John Loonsk, MD

Dr. Loonsk received his bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences from Johns Hopkins, and his MD from SUNY Buffalo. He served as director of academic computing at his alma mater in Buffalo, then joined the faculty of the Division of Medical Computing and Informatics in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine. From UNC he moved in 1999 to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where he was associate director for informatics and director of information resources management. At CDC he led the Public Health Information Network initiative and the Biosense biosurveillance program. In 2005 he joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in Washington DC, where he is director of Interoperability and Standards. At the Office of the National Coordinator, John leads the National Health Information Network initiative, runs the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel or HITS-P, leads the development of use cases, and manages the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. His election to the College recognizes these sustained contributions to informatics and to the nation.