of noun phrases in clinical radiology reports using a high-performance statistical natural language parser augmented with the UMLS specialist lexicon.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2005 Huang Y, Lowe HJ, Klein D, Cucina RJ -
Empirical formulation of a generic query set for clinical information retrieval systems.
Studies in health technology and informatics 2001 Cucina RJ, Shah MK, Berrios DC, Fagan LM -
Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp
Information Retrieval Using UMLS-based Structured Queries 2001 Fagan LM, Berrios DC, Chan A, Cucina RJ, Datta A, Shah M, Surendran S