Dr. Suresh is responsible for and provides leadership in the planning, development and implementation of strategic and tactical clinical information systems at UPMC. He oversees the system’s EHRs, advanced analytics initiatives, consumer-patient portal and telehealth services. He also provides physician leadership using clinical data to monitor variations in care and best practices, leads his teams in providing customer oriented services and works in collaboration with the hospital’s research community to facilitate implementation and use of informatics. Dr. Suresh is also board-certified in pediatrics and clinical informatics and has 25 years of experience as a pediatric emergency physician and 13 years of experience as an IT executive. In 2015, he gave a TedX talk on “applying big data to little patients.” In 2023, he was named a changemaker in health by HIMSS.
