Genevieve Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD

Genevieve Melton-Meaux serves as Professor of Surgery, Senior Associate Dean of Health Informatics and Data Science, Director for the Center for Learning Health System Sciences, and Core Faculty in the Institute for Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota. She serves as the Chief Health Informatics and AI Officer for M Health Fairview leading informatics including Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and Health IT optimization and Fairview's AI program. As a colorectal surgeon, she has interests in colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, minimally invasive techniques, individualized treatment plans for complex patients, and bringing innovative care models and solutions to improve patient care.

Her research interests include surgical informatics, improving note usage in EHRs, evaluating technology solutions in practice, clinical colorectal surgery, advancing learning health system capabilities and the generation of real world evidence, and clinical natural language processing (NLP). At the University of Minnesota, she serves on the Executive Leadership Team of the University's Data Science Initiative, Associate Director for the Clinical NLP Research Group, and Program Director for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship. National leadership includes serving as Immediate Past-President of the American College of Medical Informatics and President of the American Medical Informatics Association.