CHARLOTTE, N.C., MARCH 24 — Advocate Health announced Tuesday that Erich Huang, M.D., Ph.D., will serve as vice president of research informatics and chief research information officer for Advocate Health and Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
In this new role, Huang will guide and advance research informatics and data science strategy to support cutting-edge research, foster groundbreaking educational initiatives, drive innovation in clinical trials and population health and build real-world evidence platforms that transform care delivery. In addition, he will support the informatics strategy for Advocate Health’s National Center for Clinical Trials, the enterprise’s clinical trial network – the largest in the nation – that makes participation in health care research part of the standard-of-care. As part of his role, Huang will integrate informatics into education and training programs for students, residents and fellows, fostering thoughtful innovation across our academic community.
“Our ability to advance discovery, education and care depends on strong, well-governed data and informatics infrastructure. Informatics enables the mobilization of data into information that shapes how we learn from the care we deliver and how we translate insight into improved health for the communities we serve,” said Ebony Boulware, M.D., M.P.H., Advocate Health’s chief academic officer and dean of Wake Forest University School of Medicine. “I look forward to Dr. Huang leading this work, guiding a coordinated strategy that strengthens our commitment to our research and clinical priorities.”
Huang comes to Advocate Health from Verily where he served as associate chief clinical officer for technology and informatics, leading enterprise-scale clinical data initiatives and helping health systems improve the quality and extraction of complex clinical data. Prior to that, Huang was chief data officer for quality at Duke Health and the founding co-director of Duke Forge, Duke University’s Center for Health Data Science. He also served as the assistant dean for biomedical informatics.
“I’m eager to embark on this new journey with Advocate Health and Wake Forest University School of Medicine,” Huang said. “I deeply believe in a mission that entwines care and research and how, together, they advance health for our communities.”
As a nationally recognized scholar in research data science, Huang has served as principal investigator and co-investigator on numerous federally funded initiatives, including National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation awards, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine Leadership Consortium.
Huang earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine, and his Ph.D. in Genetics from Duke University. He completed his general surgery residency at Duke, where he served as chief resident.
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