Dr. Eric Cheng has been appointed chief medical informatics officer for UCLA Health Sciences, a position he has held on an interim basis since June 2015. He will provide strategic and tactical leadership to technology efforts in support of UCLA Health enterprise medical and physician quality, practice and efficiency objectives.
Cheng leads the Health Information Management Systems, Meaningful Use and Regulatory, Clinical Content, Clinical Decision Support, and Physician Informaticist teams within the information services and solutions department. Among the high-profile projects he currently oversees are front-end voice dictation, tap badge sign-in, and the use of health information technology to improve performance on ambulatory and inpatient quality measures.
A faculty member at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA since 2003, Cheng is an associate professor-in-residence in the department of neurology. He began his academic career as a health services researcher with an emphasis on the measurement of quality of care for persons with neurological conditions. He earned his bachelor of science degree in chemistry at Cornell University and his M.D. at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his residency in neurology at UCLA, followed by the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA. He went on to earn a master’s degree from the Department of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health. He is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the Preventive Medicine Subspecialty in Clinical Informatics.