Genevieve B. Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD

Genevieve Melton-Meaux is a Professor of Surgery and Core Faculty of the Institute for Health Informatics at University of Minnesota (UMN). 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 Data and Health Informatics Officer (CDHIO) for Fairview Health Services where she leads efforts to improve the institution’s enterprise EHR and other HIT for patient care and the organization's data and analytics strategy. Her research interests include clinical colorectal surgery, improving note usage in EHRs, evaluating standards in practice, clinical natural language processing (NLP), and improving surgical care with informatics. She co-leads the UMN Clinical NLP-IE Research Group and serves nationally on the Clinical Informatics Subspecialty Board Examination Committee of the American Board of Preventative Medicine, the HITR study section for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Informatics Committee of the American College of Surgeons, Program Committee for the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery, and the Clinical Informatics Specialty Maintenance of Certification Committee 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 (2014-2017)
• Mpls.St.Paul Magazine "Top Doctor" (2016-2017)

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.