Dr. Kirkendall serves as CMIO and CIO for both Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and the academic health enterprise of Advocate Health, supporting the missions of the clinical health system as well as the research and academic enterprise of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He also serves as deputy director of the Wake Forest Center for Healthcare Innovation, where he utilizes informatics tools to rapidly translate discoveries into a growing clinical enterprise, ultimately bringing about increased care quality, safety and cost-effectiveness. His research focuses on using health IT to maximize patient safety and quality, provider efficiency, data management, novel application and software development, and emerging technologies, with specialization in applied clinical decision support and digital health innovation. His efforts are sustained by a continuous stream of funding from federal and private sources. Prior to joining Wake Forest in 2018, Dr. Kirkendall served as associate CMIO at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where he oversaw the design, implementation and optimization of the EHR and associated technologies. He built a broad foundation across operations, research, education, innovation and administration that informs his uniquely comprehensive approach to health system informatics leadership today.
