Anita Murcko, MD, MACP, FAMIA

I am a clinical associate professor of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University (ASU), a Mayo Clinic School of Medicine faculty member and site director for Clinical Informatics Fellowship Programs. I earned my BS (chemistry) and MD from the University of Pittsburgh and completed an internal medicine residency at Indiana University. I am a Master in American College of Physicians (MACP), fellow in the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA) and fellow at the Center for Health Information and Research, FCHIR, ASU. I practiced and taught internal medicine in downtown Phoenix for over 25 years and served as a physician executive in the public and private sectors, including chief medical officer for the federally recognized quality improvement organization, Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), and medical director for AHCCCS, Arizona’s Medicaid agency. I served as clinical lead for the $12M Medicaid Transformation Grant creating Arizona’s first health information exchange, e-prescribing and electronic health record programs. My informatics research area is clinical decision support, with a focus on enabling health record sharing for integrated care, substance use disorder modeling and applied pharmacy informatics. I am the grateful recipient of numerous awards for my work in medicine, policy, teaching and informatics, most recently the Health Current ACHIEVE Award for lifetime contributions to e-health and health information exchange and Mastership in the American College of Physicians for a distinguished career combining excellence in care, teaching, research and leadership. With my husband, also an MD, I enjoy singing, non-profit board leadership, travel, and the great outdoors.