Genevieve B. Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD

Genevieve Melton-Meaux is a Professor of Surgery, Director for the Center for Learning Health System Sciences, and Core Faculty in the Institute for Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota (U of M). She is a practicing colorectal surgeon with interests in colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, minimally invasive techniques, and individualized treatment plans for complex patients. She serves as the Chief Analytics and Care Innovation Officer for M Health Fairview where she leads its Clinical Variation Reduction program promoting appropriate evidence-based care, enterprise data analytics, and informatics including Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and Health IT optimization and innovation. Her research interests include clinical colorectal surgery, improving note usage in EHRs, evaluating technology solutions in practice, clinical natural language processing (NLP), and improving surgical care with informatics. She serves as the UMN Associate Director for the Clinical NLP-IE Research Group and nationally as President of the American College of Medical Informatics and as a Board Member for the American Medical Informatics Association.

• Outstanding Resident Award, Johns Hopkins University (2002)
• Core Values in Practice Award, Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery (2007)
• KIWI (Keeping Intestines Well-Inspected) Award, Cleveland Clinic Department of Colorectal Surgery (2008)
• Manuscript Winner, American Medical Informatics Association Distinguished Paper Award (2011)
• Young Investigator Award, University of Minnesota Medical School (2013)
• Physician of the Year, Minnesota/Dakotas Chapter, Crohn’s Colitis Foundation of America (2013)
• "Best Doctors for Women," Minnesota Monthly Magazine (2011-2014)
• Clinical Research and Innovation Award, University of Minnesota Medical Center Annual Staff Awards (2016)
• "Best Doctors," Minnesota Monthly Magazine (2014-2018)
• Mpls.St.Paul Magazine "Top Doctor" (2016-2018)

Funded Research

• Discovery and Visualization of New Information from Clinical Reports
• Natural Language Processing for Clinical and Translational Research
• Leveraging the EHR to Collect and Analyze Social, Behavioral & Familial Factors
• University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)

Research Interests

• Biomedical informatics
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Colon and rectal cancer

Please see MyBibliography for a list of publications.