Location

Seattle, WA

Organization

State of Washington, Dept of Health

Title

Chief Informatics Officer

What are your domains of INTEREST?

Human Services, Education, Public Health, Public Safety, Health Information Technology, Emergency Services

What are your domains of EXPERTISE?

Public Health, Health Information Technology

Do you have any OTHER domains of expertise?

Informatics

Share with us a short bio of yourself.

Bryant Thomas Karras MD, Chief Informatics Officer and Senior Epi/Informatician at State of Washington, Department of Health. His current position is in the Office of the State Health Officer / Chief Science Officer, where he leads the agencies interoperability roadmap work. He is a Physician, an Engineer and Public Health Informatician. He has a technical, business process, and problem-solving approach with a background in Internal Medicine/Chief Resident (University of Wisconsin), Biomedical Engineering (University of California San Diego), and Medical Informatics (Yale). As Informatics Officer for the state’s Public Health agency, he leads the DOH cross divisional efforts and strategy for public health data interoperability. Bryant is passionate about improving public health’s use of Health Information Technology in Washington state, helping Public Health Agencies elsewhere with informatics issues for example the PHII Common Ground project. www.doh.wa.gov/HealthIT "a healthy dose of information"

Would you like to join Social Determinants Group?

Yes

Would you like to join Opioid Epidemic Group?

Yes