Blake Lesselroth, MD, MBI
ice-Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Dr. Lesselroth is the Vice-Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine. Prior to joining the OU-TU School of Community Medicine in 2019, Dr. Lesselroth was a faculty member and teaching-hospitalist with the Portland VA Department of Hospital and Specialty Medicine, the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) Department of General Medicine, and the OHSU Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology. He was also VA Site Director for one of the first ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics Post-doctoral training fellowships. Dr. Lesselroth joined the Medical Informatics faculty at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa (UO-TU) School of Community Medicine in 2019. He is also adjunct faculty at the University of Victoria, British Columbia School of Health Information Science. In his current role, Dr. Lesselroth manages a portfolio consisting of user experience research, medical informatics education, and IT service delivery. He is co-director of the Medical Informatics elective and selective, co-director of Student Academy, and co-director of the Health Systems Science in Practice course. His areas of expertise include medical decision-making, quality improvement, human-computer interactions, user experience evaluation methods, telemedicine, and implementation science.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

This presentation addresses the selected theme and subtheme in that it is a description of developing a certificate program targeting faculty, staff, and other educators in the colleges and schools within OU across all three campuses. This includes medicine, social work, pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health administration, public health, audiology, dentistry, nutritional sciences, speech language pathology, nursing, physicians assistants, and imaging technology (radiation sciences, nuclear medicine, sonography). The certificate program is targeting faculty and staff at any…