Lynn Vogel, PhD, FHIMSS, FCHIME

Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
 

Lynn Harold Vogel, PhD, is vice president and chief information officer at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (UT-MDACC) in Houston, a $4B+ clinical, research and teaching institution that is the world’s largest and consistently one of the highest-rated facilities devoted to the care and cure of cancer. Under Dr. Vogel’s leadership, MD Anderson was named to the CIO 100 list of the most innovative IT organizations in 2006, to the top 100 of InformationWeek’s Top 500, has been honored twice as one of the top 25 connected healthcare facilities by Health Imaging and IT and named the inaugural recipient of the Transformation Leadership Award, jointly by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Center for Healthcare Transformation. In 2007, Dr. Vogel was named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders, and was awarded one of 10 “Best in Class” designations for his work in bridging clinical care and research through information technology. This year, MDACC was again honored by Computerworld as a leader in the healthcare industry by designation as a Computerworld Laurate and awarding the institution its prestigious 21st Century Achievement Award in Healthcare.

Dr. Vogel is also associate professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at UT-MDACC, and adjunct professor of Management at The University of Texas School of Public Health. During his almost 30-year career, Dr. Vogel has held faculty appointments at the University of Chicago, City University of New York and Columbia University. He has led IT organizations at the University of Chicago Hospitals, Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Healthcare in New York City. At UT-MDACC, Dr. Vogel serves as the senior IT executive, managing a 700+ person IT division, and is leading the in-house development of UT-MDACC’s electronic medical record with a major focus on the integration of research and clinical data. He also serves as a faculty member for the CHIME CIO Boot Camp experience.

Dr. Vogel is a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences, and has authored numerous articles on topics such as identifying returns from healthcare information technology investments, implications of personalized medicine for information technology, governance strategies for IT investment decisions and information technology strategy and management.

Dr. Vogel’s education at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral level was completed at the University of Chicago. He is a fellow, charter member and currently trustee of CHIME, a member and fellow of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).