Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH, MPH, is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics, Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing at Johns Hopkins University, and Chief Research Information Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Classifications, Terminologies and Standards. Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, he earned his AB in English and MD from Brown University in 1977 and 1982, MPH from Harvard University in 1982, and DrPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Harvard in 1990, following an internal medicine residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Previously, he founded and chaired the Division of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo Clinic from 1988 to 2008, retiring as Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Informatics in 2014.

Dr. Chute's research focuses on representing clinical information for analyses such as comparative effectiveness, decision support, and translational research, with emphasis on semantic consistency, harmonized information models, ontology, classifying dysfunctional phenotypes, and harmonizing electronic health records for learning health systems. He has led major initiatives including the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), NCATS Translator TransMed grant, and chaired the WHO ICD-11 Revision Steering Group and ISO Technical Committee 215 on Health Informatics. His key publications include the book 'Cancer Informatics: Essential Technologies for Clinical Trials' (2002), 'Mayo clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES): architecture, component evaluation and applications' (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2010; 2560 citations), 'Toward precision medicine: building a knowledge network for biomedical research and a new taxonomy of disease' (2011; 1448 citations), and 'Classification, Ontology, and Precision Medicine' (New England Journal of Medicine, 2018). With over 52,000 citations, he has shaped biomedical terminologies and standards. Honors include election to the National Academy of Medicine (2024), Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence (2025), William W. Stead Award (2024), President's Award from AMIA (2002), and presidencies in ACMI. He has contributed to editorial boards including JAMIA and numerous HIT standards committees.

Professional Email: chute@jhu.edu